Categories: Vegetables, Usenet 
      Yield: 4 servings 
  
      1 lb Red peppers, fresh 
           -(sweet red capsicum 
           -peppers) 
    1/4 c  Lemon juice 
           Salt 
  
  Preheat broiler as hot as you can get it.  Turn red peppers under the 
  broiler until their skins come up in black bubbles. Cool the peppers until 
  you can handle them comfortably. 
   
  Remove the skins, stems, cores and seeds.  (This is messy work.  I have 
  tried removing the innards first, before putting the peppers under the 
  broiler, and the result is not so good as this way.) 
   
  Cut the peppers into finger shapes.  Flavor them with fresh lemon juice and 
  salt.  Let them sit for several hours, draining off the liquid that forms. 
   
  NOTES: 
   
  *  A low-calorie but flavorful red pepper salad -- Safeway got in their 
  first carload of really cheap red peppers yesterday, and I made roasted 
  pepper salad. 
   
  Serve this at room temperature as a side dish for anything Nicoise or 
  Spanish or Greek or Egyptian. Or make a meal of them by adding a bowl of 
  yoghurt, a bowl of chopped onion, some black olives, radishes and 
  pistachios, and lots of warm pita bread. Or use it with sauteed garlic and 
  pitted black olives and a little reduced white wine as a spaghetti sauce. 
  Yield:  Serves 4. 
   
  *  Now.  Here is the real point about this recipe:  These roasted peppers 
  are insanely delicious, smooth and unctuous and aromatic, and yet they 
  contain absolutely no calories. A full-sized red pepper is only 15 
  calories. 
   
  *  Of course I could lose weight if I never ate more than three tablespoons 
  of anything. Any fool could do that. But I don't want to confine myself to 
  three tablespoons.  Perhaps my taste buds work more slowly that other 
  people's.  I don't seem to get the hang of what I'm eating till the second 
  serving, or sometimes the third. 
   
  *  At the same time, I want things that are really voluptuous and good to 
  eat, full of interesting, complicated flavors that will satisfy me and make 
  me feel happy and rewarded. Again, any fool could lose weight by eating 
  celery stalks and carrots. Unfortunately, any number of carrot sticks over 
  six makes me grumpish, and raw celery turns me positively surly in short 
  order unless accompanied by delicious, fattening sour cream and cream 
  cheese. 
   
  : Difficulty:  easy. 
  : Time:  15 minutes preparation, several hours aging. 
  : Precision:  no need to measure. 
   
  : Mary-Claire van Leunen 
  : DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, California, USA 
  : mcvl@src.dec.com  -or- decwrl!decsrc!mcvl 
   
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