Hi I’m Robert Nasser from Diner Done. We’ve been doing basic vegetable prep and now we’re going to show you how do dice a bell pepper.
Bell peppers come in different colors if you want to call them that, you’ve got your yellow peppers, red peppers or green peppers. Use any combination of the three to brighten up a meal instead of just using a green bell pepper. As always, make sure that you wash your vegetables well in the cold running water to get any foreign objects, dirt, anything you do not want in your meal off before you start cutting.
Take your bell peppers notice the stem part, push that in firmly and break your pepper apart. Set one half off to the side, take the half that you’re going to work with and notice you’ve got seeds and you’ve got these ribs if you want to call them that. You want to get rid of all the seeds and you want to get rid of all these white part right here, these ridges because they do nothing but ruin the taste for you.
So, set your pepper down on your cutting board, underneath the cutting board, place a towel so that it doesn’t slip around on you. All you’re going to need for this one is a sharp knife. Cut your pepper into manageable portions so that you can then knock the seeds out and get rid of these white -- ridge cutting very carefully so that you don’t get cut yourself.
Once you’ve got that off., get rid of it, you don’t need it. Now, you’ve got a slice that you can work with. Now, if you’re going to Julianne this which you certainly can or dice it, either way, you’re going to first start by making slices lengthwise along your pepper. To make things easier for you, see this round part right here, get rid of that and you can chop it up later. Now, you’ve got a very even roughly rectangular piece to deal with, now it’s easy to make your cuts. Place your fingers with your fingers that stuck in and take the flat part of your knife, rest it against your knuckles and make the cuts slowly to the width that you’d like to have your dices.
So, first we Julienne our pepper and now if you want to dice it, gather up your pieces together and using the same techniques of folding your fingertips back and resting the flat of the knife against your knuckles. Make your cuts to the desired width. You can go as fine as you want or as wide as you want. And now, you’ve got your diced peppers.
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