Freezing Green Peppers

Freezing green peppers is a very simple way to preserve them for the off-season.  I froze mine in two different ways: chopped and whole with the top and seeds removed.  The chopped ones will be great for toppings on pizza and fillings for burritos, pastas, etc.  The whole ones I will use for stuffed green peppers, one of my favorite meals.  I froze enough to make stuffed green peppers for 2 once a month until they're in season again.

FREEZING GREEN PEPPERS
-Peppers
Simply chop the peppers into your desired shape for freezing (squares, strips, rings, halves, whole...).
Boil water in a large pot.
Add peppers and boil for 3 minutes.
Immediately place boiled peppers in an ice bath to stop the cooking process.
Let peppers cool to room temp and dab off any excess moisture.
Place in freezer bags and into your freezer until ready to use.

Wash peppers

Chop peppers

Boil peppers

Drain water from peppers

Ice peppers

Spread on cookie sheet and freeze, then put frozen peppers in a freezer bag

Here are the pictures from freezing the peppers whole with tops and seeds removed, it was the same exact process, just a different shape of pepper:

Boiling the whole peppers

Whole peppers ready for the freezer, once frozen they will be put into freezer bags