Such a tasty dish Pepero A quick and easy main or side dish made with peppers, potatoes, and eggplant. Try this dish even those who claim they don’t like eggplant will adore it! Although using hot peppers is optional, we recommend trying it:) One of the things Calabria is widely renowned for is its heavy usage of spicy peppers
Ingredients For tasty dish Pepero
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 3 large potatoes cut into large ‘french fries’
- 4 medium eggplant cut into large french fry size strips
- 3 large Sheppard peppers or other sweet peppers cut into
- large chunks or strips
- 3 ripe roma tomatoes, fresh or frozen, chopped
- 1 handful fresh basil leaves
- 2 cloves chopped garlic
- salt to taste
Instructions For tasty dish Pepero
- In a big pan, fry the potatoes until they are cooked through and browned not crunchy like fries.
- Using a slotted spoon, remove from pan so that any leftover oil remains in the pan.
- When sautéing eggplant, allow it to brown before gently turning it over.
- After the eggplant have browned and/or cooked through roughly 6 to 8 minutes remove them.
- Put potatoes aside and add peppers to the leftover oil. If needed, add a little amount of olive oil.
- Peppers should be fried until they blister, then taken out of the pan.
- After 30 seconds of adding garlic to heated oil, add tomatoes.
- After the tomatoes have softened, add the basil and cook for one minute.
- Reintroduce the peppers, eggplant, and potatoes, and stir-fry for five minutes.
- Perfect when served hot with fresh bread, but as delicious cold the following day.
Final words : You may adjust the amount of veggies to suit your preferences. For example, add more peppers if you like them.
Hot peppers are optional.