Nancy Silverton’s Marinated Baby Bell Peppers

Pizzeria Mozza, Nancy Silverton’s iconic—and near-impossible to get a reservation at—restaurant in Los Angeles and Newport Beach is a testament to the power of good dough and great ingredients treated with simple technique and a lot of heart. These bell peppers fall into the latter category and have become a staple at Pizzeria Mozza. The market fresh rainbow baby bell peppers are sweet, tasty and roasted with olive oil; a treatment that makes them extremely snackable and a wonderful addition to any antipasto board.

Nancy first tried a version of these peppers when she hosted a book party for Italian-American chef Lidia Bastianich and served Lidia’s pepper recipe for antipasto. “Shortly after, I spotted tiny, bright-colored peppers in a grocery store,” Nancy writes in The Mozza Cookbook. “They were so pretty, with red, yellow and orange colors mixed in one bag. Motivated by those peppers, I decided to put a version of Lidia’s peppers on the Pizzeria menu.” 

Now you can have them at home, no matter how close you live to Pizzeria Mozza. We like them on an appetizer board, atop a pizza, stuffed into a sandwich or dotting a mixed green salad.