Tsukuoki Life: Weekend Meal Prep Recipes! - Vol. 2 Ch. 10 - Cooking Without Flame ♪ Mild Edamame Hijiki Chicken Meatballs and Umashio Bell Peppers

[MangaDex]

 

[Diagus]

Woahh, another recipes. Thank you and next Boss

 

[ggbv]

This is a year later, but one thing to note for these recipes is that Japanese bell peppers (piiman) are different than the big fist-sized bell peppers you might see in western cooking. So when it says 8 bell peppers for the Umashio bell pepper recipes, it means a much smaller pepper, probably a half to a third of the size of big boy bell peppers (you can see the size relative to his hand on pg 6). Same common ancestor pepper (native to Americas and imported to Japan mid to late 1800s), with thinner walls and much smaller, usually about the size of a jalapeno or bell pepper.
What I'm getting at is don't use 8 huge bell peppers if you try this recipe. That is too much pepper.

 

[blackLuna]

This is a year later, but one thing to note for these recipes is that Japanese bell peppers (piiman) are different than the big fist-sized bell peppers you might see in western cooking. So when it says 8 bell peppers for the Umashio bell pepper recipes, it means a much smaller pepper, probably a half to a third of the size of big boy bell peppers (you can see the size relative to his hand on pg 6). Same common ancestor pepper (native to Americas and imported to Japan mid to late 1800s), with thinner walls and much smaller, usually about the size of a jalapeno or bell pepper.
What I'm getting at is don't use 8 huge bell peppers if you try this recipe. That is too much pepper.

…I'm guessing that these Japanese bell peppers are, along with their carrots, somehow bitter (since both vegetables are noted for their sweetness outside of East Asia yet are stereotypically disliked by children there (rather than things like broccoli, cauliflower, or spinach — you know, things which are actually bitter to a child's tastebuds, irrespective of cultivar).

Otherwise the "bitterness of the bell peppers" could only be complete mishigas — there's a reason they're also known as "sweet peppers" in English and other Western tongues. (So I'm assuming it's their cultivars.)