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- 0:00Speaker 1: Sweet and sour peppers or grattan are a simple Southern
- 0:03Speaker 1: Italian side dish. You enjoy tender bell peppers in a
- 0:08Speaker 1: sweet and tangy sauce with raisins and pine nuts, and
- 0:11Speaker 1: a crisp aromatic bread crumb topping with garlic and parsley.
- 0:16Speaker 1: You serve this dish hot with slices of bread alongside meat, fish,
- 0:20Speaker 1: or cheese. For four servings, you need about ten minutes
- 0:24Speaker 1: of preparation and about twenty minutes of cooking. You need
- 0:28Speaker 1: these ingredients red peppers one point three pounds or six
- 0:33Speaker 1: hundred grams garlic, one clove extra virgin olive oil, one
- 0:39Speaker 1: and one half tablespoons or twenty grams fine salt, as kneeded,
- 0:45Speaker 1: white wine vinegar two tablespoons or thirty grams sugar as
- 0:50Speaker 1: indicated in the recipe steps. Pine nuts two and one
- 0:54Speaker 1: half tablespoons or twenty grams raisins one point two ounce
- 1:00Speaker 1: or thirty five grams fresh bread, three point five ounces
- 1:05Speaker 1: or one hundred grams fresh parsley as needed. To serve,
- 1:11Speaker 1: you also need two slices of bread. You start with
- 1:15Speaker 1: the sweet and sour seasoning. You soak the raisins in
- 1:18Speaker 1: a little water with half of the total vinegar amount separately.
- 1:23Speaker 1: You pour the remaining one tablespoon of vinegar into the
- 1:26Speaker 1: sugar and mix until the sugar dissolves. You prepare the peppers.
- 1:32Speaker 1: You cut the peppers in half, remove the stems and
- 1:34Speaker 1: internal seeds, then cut them into strips. You then cut
- 1:39Speaker 1: each strip in half to obtain smaller pieces. You heat
- 1:43Speaker 1: the extra virgin olive oil in a large pan over
- 1:46Speaker 1: medium heat. You add the pepper pieces and season with
- 1:49Speaker 1: fine salt. You cook, stirring from time to time until
- 1:54Speaker 1: the peppers start to soften. At this point, you pour
- 1:58Speaker 1: in the vinegar and sugar mixture. You continue to cook
- 2:02Speaker 1: for a total of about twenty minutes, or until the
- 2:04Speaker 1: peppers become tender. While the peppers cook, you prepare the
- 2:09Speaker 1: bread crumb mixture. You tear the fresh bread into pieces
- 2:13Speaker 1: and place it in a food processor. You add the
- 2:16Speaker 1: fresh parsley. You remove the germ from the garlic clove,
- 2:20Speaker 1: add the garlic to the processor, and blend everything until
- 2:23Speaker 1: you obtain a uniform bread crumb mixture. Toward the end
- 2:28Speaker 1: of the pepper cooking time, you add the pine nuts
- 2:30Speaker 1: to the pan. You also add the soaked and well
- 2:34Speaker 1: drained raisins. You then sprinkle the bread crumb mixture over
- 2:38Speaker 1: the peppers. You let the bread crumbs brown and gratinate
- 2:42Speaker 1: directly in the pan for a few minutes without burning them.
- 2:46Speaker 1: You stir everything to combine the peppers with the toasted
- 2:49Speaker 1: bread crumb mixture. The sweet and sour peppers, Oh grattan,
- 2:53Speaker 1: are now ready. You serve them hot, accompanied by the
- 2:57Speaker 1: slices of bread.