Easy Sauteed Peppers and Onions

Simple to make sauteed peppers and onions have wonderful caramelized flavors making it a great side dish for any meal. It’s great with fajitas, stuffed with quesadillas or in any casserole dishes!

Why Should You Make Sauteed Bell Peppers Recipe

• Very easy to make and needs minimal ingredients.
• It takes not more than 20 minutes to get those wonderful caramelized flavors.
• The dish is very versatile. You can alter the flavors and spices to your preference.
• This pleasing side dish can be served with so many dishes. It’s great with chicken fajitas, quesadillas or with your chicken and rice meal. Don’t stop there. Serve them with grilled meat, toasted bread, or as pizza toppings!
• Just one serving of this dish is so healthy and packed with nutrients, it sure will fulfill your fiber and Vitamin C intake for the day.
• It’s keto-friendly, vegetarian, vegan and gluten free side dish.

Ingredients Needed

The list of ingredients needed to make sauteed peppers is shown below:

Flavoring Agents: We said this recipe is completely versatile. You have control on what flavors you want to add to the dish. Whatever you add, do not skip garlic. Garlic fragrant in the peppers makes this dish pleasingly delicious!

Red chili flakes adds heat balancing the sweetness from the bell peppers. Adjust the quantity if chili flakes depending on your spice preference. If you don’t want to make it spicy, skip adding chili flakes.

Herbs: Use any herb of your choice. You can use mixed Italian herbs, dried basil or dried oregano, dried thyme.

Seasoning: Use flake sea salt with fresh crushed peppers to taste.

Olive Oil: Using good quality olive oil makes for the taste of the dish.

Red Wine Vinegar: A dash of good quality wine vinegar enhances the flavor and taste of the dish.

How To Saute Peppers And Onions?

1. Slice onions thin.

2. Slice bell peppers into thin strips. Try to slice uniformly sized strips.

3. In a non-stick pan heat olive oil. If using cast iron pan use little extra oil to keep them from burning.

Once oil is hot add thin sliced peppers, onions, dried Italian seasoning, salt and pepper to taste.

Cook’s Tip: I like to dump everything at once and cook until together. Onions and peppers caramelize at the same time. It takes approximately 20 to 25 minutes to cook everything until vegetables are softened and caramelized.

Alternatively you can first caramelize sliced onions for 8 to 9 minutes and then add in peppers and cook to caramelize. It will take about 12 to 14 minutes for peppers to caramelize and soften.

Begin to cook and on medium flame and saute it at regular intervals.

Pro’s Tip: Do not over crowd the pan white you saute peppers. Leave room for space to help move around the sliced peppers white you saute them.

Do in multiple batches if you have to saute the peppers.

4. Once bell peppers begin to soften, add in minced garlic, red wine vinegar and continue to cook for  couple of more minutes on low flame.

5. Once vegetables are tender enough, turn off flame.

Serve hot with fajitas, use it to stuff quesadillas, use it with toasted bread, with grilled chicken. You can use this dish with any meal of your choice.

How Long To Saute Peppers?

Time for peppers to cook will depend on the size of peppers you slice. Try to keep all slices of same size, to help cook peppers evenly.

Note: DO NOT over crowd the pan with peppers. Leave room for moving around to help cook evenly and perfectly.

On a medium flame, sliced peppers will take about roughly 20 minutes to cook perfectly. You want to cook peppers until they are softened and caramelized. Do not burn or blacken the peppers while cooking.

If using cast iron pan, you may want to increase the amount of olive oil added to the pan to prevent it from burning.

During cooking at any time, if peppers begin to burn or stick to the pan and burn, reduce heat and cook on low flame and saute it to prevent it from sticking to the pan.

TRY THESE OTHER SIDE DISHES:

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Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Sauteed Green Beans

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Easy Sauteed Peppers and Onions

Jyothi Rajesh

This simple to make sauteed peppers and onions have wonderful caramelized flavors making it a great side dish for any meal. It’s great with fajitas, stuffed with quesadillas or in any casserole dishes!

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, Side Dish

Cuisine American, Italian

Servings 5 servings

Calories 102

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 3 bell peppers – you can use a mix of colorful peppers yellow, red, green, sliced
• ▢ 2 onions sliced thin
• ▢ 4 cloves garlic minced
• ▢ 2 tablespoon olive oil
• ▢ 2 teaspoon red chili flakes adjust as per spice tolerance levels
• ▢ ¾ tablespoon red wine vinegar
• ▢ Salt and pepper to taste
• ▢ 2 ½ tablespoon mixed Italian herbs can use fresh herbs too

Instructions

 

• First slice bell peppers into thin strips. Try to slice uniformly sized strips.
• In a non-stick pan heat olive oil. If using cast iron pan use little extra oil to keep them from burning.
• Once oil is hot add thin sliced peppers, onions, dried Italian seasoning, salt and pepper to taste.

  Cook’s Tip: I like to dump everything at once and cook until together. Onions and peppers caramelize at the same time. It takes approximately 20 to 25 minutes to cook everything until vegetables are softened and caramelized.

  Alternatively you can first caramelize sliced onions for 8 to 9 minutes and then add in peppers and cook to caramelize. It will take about 12 to 14 minutes for peppers to caramelize and soften.
• Begin to cook and on medium flame and saute it at regular intervals.

  Pro’s Tip: Do not over crowd the pan white you saute peppers. Leave room for space to help move around the sliced peppers white you saute them.
• Do in multiple batches if you have to saute the peppers.
• Once bell peppers begin to soften, add in minced garlic, red wine vinegar and continue to cook for couple of more minutes on low flame.
• Once vegetables are tender enough, turn off flame.
• Serve hot with fajitas, use it to stuff quesadillas, use it with toasted bread, with grilled chicken. You can use this dish with any meal of your choice.

Nutrition

Calories: 102kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 2gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 19mgPotassium: 272mgFiber: 4gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 2515IUVitamin C: 95mgCalcium: 62mgIron: 1mg

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