Learn how to sauté peppers and onions in 15 minutes! Make sautéed veggies just like your favorite Mexican restaurant serves onions and peppers for fajitas. This is a crowd-pleasing vegetable side dish for potlucks, steak dinners, shrimp, and chicken sandwiches. Even add them to pizza! Let’s sauté...
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Total Time20 minutesmins
Course: Dinner, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: how to sauté peppers and onions, sauteed bell peppers and onions, sautéed peppers and onions, sauteed peppers and onions for fajitas
½ mediumyellow onioncut in half and sliced in ½” strips
½ mediumred peppercut in half and sliced in ½” strips
½ mediumyellow peppercut in half and sliced in ½” strips
½ tbsp salt
1tbspbutter
Instructions
Set a large pan or large skillet on the stove to medium-high heat. Add all ingredients (except for the butter) to make the onions and peppers and sauté for ~5 minutes, stirring regularly.
Add butter and stir regularly while cooking for another 5-10 minutes. Remove from heat before sautéed onions and peppers burn. They are done cooking when the onions and peppers are roasted on the edges and softened.
Video
Notes
What if you burn onions and peppers while sautéing them?If you have multiple burners going, it can be easy to forget you’re sautéing onions and peppers. (unless that’s just me, trying to throw dinner on the table during a busy week of recipe testing for Sip Bite Go.).If for some reason the onions and peppers begin to burn, I have a trick for saving the recipe. It usually happens because the pan is getting a little too dry. Which can happen if you’re using a very large pan because there is more room to cook and they aren’t layered on top of eachother.Anyways, to save them, add 1-2 tablespoons of water to the pan, and reduce the heat to medium-low. You can also throw in an extra 1 tablespoons of butter. Cook until the liquid dissolves and the burning taste should mellow out and they’ll become more caramelized.See the recipe: https://sipbitego.com/sauteed-onions-peppersSee the recipe video for sauteed peppers and onions on YouTube.