Sweet block pepers - Red/yellow/orange

HOW WE GROW IT

Sweet bell peppers grown in full sun in composted beds, with no synthetic inputs or sprays. The trick with a good pepper is patience: we leave them on the plant to ripen all the way through to red, orange, or yellow rather than picking them green and unripe. That extra time on the plant is where the sweetness and the deep colour come from.

THE PRODUCT

Thick-walled, glossy, and genuinely sweet — block peppers ripened fully to red, orange, and yellow, with none of the bitterness of green, underripe fruit. The flesh is crisp and juicy raw, and turns silky and even sweeter when roasted. A mix of colours brings life to any plate, and fully-ripe peppers carry far more vitamin C and flavour than the green ones picked early.

ORDERING DETAILS

• Unit: Sold by weight — €2.15 per 0.5kg, or €3.95 per kg

• Note: We'll always try to deliver a mix of red, orange, and yellow, but the colours change through the season — we harvest whichever colour is at its best that week, so some weeks you may receive just one colour if that's the one at its peak

• Harvest: Picked fully ripe, cut fresh on delivery morning

A TIP FROM OUR KITCHEN

Roast them whole until the skins blister and blacken, then steam in a covered bowl and peel — the sweetest thing you can do with a pepper, and the base for countless dishes. Slice raw into salads for crunch and colour, or char on the grill alongside anything from the barbecue. Freeze roasted peppers in oil to hold the summer flavour into winter.