Red Peppers Cooked in Pressure Cooker

An oval platter with red peppers, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorn etc

These marinated red peppers cooked in pressure cooker with garlic, peppercorn, bay leaves and more make for a great Mediterranean Meze when served cold. I cooked them in an Instant Pot but any pressure cooker will do.

Course Appetizer, Salad

Cuisine Albanian, Mediterranean

Keyword gogozhare, Meze, red peppers, Red peppers meze, speca gogozhare

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 5

Release pressure 10

Total Time 20

Servings servings

Calories 222kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

Pressure Cooker

Ingredients

2 lbs red peppers
20 garlic cloves I actually add a lot more because I love garlic
1 tbsp peppercorn
1 tbsp salt
0.5 cup white wine vinegar you can use apple cider vinegar too
3 tbsps water
0.5 cup olive oil extra virgin
6 bay leaves

Instructions

Wash and clean the red peppers from seeds. Try to keep the original shape, remove the top carefully.
Place peppers in the pressure cooker. Add vinegar, olive oil, peppercorn, bay leaves, salt, water and garlic. Close the lid.
Set to cook in pressure cooker for about 5 to 7 minutes depending on how soft you like them. Follow instructions for your specific pressure cooker.
I let my instant pot to naturally release the steam for a while then open. Remove the peppers with a slotted spoon then place them on a platter, serve cold on salads or as a topping or meze platters. Add olive oil and more vinegar as needed on top.

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Notes

On nutrition facts the actual values would be lower since you don't consume the oil and vinegar the peppers are cooked in, or you consume just a little bit of that. So keep that in mind when calculating macros per serving as it is an estimate.

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