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I love growing an abundance of various peppers so I can can, freeze and dehydrate them for use through the winter. This week I picked an abundance of hot banana, sweet banana, mammoth jalepenos, big jim, poblano, and anaheim to roast and then freeze.
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I love the smell of roasting peppers so I roasted them in the oven. I lined cookie sheets with aluminum foil for easy cleaning. Then I laid out all the washed peppers on the cookie sheets.
I roasted the pepper at 450 degrees for 20 minutes then flipped the peppers and let them roast for another 20 minutes.
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See how the skins were getting nice roasted brown spots on them? The house smelled wonderfully delicious!
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After another 20 minutes of roasting they were gorgeous and done!
I had so many peppers that I had to do two roastings. This is the second batch.
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I let the peppers cool to the touch. I did not peel the skins from the peppers because I believe the skins help protect the peppers from freezer burn. The skins peel right off when the peppers have thawed. I used my Reynolds Handi-Vack and bags to vacuum seal the peppers in the bags. I put all the same peppers together and put 3 or more in each bag. I don't want to have to many peppers thawed at one time, but there are times that I use large batches in one day.