This recipe is translated from Cookpad Japan. See original: Japanお弁当のおかず★3色パプリカの塩きんぴら

Bento Side Dish: Salted Kinpira with Three-Color Bell Peppers

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This is a beautifully colorful salted kinpira made with bell peppers. It's perfect as a side dish for bento boxes and can be frozen for later! Recipe Background: To achieve a vibrant color, this kinpira uses salt instead of soy sauce. It's delicious even when cold, making it ideal for bento boxes.

Bento Side Dish: Salted Kinpira with Three-Color Bell Peppers

This is a beautifully colorful salted kinpira made with bell peppers. It's perfect as a side dish for bento boxes and can be frozen for later! Recipe Background: To achieve a vibrant color, this kinpira uses salt instead of soy sauce. It's delicious even when cold, making it ideal for bento boxes.

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Ingredients

Serves 4 servings
  1. 1red bell pepper
  2. 1yellow bell pepper
  3. 1-2green bell peppers or green peppers
  4. 1 tablespoonsake
  5. 1 tablespoonmirin
  6. 1 tablespoonsugar
  7. 1/2 teaspoonsalt
  8. Sesame oil (for finishing)

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Slice the bell peppers into thin strips.

  2. 2

    Heat olive oil in a frying pan (not included in the ingredient list) and sauté the bell peppers.

  3. 3

    Once they start to soften, turn off the heat and add all the seasonings.

  4. 4

    Reduce to low heat and stir until the liquid evaporates. Add sesame oil for flavor at the end.

  5. 5

    Perfect as a side dish for bento boxes!

  6. 6

    This Salted Kinpira with Three-Color Bell Peppers ranked in the top 10 for popular 'bell pepper' searches on September 18, 2014.

  7. 7

    On January 15, 2015, it became the number one recipe in the 'bell pepper' category. Thank you!

  8. 8

    Cut them uniformly and try topping them on rice.

  9. 9

    This Salted Kinpira with Three-Color Bell Peppers became a trending recipe (achieved 100 recipe reviews) on August 7, 2015.

  10. 10

    Make a large batch and freeze it for easy mornings.

  11. 11

    Use it as a side dish in octopus pilaf bento. This version includes eggplant.

  12. 12

    Great as a topping for grilled meat bento, which tends to look brownish.

  13. 13

    This recipe was featured in the March 2017 release of 'Cookpad's Delicious Make-Ahead Bento'.

  14. 14

    It was also featured in Cookpad News on August 29, 2017.

  15. 15

    Published in the November 2017 release of 'Cookpad's Easy Home-Style Japanese Cooking'.

  16. 16

    This Salted Kinpira with Three-Color Bell Peppers was inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 14, 2022.

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