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With any number of people expressing a dislike for bell peppers (green being the major offender, red another), and with references to pepperonata sprinkled throughout the forums, why not a dedicated topic?

 

Also, I just made a batch. Simple, classic Italian flavors. Fucking delicious.

 

Get over pepper problems and make this!

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  On 1/30/2023 at 10:55 PM, weinoo said:

Also, I just made a batch. Simple, classic Italian flavors.

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We love peppers.  Use them, all colors, in our salads every second supper.  I've made Pepper Soup a number of times.  And they, of course, end up in all kinds of dishes.

 

I'd never heard of Pepperonata before.  Your recipe, please.

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This recipe for peperonata is fairly classic.  And fairly stolen from this book (acknowledged as such)...

 

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In which it is called "Peppers Roman Style."

 

To know more (than you really need to know), well - why not Serious Eats?

 

It's also spelled pepperonata.

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  On 1/31/2023 at 10:32 PM, weinoo said:

This recipe

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To me it is very unfortunate that the illustration is not in the least in accord with the description of the finished dish. 

"Cover and let cook, stirring and checking occasionally, until the peppers have melted down into very soft, silky stew and the tomatoes have broken down into a thick sauce...."

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Posted
  On 1/31/2023 at 10:32 PM, weinoo said:

This recipe for peperonata is fairly classic.  And fairly stolen from this book (acknowledged as such)...

 

image.png.82d1d2d6b3f500b153190adbe621c3de.png
 

In which it is called "Peppers Roman Style."

 

To know more (than you really need to know), well - why not Serious Eats?

 

It's also spelled pepperonata.

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One question to all - the two recipes vary in one important aspect: the inclusion (or omission) of vinegar. For me, the sweet & sour aspect was always the hallmark of peperonata. In fact - at least in my head - it was was differentiated the dish from the similar French or Spanish vegetable stew ...

 

So: vinegar or no vinegar ?

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  On 2/1/2023 at 8:56 AM, Duvel said:

 

One question to all - the two recipes vary in one important aspect: the inclusion (or omission) of vinegar. For me, the sweet & sour aspect was always the hallmark of peperonata. In fact - at least in my head - it was was differentiated the dish from the similar French or Spanish vegetable stew ...

 

So: vinegar or no vinegar ?

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The standard recipes don't include vinegar, but in some regions (according to the recipes, Abruzzo and Sicily) it's sometimes added, and some recipes mention the option of doing an agrodolce version.

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