Pimientos are a ripe, sweet, red pepper, and are grown to best advantage in the warm, sunny climate of Southern California. DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos are the pick of the finest crops, carefully selected for size, color and texture. Their many menu possibilities are rapidly making them a staple of every household. They are particularly adapted for stuffings, salads, and garnishes of all kinds. Packed in two sizes, quarters and No. 1 tall cans.

Pimiento Suggestions And Recipes

Delicious sandwich filling may be made by chopping DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos and adding to thick mayonnaise.

Red pimientos cut into strips, circles, or fancy shapes are an attractive garnish to any salad or cold meat.

Garnish the baked fish with strips of pimiento and add a tablespoon of chopped pimiento to the sauce for a welcome change.

Add a little chopped pimiento to all the fish cocktails to make them "something different".

Never omit a few thin slices of pimiento from the canape. It is a wonderful appetizer and its color adds a charming touch.

Pimientos mashed to a paste and mixed with slices of small white pickled onions and moistened with a little olive oil make a delicious sandwich paste.

Cottage or cream cheese mixed with chopped pimiento makes a good sandwich filling, or may be molded into balls and served with salad.

Add a little coarsely chopped pimiento to the creamed chicken for a Spanish touch.

A chopped pimiento in the meat croquettes is a very great addition in flavor.

A few chopped pimientos in the stuffing for fish is an appetizing change.

Chopped pimientos in boiled rice when served as a vegetable add to its appearance and taste.

Add chopped pimientos to the scalloped cauliflower. The combination is delicious.

Tuna and pimientos may be combined in salads, sandwiches, or hot dishes with equally pleasing results.

Pimiento Bisque

Pour boiling water over 1 can of DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos and rub them through a strainer. Cook 3 cups of milk, 1 tablespoon of chopped onion and 1/4 cup of uncooked rice in a double boiler until rice is very tender, rub through a strainer, add pimientos and re-heat if necessary.

Salade Italienne

Finely chop 1/2 cup (1/2 can) of DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos and 1 small onion. Cut 2 cooked potatoes, 1 cooked carrot and 1 cooked turnip in cubes and mix thoroughly with the pimientos and onion. Pour French dressing over all and allow to stand at least one hour before serving. Serve on lettuce and garnish with long strips of the pimientos.

Pimientos And Poached Eggs

Heat 1/2 cup (1/2 can) of DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos in 1 cup of milk and rub through a strainer. Make a cream sauce by thickening this and pour it into 6 greased ramekins, put a raw egg in each, cover with crumbs, and bake in the oven until eggs are firm and crumbs are brown.

Clam Chowder A La Del Monte

Mix 1 can of chopped DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos with 1 cup of sliced cooked potatoes and 1 cup of chopped or minced clams. Cut a slice of bacon or fat salt pork into pieces and cook until the fat is tried out, add 1 large onion chopped, and cook until it is yellow; then add 2 cups of thin well seasoned white sauce and the pimientos, potatoes and clams. Cook until thoroughly heated and serve.

Deviled Fish With Pimientos

Mix 1 1/2 cups of flaked cooked fish with 1/2 cup (1/2 can) of DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos cut in pieces, and 1 tablespoon of chopped onion. Add to 1 1/2 cups of thick well seasoned white sauce and pour into a greased baking dish, cover with 1/2 cup of crumbs to which 1 tablespoon of melted butter substitute has been added and brown in a hot oven.

Pimiento And Cheese Cutlets

Pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water over 1/2 cup (1/2 can) of DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos in a strainer, then rub the pimientos through into the boiling water. Mix 1/2 cup of cornstarch with 1/2 cup of cold water, add to pimiento mixture and cook in double boiler 45 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of grated cheese, pour into wet loaf pan and when cold cut in slices, roll in crumbs, and brown in fat in the frying pan.

Potatoes In Spanish Sauce

Rub 1/2 cup (1/2 can) of DEL MONTE Canned Red Pimientos through a strainer and add to 1 cup of thick well seasoned white sauce, add 2 cups of cooked potatoes cut in cubes, and cook until thoroughly heated. Pour into serving dish and garnish with pimientos cut in fancy shapes.