In the pantry · 33 uses
bell pepper
Sweetness and water. Raw it is crunch, blistered under a broiler it goes silky and smoky and stops tasting like a salad bar — that char is most of the reason to buy them.
31
dishes and drinks that need it
2
more where it is worth adding
58%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Onion is in 81% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 31
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
- Pimento cheese10m
- Gazpacho15m
- Muhammara15m
- Ropa vieja sandwich15m
- Grilled vegetable sandwich20m
- Lime pepper fish20m
- Menemen20m
- Rajas con crema20m
- Beef and peppers skillet25m
- Escovitch fish25m
- Pepper rice skillet25m
- Piperade25m
- Sausage and peppers roll25m
- Spicy vegetable relish25m
- Lecsó skillet30m
- Moqueca30m
- Pepper shakshuka30m
- Pisto30m
- Sheet-pan sausage and peppers35m
- Shrimp creole35m
- Zucchini pepper stew35m
- Arroz con pollo40m
- Beef stuffed peppers40m
- Chicken pepper skillet40m
- Jollof rice40m
- One-pot sausage rice40m
- Shrimp étouffée40m
- Gemista45m
- Stuffed peppers45m
- Ropa vieja50m
- Chicken and sausage gumbo55m
Worth adding · 2
These work without it. They work better with it.