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Summary: When chopping red pepper for chicken and chorizo sausage ragu, remove the seeds first. Learn how to chop red peppers with tips from an expert chef in this free culinary video.
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Sven Robinson Sven Robinson began his culinary career in 1983. His 25 years of experience working in restaurants in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Arizona, San F... read more
While we're waiting for our vegetable stock to come to a boil, we're going to turn our back burner on to about eight. And then we're going to measure out a tablespoon of oil in our large pot. While we're waiting for that oil to heat up, we're going to take half of a red pepper, and just cut along the bottom here and then we'll cut that in half to open it, and pull out any seeds that we find. And then we'll just dice this pepper into small pieces. Once the pepper is cut, we will cut our tomato. So I'll cut the top off. And again we can cut a triangle right around our core, so that part we don't want to eat, but this part is perfectly fine. We'll dice our tomato, and now what we're going to do is we're going to toast our rice.