Stuffed pepper is a recipe that allows you to tasty, healthy and varied throughout the summer season, without being puzzled by the selection of the filling and the search for cooking techniques, because the vegetable is perfectly combined with meat, cereals, cheese and tomatoes, and it turns out incredibly tasty when baking in the oven and amazingly juicy after extinguishing.
How to cook stuffed peppers?
Thanks to a simple method of preparation, stuffed Bulgarian pepper is recognized as the most popular summer home dish.
- Traditionally, it is cleaned of seeds, filled to the top with stuffing and stewed in sauce, in an upright position, for half an hour.
- It is acceptable to use ready-made components, in this case the dish is stewed or baked for 15 minutes.
- The filling for stuffed peppers determines the taste, aroma and juiciness of the dish, so it is important to consider the cooking time. Peppers stuffed with minced meat should be hardened for 40 minutes, and for vegetable fillings, half an hour is enough.
- The cereal fillings must be cooked until half cooked.
Stuffed peppers with minced meat and rice
Pepper stuffed with meat and rice is a classic of the genre, not requiring a presentation. Everyone loves him for tasty and juicy filling in the form of a combination of rice, meat and vegetables. When preparing it, the main thing is to follow several principles: meat should be bold, rice - slightly boiled, and vegetables added to the filling - fried.
Ingredients :
- pepper - 6 pcs .;
- pork - 550 g;
- rice - 100 g;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 piece;
- tomato sauce - 100 ml;
- water - 1 l;
- oil - 60 ml.
Preparation
- Pour rice into 300 ml of water.
- Scroll the pork in the meat grinder.
- Make a paste of carrots and onions.
- Stir all ingredients and stuff the peppers.
- Put the peppers in the dishes, add spices, sauce and water.
- Stuffed pepper is a recipe that suppresses a dish for 40 minutes.
Pepper stuffed with vegetables
Prepared vegetarian stuffed peppers are very simple, while they have a huge selection of lenten fillings. Vegetable stuffing is especially popular. Vegetables are combined with each other, beans and cereals, so any combination is possible with them. They must be fried in oil. This allows them to better reveal their taste and aromas.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 3 pieces;
- canned beans - 120 g;
- canned corn - 100 g;
- boiled potatoes - 1 pc .;
- onion - 1 piece;
- tomato - 1 piece;
- a clove of garlic - 2 pieces;
- oil - 40 ml.
Preparation
- Stew onions, beans, corn, tomato and garlic for 8 minutes.
- Stir with the potatoes and stuff the peppers.
- Stuffed with vegetables, peppers - a recipe in which the dish is baked for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Pepper stuffed with chicken
Pepper stuffed with meat - for hostesses who have time. Those who can not stand around the stove, choose the filling from the chicken breast. Poultry meat has a lot of advantages: it is quickly prepared, has a delicate texture, so it can not be ground into minced meat, but cut into pieces without resorting to the help of a meat grinder.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 6 pcs .;
- fillets - 1 kg;
- a clove of garlic - 2 pieces;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- tomatoes - 5 pcs .;
- oil - 20 ml.
Preparation
- Cut the fillets into cubes.
- Spare the onions, garlic and carrots.
- Grind the tomatoes in the blender.
- Stir the chicken fillet with passekrovkoy and stuff the peppers.
- Pour the peppers with tomato puree.
- Stuffed chicken pepper is a recipe in which the dish is stewed for 15 minutes.
Pepper stuffed with mushrooms
Each preparation of stuffed pepper is based on the desire to make the dish more tasty, juicier, more interesting and aromatic than the previous one. Experienced cooks are advised not to be particularly philosophical and always add mushrooms. They can be used as a mono-filling or supplemented with nutritional components: cheese and walnuts.
Ingredients :
- pepper - 4 pcs .;
- champignons - 450 g;
- walnuts - 100 g;
- cheese - 150 g;
- onion - 1 piece;
- soy sauce - 80 ml;
- oil - 40 ml.
Preparation
- Cut the peppers in half. Blanch for 5 minutes.
- Fry the onions and mushrooms. Season.
- Stir with nuts and soy sauce.
- Fill the peppers with the filling and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle with cheese and after 5 minutes remove from the oven.
Pepper stuffed with cabbage
Stuffed peppers without meat - an ideal dish for summer days, when you want a light meal, which you can eat cold. A wonderful replacement for meat will be white cabbage, which had by this time of the year, gathered juices and sweet taste. For softness and tenderness, it is fried with carrots and onions, and stuffing peppers, stew in tomato sauce.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 5 pcs .;
- cabbage - 250 g;
- champignons - 120 g;
- onion - 1 piece;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- tomato paste - 70 g;
- water - 1 l;
- oil - 60 ml.
Preparation
- Pour the pepper 500 ml of boiling water for 15 minutes.
- Fry the cabbage, onions, carrots and mushrooms.
- Drain the pepper and fill it with vegetables.
- Place the pepper in a saucepan, pour in the tomato paste and water and cook for 25 minutes.
Stuffed peppers in sour cream sauce
The sauce for stuffed peppers is not rich in options. There are only two of them: sweet and sour tomato and delicate sour cream. The latter has a creamy taste, medium density and a low calorie content. Often with sour cream sauce recipes with rice and meat stuffing are prepared. He adds a pleasant acidity to the meat and makes the rice very tender.
Ingredients :
- pepper - 8 pcs .;
- minced pork - 550 g;
- rice - 200 g;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 piece;
- oil - 60 ml;
- sour cream - 250 ml;
- water 120 ml;
- flour - 20 g.
Preparation
- Bake peppers at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Boil until half cooked rice.
- Fry onions and carrots.
- Add the stuffing and cook for 5 minutes.
- Connect all the ingredients together and fill the pepper.
- Put the peppers in a saucepan and pour sauce from sour cream, flour and water.
- Stuffed pepper - a recipe in which the dish is stewed under the lid for 20 minutes.
Stuffed peppers with tomatoes
A great way to move the classics off the ground is to cook stuffed peppers with tomatoes in the oven. Moreover, this is easy: you need to cut the peppers along, put tomato slices, anchovies, garlic and bake in the oven. It will be modern and tasty. You will get a light snack that will satisfy the hunger in the summer and will light up the appetite in the winter.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 4 pcs .;
- tomatoes - 8 pcs .;
- garlic head - 1 piece;
- anchovies - 8 pcs .;
- oil - 40 ml.
Preparation
- Blanch the tomatoes, peel and cut into circles.
- Finely chop the cloves of garlic.
- Cut the peppers in half and stuff each half with tomatoes, garlic and anchovies.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
- Serve the baked stuffed peppers hot.
Lazy stuffed peppers
Those who do not have the time to make a delicious stuffed pepper on a classic recipe, come to the aid of "lazy" options. They do not need to be stuffed, you just need to mix the fried pepper with rice and minced meat, and bake in the form of cutlets in the oven under sauce. Especially lazy housewives can simply put out all together.
Ingredients:
- minced meat - 550 g;
- boiled rice - 250 g;
- tomato sauce - 250 ml;
- pepper - 250 g;
- sour cream - 40 g;
- onion - 1 piece;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- oil - 40 ml;
- water 120 ml.
Preparation
- Fry the onions, peppers and carrots.
- Add rice, mincemeat and form cutlets.
- Fill the cutlets with tomato sauce, sour cream and water and bake for 30 minutes at 170 degrees.
Pepper stuffed with cheese
Pepper stuffed with cheese and garlic will diversify the table with cold appetizers. Here, nothing needs to be fried, soared and stewed: the vegetable is not subjected to heat treatment, therefore it retains its natural taste and all useful substances. Pepper is ideally combined with cheese-garlic stuffing, which can be made from any kind of cheese.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 4 pcs .;
- curd cheese - 450 g;
- greens - 40 g;
- a clove of garlic - 6 pcs .;
- water - 150 ml;
- oil - 60 ml;
- spices for vegetables - 15 g.
Preparation
- Stir the cheese with herbs, 4 cloves of garlic and stuff the peppers.
- Marinate the peppers in a sauce of oil, water, spices and garlic for 4 hours.
Pepper stuffed in the oven halves
Pepper stuffed with meat in the oven in preparation takes about an hour. At the same time the dish does not always turn out to be successful and may not look juicy and over-dried. A great idea is to bake it in half. So he will cook faster, more appetizing and richer will look on the table, and the guests will be able to immediately view all of his stuffing.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 2 pieces;
- minced meat - 200 g;
- sour cream - 40 g;
- tomato -1 pc .;
- cheese - 60 g;
- onions - 1 pc.
Preparation
- Cut the pepper into halves.
- Stir mincemeat with onions and tomatoes.
- Put the filling in peppers, sprinkle with sour cream and cheese.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
How to cook stuffed peppers in a multivark?
Many housewives have long been convinced that the stuffed peppers in the multivark . Exceed dishes made in the oven or on the stove. At the same time, the preparatory process is similar to the traditional one. The secret is in the gentle "Quenching" mode, thanks to which the dish is not boiled, so the peppers turn out to be tender, juicy and not overcooked.
Ingredients :
- pepper - 7 pcs .;
- minced pork - 550 g;
- rice - 100 g;
- onion - 120 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- tomato juice - 500 g;
- oil - 80 ml.
Preparation
- Strain the onions and carrots for 5 minutes in "Zharke".
- Stir the dressing with minced meat and rice.
- Fill the peppers with the filling.
- Fill with sour cream and juice.
- Cook for 1 hour.