Re: Roasted Red Peppers

Ingredients

1 lb fresh red peppers (sweet red capsicum peppers)
1/4 cup lemon juice
salt

Procedure

1.Preheat broiler as hot as you can get it. Turn red peppers under the broiler until their skins come up in black bubbles.

Cool the peppers until you can handle them comfortably.

2.Remove the skins, stems, cores, and seeds. (This is messy work. I have tried removing the innards first, before putting the peppers under the broiler, and the result is not so good as this way.)

3.Cut the peppers into finger shapes. Flavor them with fresh lemon juice and salt.

4.Let them sit for several hours, draining off the liquid that forms.

Notes

Serve this at room temperature as a side dish for anything Nicoise or Spanish or Greek or Egyptian.

Or make a meal of them by adding a bowl of yoghurt, a bowl of chopped onion, some black olives, radishes, and pistachios, and lots of warm pita
bread.

Or use it with sautaeed garlic and pitted black olives and a little reduced white wine as a spaghetti sauce.

Roasted peppers are insanely delicious, smooth and unctuous and aromatic,
and yet they contain absolutely no calories. A full-sized red pepper is only 15 calories.