Kalyn’s Kitchen Picks: Roasted Red Peppers
Freshly cooked red peppers are wonderful, but these roasted red peppers in a jar are great when you don’t have time to roast your own! And they taste amazing in a wide variety of dishes and this post has links to my favorite recipes using them.
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I love Roasted Red Peppers as a pantry ingredient. Of course you can roast your own red peppers, and the freshly roasted peppers are fantastic. But when you don’t have that much time, using red peppers from a jar is quick and the jarred peppers are amazingly flavorful. My normal grocery store carries two brands of jarred red peppers, but these Mount Olive Roasted Red Peppers are cheaper and so consistently good that they’re the ones I always reach for.
But no matter what brand of roasted red peppers your store carries, I hope you keep them in the pantry to add flavor to so many dishes. And that’s why I’m adding roasted red peppers to my list of Kalyn’s Kitchen Picks, where I rave about products that I love enough that I’d happily buy them over and over.
Just in case you’re looking at that jar and wondering how I’d use this type of roasted red pepper, here are some recipes from the blog that use them.
Sauces and Dips with Red Peppers:
Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Aioli Sauce
Roasted Red Pepper Dip with Feta
Soup with Red Peppers:
Sausage and Lentil Soup
Instant Pot Goulash Soup
Stew with Red Peppers:
Spicy Red Fish Stew
Chicken and Sausage Stew (Instant Pot or Slow Cooker)
Main Dishes with Red Peppers:
Hungarian Pot Roast (Instant Pot or Slow Cooker)
Sausage and Peppers Casserole
Paprika Chicken
Breakfast Dishes with Red Peppers:
Chester’s Low-Carb Southwestern Egg Skillet
Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole with Artichokes
Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole with Kale, Red Pepper, and Feta
Vegetable Dishes with Red Peppers:
Greek Style Roasted Mushrooms
Mediterranean Eggplant
Salads with Red Peppers:
Green Bean Salad with Hearts of Palm
Zucchini Noodle Mock Pasta Salad
No-Pasta Salad with Zucchini and Italian Sausage
Pesto Pasta Salad (with regular or low-carb pasta)
Artichoke Antipasto Salad with Basil Vinaigrette
About Kalyn’s Kitchen Picks:
Everything I feature for Kalyn’s Kitchen Picks is a product I’ve used myself and would happily buy over and over again. (Mount Olive has never sent me any red peppers, and they have no idea I’m writing about their product.)
10 Comments on “Kalyn’s Kitchen Picks: Roasted Red Peppers”
Tool Princess,
Fun to hear where they come from! I haven't seen the pickles but will watch for them.
Mt. Olive is a North Carolina brand (and made in a small town in NC of the same name). I love Mt. Olive pickles!
Rachel, great idea! I can imagine how this would bump up the flavor.
I like adding minced jarred red peppers to tomato sauces and chili. They sort of melt right in and add some sweetness.
Lydia, maybe this is a western brand but I see them in all my stores here. Never made pesto with red peppers, great idea.
Jennifer, yum! This would be great in gazpacho.
roasted reds are also terrific in a gazpacho, and I try to keep them on hand for when the mood hits.
I've never seen this brand, but I always keep some roasted red peppers in the pantry. My favorite way to use them is to turn them into pesto.
Val, thanks for confirming that this brand is great! I've always had good luck with them.
Susie Bee, great idea!
With goat or feta cheese stuffed inside chicken breasts!
I like to use the Mount Olive brand too… I've come across some brands of roasted peppers that were too charred and just had a strong char taste… These are definitely better!!