Carmen Peppers

Every year, we plant a variety of peppers at One Love Farm. Some standards, like Cayenne, we plant every year and use in our chili powder and hot sauce. But, mostly we like to experiment with varieties of chilis that we have not planted before.

Carmen is one of those peppers we have never planted before. It has a wide top that grows to a tapered end and ripens from green to red in late summer.

I had been harvesting the peppers during the summer when they were still green and enjoying them in stir fry and stuffed with rice or cheese or veggies or all three. But, one they turn red, they get an amazing sweetness. So, I have been roasting them on the grill and using the roasted red peppers on pizza, on salads and as an antipasta with goat cheese. While smaller than the common bell pepper, they are much sweeter and tastier!