How to make peppers stuffed with meat and rice

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  second courses

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

• Designed for

  For a family of 4 servings

Ingredients

• minced pork
• Sweet pepper
• onion
• tomato paste
• spices
• rice
• carrot
• salt
• ground pepper

There are many recipes with photos, according to which housewives can cook peppers stuffed with meat and rice. Such a dish turns out to be very satisfying, aromatic and tasty. And in order for the meat filling to turn out delicious, it is necessary to properly prepare the products for this dish.

Pepper is prepared in different ways, it is boiled and stewed in sauce, baked in the oven, and also cooked in a slow cooker. You can make blanks from pepper for the winter, just peel the vegetable from seeds, and then put it in a bag and freeze it. In winter, the preparations are started with minced meat and rice, and then prepared by any chosen method.

Traditional Stuffed Pepper Recipe

This is one of the most common and easiest ways to make peppers.

The dish turns out to be very tasty, and if you want to get a richer taste of the gravy, you should add more tomato paste than indicated in the recipe.

Ingredients:

• minced pork - 570 grams;
• spices to taste;
• sweet pepper - 7 pieces;
• onion - 1 piece;
• tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
• long grain rice - 12 cups;
• coarse salt - to taste;
• fresh carrots - 1 piece.

Cooking process:

To cook pepper stuffed with meat and rice, you must strictly follow the recipe with the photo. First, minced meat is prepared, it is best to take pork and beef in half, but if this is not possible, only pork is used.

In the meantime, bell peppers are prepared, washed and cleaned of seeds.

Rice is washed several times in water, and then boiled until half cooked. Groats must be placed in cold water. Onions are peeled and then chopped very finely. You should also peel the carrots and chop the vegetable on a grater. Both products are sent to the pan and fried until tender.

Minced meat is mixed with vegetable frying, after which cooked rice is added to it. When adding vegetables, only half of the resulting mass is used.

If there is no tomato paste at home, you can replace it with fresh tomatoes, but in this case, the skins are removed from the vegetables, and the prepared pulp is grated.

The rest of the vegetable preparation is mixed with tomato paste and stewed for several minutes. If fresh tomatoes are used, then they make the dish sweeter, in this case it is worth adding more salt to the preparation.

Prepared pepper is stuffed with minced meat, you can do it with a spoon or with your hands. From the remnants of the meat filling, roll the meatballs and stew them along with the peppers.

The blanks are sent to the pan, and then vegetables stewed with tomato paste are transferred to them. Pour the peppers with a little water and begin to simmer under the lid.

If the fruits are small, then the cooking process lasts about forty minutes, large peppers are cooked for more than an hour.

Stuffed peppers in the oven with boats

This option for cooking stuffed with meat pepper with the addition of rice is very popular, if you follow the recipe with the photo, you can get a dish that guests will like at a big celebration or an evening dinner.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet or meat - 860 grams;
• hard cheese of any kind - 145 grams;
• fat sour cream - 2 tablespoons;
• ripe tomato - 1 piece;
• Bulgarian pepper - 6 pieces;
• onion - 1 piece;
• coarse salt - to taste;
• Italian herbs - 3 grams;
• rice - 12 cups.

Cooking process:

First, peel the tomato from the skin, also peel the onion head, chop both vegetables with a knife. You should also twist the chicken fillet with a meat grinder

Salt and the necessary seasonings are added to the resulting ingredients, sour cream is added to the latter. The filling mixes well and is removed to the side

Rice is washed in water several times and then boiled until tender. Ready-made groats are added to the filling and everything is re-mixed

The sweet peppers are washed in water, then cut into two halves and the seeds removed. There is no need to remove the ponytails

Vegetables are filled with prepared filling, and then transferred to a baking sheet, which has been covered with parchment

Such peppers should be cooked for half an hour, sometimes it takes a little more time. Five minutes before the dish is completely cooked, sprinkle the peppers with grated cheese

As soon as the cheese is melted and browned, you can serve the dish to the table. The result is a very tasty pepper stuffed with meat and rice, cooked according to the recipe with the photo

Stuffed peppers in sour cream sauce

The filling will contain spices and aromatic herbs that add taste and exquisite aroma. You can change the composition of the dish, using the spices to your liking.

Ingredients:

• minced pork - 330 grams;
• fat sour cream - 1500 grams;
• sweet pepper - 4 pieces;
• fresh carrots - 1 piece;
• tomato paste - 12 cups;
• long grain rice - 12 cups;
• herbs and spices to taste;
• coarse salt - to taste;
• ground pepper - to taste;
• citric acid - 2 grams.

Cooking process:

1. To begin with, the peppers are washed well and cleaned of seeds and stalks.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the minced pork with rinsed rice. Carrots, chopped with a grater, are also added there. In addition to the minced meat, fresh herbs and spices are added, salted and ground pepper is added to the mixture. A spoonful of fatty sour cream is added last, and the same amount of tomato paste. The ingredients are mixed until smooth.
3. The resulting minced meat is filled with pepper, after which the workpieces are transferred to a cauldron or gosyatnitsa. In the meantime, a sauce of sour cream and tomato paste is being prepared, in addition a little citric acid is added there. You can take more pasta and sour cream than indicated in the recipe.
4. You need to get a lot of sauce, the mixture should fill the container more than half. Additionally, poured into a container with peppers and sauce, half a glass of water. After that, chopped garlic and hot spices are placed in the cauldron if the hostess wants to get a fragrant and spicy dish.
5. The peppers are cooked over medium heat for forty minutes or more, covered with a lid. The result is very aromatic peppers stuffed with meat and rice. The recipe with a photo makes it possible to understand the cooking process in order to get delicious peppers.

Pepper with vegetables

One of the best options for making pepper, which is stuffed not only with meat, but also with vegetables, additionally, mushrooms will be included in the filling.

Ingredients:

• fresh carrots - 2 pieces;
• sweet pepper - 1 kg;
• fresh mushrooms - 320 grams;
• onions - 2 pieces;
• rice groats - 150 grams;
• purified water - 1 liter;
• tomato paste - 4 tablespoons;
• ground pepper - 5 grams;
• coarse salt - to taste;
• fresh herbs - 1 bunch;
• odorless sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons;
• minced beef - 430 grams.

Cooking process:

1. To cook peppers stuffed with meat and rice, according to this recipe from the photo, you should start preparing vegetables. To do this, the onions are peeled and washed, and then chopped with a sharp knife, you should also peel the carrots and grate them.
2. The mushrooms are cut into pieces, after which they are sent to the pan and fried for several minutes until the liquid evaporates. After that, onions and carrots are sent there, everything is stewed for about ten minutes, until the vegetables become soft.
3. Rice is boiled until half cooked, greens are washed and cut very finely. Vegetables with mushrooms should be combined with herbs, add minced meat and rice, which make up the gloves, and add salt there. Everything is thoroughly mixed to obtain a homogeneous mixture.
4. Meanwhile, the peppers are prepared, they are washed, cleaned of seeds, and then stuffed with meat filling. The blanks are put in a saucepan and left for a while, in the meantime, the tomato filling is being prepared.
5. Tomato paste is diluted in a liter of hot water, after which salt and ground pepper are added there. Pour the peppers with the resulting sauce and put on fire, having previously closed the container with a lid. The peppers are boiled for about half an hour, if the pieces are large, it may take more time.

For dietary nutrition, it is recommended to use chicken fillet or turkey meat for the filling. These foods do not contain fat and are therefore low in calories. Garlic, aromatic herbs and hot spices are added to the dish as aromatic additives. And to set off the taste of the sauce, you should use fresh herbs.