How to cook pepper stuffed in the oven - recipes and recommendations

Bulgarian pepper is useful and tasty. It is used in salads, vegetable ragout, soups. But the most common dish is pepper stuffed. The filling for pepper can be meat or vegetable. But whatever it was, the preparation of pepper for the stuffing is the same.

Raw fresh pepper spice and non-stop. To clean it, quick heat treatment is required. If we are going to put it out, then just pour the pepper for two minutes into boiling water or even just scald. If we are planning to make pepper stuffed in the oven, then it is better to fry it or bake it slightly (no more than 2-3 minutes). After heat treatment, cut off the top of the pepper and carefully, trying not to damage the flesh, we clean the seeds and the seed box. Usually at home, thin peel pepper is not specially removed, but if it is removed easily, it is better to do it. Pepper is ready to be stuffed. The recipe "pepper stuffed in the oven" is not too complicated, it takes no more than 15 minutes to prepare the half-finished product for baking.

So, to prepare the pepper stuffed (in the oven) with minced meat, we need a few pieces of Bulgarian pepper (at the rate of 2 pieces per serving), half a kilogram of minced meat (if you mix beef and pork in a 2: 1 ratio, it will be tastier and juicier) , A glass of rice and sour cream, carrots, onions, tomatoes (all in 2-3 pieces of medium size), spicy greens, salt, ground black pepper, any vegetable oil.

It takes much less time to prepare the pepper than for onions, carrots and rice. Therefore, cook the rice until half-ready, drain the water. Finely chopped onions and grated carrots are fried separately in vegetable oil in the same way as rice, until half cooked. We make a filling for pepper: we connect all components (onions, carrots, rice) with minced meat, mix well. Solim and pepper. Densely and accurately we fill each pepper with the prepared stuffing and we put in a deep frying pan, a латку or the big сотейник, preliminary having poured in ware a little vegetable oil. Sour cream is mixed with tomato paste, and pour the pepper on this sauce. We put in a hot oven and bake for 20 minutes at a temperature of 175 degrees.

Peppers can be laid, or can be installed with sharp tips down if the frying pan is small. In this case, it is necessary to cut tomatoes with mugs and, like lids, cover the holes. Serve the dish hot, watering the resulting sauce and sprinkling finely chopped greens.

If you want to make a pepper stuffed in the oven, but use a vegetable instead of a meat filling, then use the following recipe. We exclude meat from the ingredients, but add cheese (about 100 grams), two cloves of garlic, increase the portion of rice to 300 grams.

Prepare peppers in the same way as in the first option.

For the filling, cook rice until half cooked. Cut finely all the onions, one tomato - into small cubes, finely chop the garlic. Carrots rub on a large grater. On vegetable oil fry onions and carrots (5 minutes). Tomatoes, garlic, onions, carrots, rice are mixed, we add finely chopped greens. Solim, pepper. Fill the peppers with vegetable mince and put them in a deep heat-resistant saucepan.

We prepare the tomato filling: in the chopper we chop the tomatoes to the gruel, mix it with the sour cream. Pour the pepper and put it in the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 175 degrees. Five minutes before the readiness we take the saucepan and sprinkle the dish with grated cheese. Pepper stuffed, in the oven baked (with vegetables), served hot on a large dish in its own sauce. Such a vegetable delicacy will suit even the festive table.

You can make pepper, baked in the oven, and on a baking sheet. In this case, the pepper is cut into rings with the edges 2 - 2, 5 cm. We put these resulting "cups" on a baking tray, fill them with filling. Meat can be poured with sour cream or ketchup, on vegetable - put on a piece of butter. Sauce for baked pepper is prepared separately.