Stuffed peppers have long been a favorite dish on our table. The secret of its popularity is that due to the variety of fillings, the dish becomes different every time, but the taste does not suffer from this. I bring to your attention several recipes for fillings for peppers.
In order not to repeat myself, I’ll tell you right away how to prepare fruits for stuffing. This step is the same in almost every recipe.
Wash fresh fruits thoroughly before cooking. Then cut off the top of the fruit and remove the seeds from the core. Place the peeled fruits in a bowl or pan, cover with boiling water, and leave for a few 3-5 minutes. Scalded fruits will become softer, making them easier to stuff later. Frozen peppers just need to be doused with boiling water, and they will be ready for stuffing.
There is no need to throw away the cut tops of the peppers. Separate them from the stalk and place them next to the stuffed peppers.
Stuffed peppers with meat and rice - classic recipe
Products:
- Mixed minced meat (beef + pork) – 500 g,
- Rice – 0.5 cups,
- Onions – 3 pcs.,
- Carrots – 2-3 pcs.,
- Tomatoes – 5 pcs.,
- Spices – salt, sugar, black peppercorns, allspice.
Preparation
- Wash the rice and place it in a saucepan with water on the fire.
- While the rice is cooking, prepare the pepper.
- Finely chop the peeled onion, place it in a frying pan with oil, fry, stirring occasionally.
- Three carrots on a coarse grater, then add them to the onions and bring them together with the onions until half cooked.
- Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin from them, grate half of them and add them to the onions and carrots.
- Salt and pepper the mixture to taste.
- Drain the water from the boiled rice.
- Add rice, minced meat, salt and pepper to the fried vegetables. The peppers are filled with the prepared filling, placed in a pan, poured with sauce and simmered for 40 minutes under the lid.
Preparing the sauce
We also grate the remaining tomatoes, send them to the peppers in the pan, add a little boiled water so that the liquid reaches the shoulders, close the pan with a lid and simmer for 40 minutes.
Delicious juicy stuffed peppers
Products:
- Mixed minced meat – 600 g,
- Rice – 80 g,
- Peppers – 10-12 pcs.,
- Carrots – 2 pcs.,
- Onions – 2-3 pcs.,
- Salt, ground black pepper - to taste,
- For the sauce - 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste per 0.5 liters of water (or 2 cups of tomato juice) + 2 tsp. Sahara.
Preparation
- Fry finely chopped onion and one carrot, grated on a coarse grater.
- Boil rice in salted water.
- Combine half of the fried vegetables, rice and minced meat, add spices, mix thoroughly.
- Prepare the sauce: add tomato sauce to the other half of the fried onions and carrots, simmer for 5 minutes, then add spices, 2 tsp. Sahara. You won’t feel the sugar in the sauce, but the taste of the dish will improve.
- We stuff the fruits with the filling, place them in a pan, pour in water so that it reaches the shoulders of the peppers. Pour roasting sauce on top. Simmer for 40-50 minutes.
- Before serving, decorate the finished dish with herbs.
Stuffed peppers with sour cream - very tasty!
Products:
- Bell pepper – 15 pcs.,
- Minced meat – 1 kg,
- Carrots – 1 pc.,
- Onions – 1 pc.,
- Rice – 100 g.,
- Sour cream – 400 g.,
- Tomato sauce – 400-500 g.,
- Water – 100 ml (for sauce),
- Salt, ground pepper - to taste.
How to do
- Chop the onion as for a regular fry.
- Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
- Add water to the washed rice in a ratio of 1:2.
- Heat a frying pan, pour oil into it, fry the onion until transparent, then add the carrots and fry over low heat for 10 minutes.
- We combine boiled rice, frying and minced meat together. Salt, pepper to taste, mix.
- We stuff the peppers.
- Prepare the sauce: pour tomato paste into a heated frying pan, then add sour cream and water. Add 1 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. Sahara. Stir, bring to a boil and simmer for 1 minute.
- Pour the sauce over the peppers placed in the pan and simmer for 40 minutes. It may turn out that there is not enough sauce, in which case you can simply add boiled water.
You need to take:
- bell pepper,
- Carrots – 2 pcs.,
- 1 large onion,
- 1 cup boiled rice,
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.,
- Vegetable oil for frying,
- Sour cream for sauce 2 tbsp. l.,
- Flour – 1 tbsp. l.,
- Water – 0.5 l,
- Salt, ground pepper.
How to cook
- We prepare the peppers, do not throw away the cut off tops, they will come in handy. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, finely chop the onion.
- In a frying pan with oil, fry half of the prepared onions and carrots, add 1 finely chopped tomato to them.
- Add finely chopped pepper tops and rice to the frying. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix.
- Place the filling in the peppers and place them in the pan.
- Prepare sour cream sauce. Fry the remaining half of the onions and carrots in a frying pan with butter until half cooked, add finely chopped tomato (you can use 1 tablespoon of tomato paste), sprinkle with flour, stir the frying so that the flour absorbs all the fat. Then add water, stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Salt and pepper sauce, you can add 0.5 tsp Vegeta, and at the end add sour cream. Mix everything thoroughly again, bring to a boil and pour the sauce over the prepared peppers.
- Simmer the peppers for 30-40 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with herbs.
Peppers with vegetarian filling (cooking in the oven)
Required Products:
- Onions – 2 pcs.,
- Champignons, but it’s better to take porcini mushrooms,
- Boiled rice - 1 cup,
- Tomatoes 2-3 pcs.,
- Zucchini,
- Feta cheese – 50 -100 g,
- Oil for frying,
- Salt, pepper, oregano - to taste.
Preparation
- In a heated frying pan with oil, fry finely chopped onions, mushrooms, and zucchini.
- Add spices, and then diced tomatoes, fry for another 5 minutes.
- Add rice and mix the filling.
- We stuff the peppers and put them in a saucepan.
- Place Feta cheese on top of the peppers, sprinkle a little more pepper, and put a slice of tomato on top.
- Place in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
Stuffed peppers with chicken filling (in the oven)
Ingredients:
- Boiled or fried chicken fillet,
- BBQ sauce (you can use ketchup)
- Mozzarella cheese (or any other)
- Celery, diced
- Boiled rice,
- Salt, pepper - to taste.
I don’t indicate the quantity of products, they are taken from their availability.
How to cook
- Add a little barbecue sauce or ketchup, celery, and rice to the chicken meat. Stir, salt and pepper.
- Mix again and stuff the peppers.
- Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the filling.
- Place in the oven for 30 minutes.
- When serving, pour a little sauce over it and sprinkle with herbs.
Products:
- Large bell pepper,
- Chicken fillet,
- Tomatoes – 1 – 2 pcs.,
- Hard cheese – 100-150 g,
- Unflavored yogurt (sour cream) – 2 tbsp. l.,
- Salt, ground pepper, garlic seasoning, dill.
Preparation
- Wash the pepper, cut it in half so that the stalk is also cut into 2 parts. We clean the halves from the core and seeds.
- Raw chicken fillet, tomatoes cut into cubes. Grate the cheese and finely chop the greens.
- We combine chopped fillet, tomatoes, and herbs. Salt, pepper, add herbs, garlic seasoning. Mix.
- Place the filling into the pepper halves. Then put them in a greased form.
- Place in the oven to bake for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180-200ºC.
- After 30 minutes, remove the pan from the oven, sprinkle the stuffed halves with grated cheese and put them back in the oven for 10 minutes.
Ingredients
For 4–5 bell peppers:
- 300 g minced meat;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil;
- 1 tomato or 2–3 tablespoons of tomato paste - optional;
- 100 g rice;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- 1 bunch of parsley - optional.
Any minced meat is suitable for the filling. Most often, peppers are made with pork, chicken, lamb, turkey, or combinations of different types of meat.
The classic version is a mixture of minced pork and beef in a 1:1 ratio.
It is from this minced meat that a juicy, but moderately fatty filling for peppers is obtained.
By the way, instead of minced meat, you can use bacon, mushrooms, shrimp, vegetables or cheese:
Preparation
Grate the carrots on a medium or coarse grater and cut the onion into small cubes.
Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the onions first, and after 2-3 minutes - the carrots. Fry, stirring occasionally, until golden brown. You can add tomato pulp or tomato paste to the vegetables.
Some people prefer to add raw onions to the minced meat, but the filling will be more flavorful if it is fried.
Place the roast on a plate. If you leave vegetables in the pan, even after removing it from the heat, they will still continue to fry.
- Tomato juice + 2–3 tablespoons of sour cream + salt + ground black pepper.
- 2 tablespoons sour cream + 2 tablespoons tomato paste + water + salt + ground black pepper.
- 1 carrot + 1 onion + 2 tomatoes or 3-4 tablespoons of tomato paste + 2 tablespoons sour cream + salt + ground black pepper + water. Fry carrots and onions until golden brown. Add tomato pulp or tomato paste, sour cream and spices. Water can be poured either into a frying pan or into a saucepan, after first placing the frying on the peppers.
Cover the container with the peppers and bring the sauce to a boil. Then simmer for about 40 minutes over moderate heat.
To check the doneness of the peppers, simply taste them. Rice, meat and vegetables must be completely cooked.
Remove the peppers from the stove and leave them covered for 10–20 minutes so that they are completely saturated with the sauce and become even tastier and more aromatic.
alex9500/Depositphotos.com You can cut the tops off the peppers, as when stewing on the stove, or cut the vegetables in half lengthwise, leaving the stems if desired. In both cases, you need to remove the seeds from the peppers.
Stuff the peppers with the prepared filling. Grease a baking sheet or baking dish with vegetable oil and place the peppers in a single layer.
To make the dish juicier, brush the tops of the peppers or sour cream mixed with chopped garlic.
Place the peppers in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 40 minutes. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake for about 10 minutes until melted.
Prepare the ingredients.
Wash the pepper, carefully cut out the seed box, rinse again to remove seeds and dry with paper towels.
Heat a little oil in a saucepan, add the peppers and lightly fry on all sides.
Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
Prepare the filling.
Rinse the rice, add water and boil until half cooked (about 5-7 minutes).
Wash the carrots, peel and grate on a coarse grater or a Korean carrot grater.
Peel the onion and cut into quarter rings.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add onion, add a little salt and pepper and fry for about 15-20 minutes, over low heat, until soft.
Slide the onion with a spatula to the edge of the pan, add the carrots, lightly salt and fry, stirring, until the carrots soften a little (about 3-4 minutes).
In a large bowl, combine minced meat, rice and fried onions and carrots.
Wash the tomatoes, make a cross-shaped cut on each one, put them in boiling water for 30-60 seconds, then quickly transfer them to ice water and remove the skins.
Cut the tomatoes into small cubes.
Peel the garlic and pass through a garlic squeezer.
Wash the greens, dry and chop.
Add tomatoes, ketchup, garlic, herbs, salt, sugar and freshly ground pepper to the minced meat.
Mix the minced meat well (it’s convenient to mix with your hands).
Fill the prepared peppers with minced meat and place in a saucepan or other thick-walled container.
Prepare tomato-sour cream sauce.
Combine sour cream with ketchup and mix.
Pour in water and stir again.
Season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste.
Pour the resulting sauce over the pepper.
Simmer the pepper over low heat, covered, for about 40-60 minutes.
Turn off the heat and let sit for another 10 minutes.
How cute they are, so appetizing and very cheerful, I would say.
For this culinary masterpiece you will need a small amount of sweet multi-colored bell peppers, but if you have a huge amount of them, then don’t hesitate to make them
What do you think can be used to stuff peppers? What fillings, from what ingredients? The most common are minced meat and rice, which you will learn about today from this article.
Interesting! You can come up with a great variety of fillings, for example, make them with meatless eggplants, mushrooms, cabbage, vegetables, cottage cheese, cheese and eggs, buckwheat, without rice, etc.
By the way, you can make a preparation for the winter using your freezer, just peel fresh washed dry fruits, remove seeds and stems, place them in a bag and freeze, and then at any time you can take them out and cook something.
You can make this dish at any time of the year, as long as you have pepper, rice and any meat. A mixed type of minced meat is best: beef + pork, but in general you can take absolutely any kind, even turkey or chicken.
Take this step-by-step option, bookmark the page and get creative!
We will need:
- minced meat - 400 g
- rice - 70-80 g
- sweet bell pepper -6-9 pcs.
- carrots - 1-2 pcs.
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp
- sour cream - 2 tbsp
- garlic - 2 cloves
- salt and pepper to taste
Cooking method:
1. Take the required amount of rice and pour boiling water over it with hot water, set aside to stand for 10-15 minutes, covering with a lid. If the rice is very dirty, then of course you should sort it out first.
Important! People often ask what kind of rice is needed for this dish? It is best to take round-grain rice, it has better taste, or for Japanese cuisine it is fine and small.
2. The next step is peppers. You need to do the following work with them: wash them under running cold water, and then use a knife to cut out the core in a circle, removing the seeds and partitions.
Important! If you do not remove the partitions, bitterness may occur, keep this in mind.
3. Next, grate the carrots on a fine grater, chop the onions finely with a knife. Chop the garlic very finely with a kitchen knife. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it and then add chopped onion and garlic, stir. Fry until the onion begins to turn golden.
Transfer the vegetables to a plate and let cool slightly.
4. Now prepare the minced meat; if you have it frozen, then defrost it at room temperature first. Dip some of the fried vegetables into it - more than half, the rest will be used for another purpose. Stir. Then strain the rice filled with water through a sieve or colander and send it here. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5. Stuff the peppers with the prepared filling. You should not compact it too hard, as the rice will become soft during cooking.
6. Take a pan and place the remaining fried vegetables on the bottom. Then place the peppers in a vertical position in a circle.
7. For a cool filling you will need tomato paste and sour cream, put these ingredients in a glass and mix together. Add ground black pepper, add about 0.5 tsp - 1 tsp of salt, depending on your taste. Pour water into it to make a whole glass of liquid, stir.
Important! Sour cream can be replaced with mayonnaise.
8. Pour this mixture over the stuffed peppers. Then take more water and pour over all the peppers until there is about 2-3 cm left to the edge.
9. Place over medium heat, cover with a lid and simmer for 40-45 minutes from the moment it boils. 5 minutes before readiness, stick in a bay leaf and throw in a few peppercorns.
10. This is how beautiful the stewed peppers in sour cream are, juicy and aromatic! Looks very nice, simply delicious, you'll lick your fingers!
Serve these delicacies with any side dish, for example, mashed potatoes or brew as a drink
Stuffed peppers with minced meat and rice in a slow cooker
For variety, you can easily make this dish in a miracle machine called a multicooker. I really like cooking with it because it is fast, easy and quick. As they say, I crammed everything in there and went about my household chores.
Therefore, whoever has such an opportunity, use it more often to prepare various second and first courses.
We will need:
- large bell pepper - 4-6 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- garlic - 4 cloves
- potatoes - 1 pc.
- rice - 3-4 tbsp
- carrots - 0.5 pcs.
- small zucchini - 1 pc.
- dill - bunch
- seasoning for minced meat - to taste
- chicken fillet – 400 g
Cooking method:
1. From these ingredients, namely chicken meat, raw potatoes, onions, fresh peeled carrots, garlic, peeled zucchini; Twist everything through a meat grinder.
Chop the dill with a kitchen knife and add it there.
Add salt, add seasoning for minced meat and mix everything thoroughly with your hands.
Maybe! You may be surprised that so many different ingredients go into this filling, but believe me, it turns out very tender and juicy, and also dietary, since chicken meat is considered a lean option.
2. The crucial moment is stuffing the peppers. First, rinse them well, remove the center and seeds, you can simply cut off the top, but don’t throw it away, it will be a kind of lid, and for the table it will look like a beautiful decorative decoration, like a pepper with a surprise. Stuff the resulting filling inside.
So, place the peppers in the multicooker bowl, fill about half of the peppers with water.
3. Now cover with a lid, select the “Stew” mode for 40 minutes. And you can go do some other things.
4. What beautiful little yellow doves fried in a slow cooker with minced chicken and rice turned out. Serve them in a good mood and with sour cream, or mayonnaise.
How to cook stuffed peppers in halves with cheese in the oven
The next option is quite dietary and healthy, because it is recommended to cook absolutely everything in the oven, and this dish is no exception. The highlight of this delicious delicacy will be the cheese.
We will need:
- bell pepper - 3 pcs.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- cheese - 200 g
- minced meat - 0.5 kg
- onion - 1 pc.
- greens to taste
- vegetable oil - 2-4 tbsp
- salt and pepper to taste
Cooking method:
1. The very first step is to prepare all the ingredients according to the list.
Finely chop the carrots and onions with a knife.
2. Place the chopped vegetables in a frying pan and fry them in vegetable oil. Fry until the onion becomes golden and the carrots are soft, sauté for 3-5 minutes, stirring.
4. Make boats from bell peppers; to do this, cut each pepper in half, remove the tail, core and seeds. Place the filling inside, just like in this photo. Place it like this, first the minced meat, and then a rectangular piece of cheese, then again the minced meat. The cheese should appear in the middle of the minced meat.
The cheese consumption is as follows: 100 g goes to the middle, and the remaining 100 g is to grate and decorate the peppers.
5. To ensure that the peppers are steamed well, you can cover them with foil. Place in the oven preheated at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Important! You don't have to use foil, it's optional.
6. After time, sprinkle grated cheese on top. Place in the oven without foil for another 5 minutes to melt the cheese.
Important! You can bake not for 20 minutes, but for 30-40, depending on your oven, and what kind of peppers you prefer, crispy or soft.
7. These baked peppers with minced meat in the oven will turn out very appetizing and tempting.
Serve with any or potatoes. Delicious discoveries to you!
Baked minced peppers and rice with gravy
Another cooking option, watch this video from YouTube and you can happily and easily diversify today’s menu for lunch or dinner. There is one very interesting feature in this preparation, it is hidden in an unusual filling:
Stuffed peppers stuffed with minced meat, rice and carrots
You can prepare this holiday dish right now using these available ingredients. This option uses mushrooms such as champignons; you can, in principle, use any others, or not use them at all.
We will need:
- minced pork and beef - 500 g
- mushrooms - 4 pcs.
- rice - 70 g
- carrots - 1 pc.
- onion - 1 pc.
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- bell pepper - 4 pcs.
- salt and pepper to taste
- cheese - 150 g
Cooking method:
1. Start by preparing the filling, finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Wash the rice, and then add all the ingredients to the minced meat. Stir. Season with salt and pepper.
Important! To make the minced meat juicy, pour half a glass of water into it and stir everything well.
Cut the champignons into small cubes and add to the minced meat.
2. Prepared peppers (they need to be washed, all the insides removed, and cut into halves-boats). Stuff with filling. Top with tomato circles. Place on a baking sheet or pan greased with olive or vegetable oil.
Turn on the oven and bake for 40-50 minutes at 180 degrees until almost done.
3. Then at the end, take it out and sprinkle with grated cheese. Then place it back in the oven to melt the cheese.
4. What a bright and fragrant beauty the halves turned out in the oven. Cook with joy for your loved ones.
This dish can be a pleasant addition to any side dish, as well as serve as a cold appetizer.
Peppers stuffed with vegetables - the most delicious recipe
Well, another very interesting and unusual option can be made, if you really like vegetables, watch it right now in this short video.
That's all for me, I wish your peppers to be a great success. This quick and very tasty dish, which absolutely everyone likes, will be any addition to any celebration or feast.
I hope it was useful to you. See you all soon on this blog. Read me more often not only here, but also on the contact pages in my group. Bye everyone. See you later.
