How to Cut Sweet Pepper quickly and easily Custom Search How to cut sweet pepper quickly and easily for salad use is important to conserve on preparation time. Many salads call for diced or chopped peppers. This guide below is the quickest way I have found for chopped or diced peppers. Step 1 Choose a firm Sweet pepper without any blemishes. Wash it under cold running water. Step 2 Dry the sweet pepper with some paper towels. Step 3 Using a medium length serrated knife, cut the bottom off the sweet pepper. Step 4 Turn your sweet pepper around and cut off the top. Step 5 Hold your sweet pepper up, with the bottom end facing you, over a piece of paper towel. Insert your knife down inside the cavity, all the way to the bottom. Step 6 Cut carefully all around the inside and the entire center section of the sweet pepper will fall out - seeds and all. Step 7 Here is the center section - discard this. Step 8 Lay one of the cut ends flat on the cutting board and begin to slice across it.