Stuffed pepper in the oven - one of the optionscooking bell pepper. For the stuffing, some mistresses use minced meat, others prefer stuffing from vegetables. Any of these options is a very tasty and hearty dish. Correctly cooked and beautifully decorated dish will be an ornament of any festive table. When choosing a pepper, you should consider some of its features. First of all, the vegetable should be properly shaped, without various surface defects. Fleshy large fruits give the dish a sweetish taste. Thin, on the contrary, will make the dish more spicy, because they contain a substance such as capsaicin. According to nutritionists, the most useful are the red fruits, because they contain lycopene, antioxidants and rutin. The next place is occupied by yellow fruits, because they contain xanthophyll. Pepper of dark green color is better not to use for stuffing, as it has an unpleasant herbaceous smell and when it is cooked it gets an unappetizing dark shade.
Recipe for pepper stuffed with meat and rice
Ingredients:
- Bulgarian pepper - 10-12 pieces.,
- minced meat (pork + beef) - 400 g,
- rice - 1 item,
- carrots - 1 pc.,
- vegetable oil,
- garlic - 2-3 cloves,
- dill - 1 bunch,
- tomato - 1-2 pcs.,
- sugar - 1/4 tsp.,
- tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l.,
- onion - 2 pcs.,
- spice,
- salt.
Ingredients for sauce:
- tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.,
- sour cream - 200 grams,
- water - 1 tbsp.
Cooking method: Wash Bulgarian pepper thoroughly. Seed box neatly, so as not to break the pods, cut. Rice thoroughly rinse and boil in salted water until half cooked. Carrots cleaned, washed and grated on a large grater. Onion peeled, finely chopped. In a frying pan in vegetable oil lightly fry the onions and carrots, cool. In a deep bowl combine the minced meat, boiled rice and fried onions and carrots. Pulp of fresh tomato grate and add to the filling. Garlic let through the press, cut the greens finely and add to the stuffing. All a good mix, salt, pepper. The resulting mass of stuffed prepared peppers. Grease the baking tray with butter and spread the stuffed pepper onto it. Next, prepare the sauce. To do this, tomato paste is combined with sour cream, stir and diluted with water to the desired consistency. Add salt and spices. The oven is heated to 2000 and put a baking sheet in it, bake for 15 minutes. After that, the temperature of the oven is reduced to 1600, pour the pepper sauce and continue baking. After about an hour the dish will be ready. Put the baked pepper on a serving plate, pour the sauce and sprinkle with herbs.
Recipe for pepper stuffed with chicken and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- Bulgarian pepper - 600 grams,
- Mushrooms - 200 g,
- chicken fillet - 300 grams,
- onions - 150 g,
- salt,
- greenery,
- spice,
- hard cheese - 200 grams,
- vegetable oil.
Cooking method: Onion peeled, washed, finely chopped and lightly fried in a frying pan in vegetable oil. Mushrooms cleaned, washed, cut into small pieces, add to onions and fry. Chicken fillet twist in a meat grinder. Cut the greens finely and add to the stuffing. There also add cooled fried mushrooms with onions, salt and pepper. To prepare this recipe, it is better to use not whole pods, but halves. Therefore, cut the pepper in half, remove the seeds and halves fill the filling. Spread out on a greased baking sheet. Cheese is crumbled on a fine grater and sprinkled with the stuffed halves. The oven is heated to 180-190. We put the pan with pepper in the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes. Then baked peppers are laid out on serving plates and served to the table.
Recipe for pepper stuffed with ham and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- mushrooms - 200 g,
- Leek - 1 pc.,
- meat broth - 120 ml,
- carrots - 1 pc.,
- Bulgarian pepper yellow, red - 2 pcs.,
- ham - 300 grams,
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.,
- eggs - 2 pcs.,
- mozzarella - 130 grams,
- cream - 1 item,
- onion - 1 pc.,
- salt, spices.
Cooking method: We clean the leeks and cut them into rings. Carrots and onions cut into small cubes. All fry in vegetable oil. Ham is cut into cubes, mushrooms - small slices. Add them to the pan with onions and carrots. Solim, pepper and continue to fry until the mushrooms are ready. Raw eggs whipped with cream, salt, add nutmeg. The resulting mixture is poured into a frying pan to fried vegetables and ham. We mix everything thoroughly. Cut the pepper into halves, remove the seeds. We fill the halves with prepared minced meat and put them on a greased baking sheet. We carefully pour the meat broth between the halves and bake at 200020-25 minutes. Mozzarella (you can use cheese) cut into slices. When the dish is almost ready, we take the baking tray from the oven and put on each slice of cheese on each half. Bake for another 10-15 minutes. We put the prepared dish on a serving plate, decorate with greens, fresh vegetables and serve hot to the table. This recipe will become a real highlight of the festive table, as the finished dish looks very beautiful.