Stuffed vegetables and meat are always an interesting way to cook this or that dish. The result is unusual, interesting and tasty. Among a number of such options, stuffed peppers can be distinguished. At the moment, a sufficient number of ways to create it, as well as changing the filling, have been invented. Some varieties of recipes for stuffed peppers in a slow cooker will be discussed today.
History
This dish is traditional for the following countries:
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Moldova;
- Georgia;
- Azerbaijan.
The standard recipe involves the use of peeled Gogoshar sweet pepper seeds. The vegetable is filled with beef or lamb meat, rice and grated tomatoes. Boil vertically in a pan. It is customary to eat them with sour cream.
Cooking Tips
Before cooking peppers stuffed with meat and rice in a slow cooker, you should pay attention to some useful tips given by professional chefs:
- When choosing the ingredients for cooking, you need to purchase only fresh vegetables. They should be dense, juicy and almost the same size. The latter applies to peppers. Thus, it will be possible to divide the dish into portions as evenly as possible.
- Traditional toppings include stuffed meats, some vegetables and rice. However, there is no rule prohibiting changing recipes. You can experiment and add any other ingredients depending on your preference.
- Before creating a filling mixture, rice needs to be properly processed. First, it is cooked until half cooked. After - rinse it until the water is clean.
- Before cooking stuffed peppers in a slow cooker, the vegetable must be thoroughly washed and very carefully peeled, without violating the integrity.
- To prepare the meat portion of the filling, pork, beef and veal are suitable. Other types of meat can also be used. It all depends on your preference.
- The second part of the mixture can be mushrooms, chicken, eggplant, fish and many other ingredients.
- To create the correct consistency of the filling, all components must be mixed manually. This will be better for even distribution of added spices.
- Preparing stuffed meat with peppers in a slow cooker, pan or oven, pre-wrapped in foil. The dish can be cooked, stewed or steamed.
- Standard cooking time is 60 minutes. When working with a multicooker, you can use such modes as "stewing", "baking" or "multi-cook". In the latter case, you need to set the temperature to 150 degrees. Cooking time is set for 50 minutes.
The following are some basic recipes for stuffed peppers in a slow cooker, with photos showing the results of cooking.
Traditional recipe
The easiest way to create this dish. Uses standard ingredients. To implement it, you will need:
- 9 pcs. sweet pepper. All should be the same size;
- polished rice - 150 g;
- half a kilogram of beef pulp;
- 3 onion heads;
- 1 carrot;
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- sunflower oil - 100 ml .;
- spices - depending on preferences.
Cooking process
The sequence is as follows:
- Beef is washed thoroughly under running cold water. It is dried with a paper towel and cut into small pieces;
- 2 onions to peel and wash;
- grind both ingredients with a meat grinder;
- as mentioned earlier, rice is cooked until half cooked. After that, it is washed until clean water is obtained;
- put rice and spices in the minced meat prepared earlier. Mix by hand until a uniform consistency is obtained;
- pepper removes tail and grain. Do everything very carefully. At the end of the procedure, clean the inside with water. To dry;
- put the prepared stuffing inside the vegetables. The mixture must be carefully tamped so that there are no empty spaces inside;
- peel the last onion, rinse and chop;
- Wash the carrots, peel and grate on a medium sized grater;
- add vegetable oil to the crockery utensils along with onions and carrots. Set the time - 10 minutes by selecting the program "frying" or "baking";
- add tomato paste or tomato to processed vegetables. Leave to languish for a couple of minutes;
- carefully put stuffed peppers in the slow cooker. Add sugar and a liter of hot water;
- simmer for 1 hour. The mode should be set to "stew", "soup" or "multi-cook."
Steamed pepper
This is a more complicated way of cooking, with a modified set of components for implementation. It can be used as a dietary dish. You can see the result of cooking such stuffed peppers in a slow cooker in the photo, at the end of the example.
Required Components:
- 3 pieces of sweet bell pepper. All must be the same size;
- Prepared polished rice (half-cooked and washed) - 200 g.
- 1 onion.
- 1 carrot.
- 100 g of fresh or canned mushrooms.
- Light beer - 50 ml.
- Spices - depending on preferences.
How to cook
- Peel the onion. Rinse and chop.
- Wash the carrots. Peel and chop in any shape.
- Wash the mushrooms. Separate all elements and finely chop.
- Preheat the pan. Pour in oil. Put chopped vegetables and fry for 7 minutes.
- Add mushrooms and simmer until liquid is completely removed.
- Then pour in light beer. Leave the pan for another 5 minutes.
- Add rice and spices to the finished mixture. To stir thoroughly.
- Proceed to the preparation of pepper. Cut ponytails and carefully remove all grains. Flush the inside with water. To dry.
- Download the filling inside the vegetables. Tamp so that there are no empty parts.
- Pour water into the slow cooker. From above, install the supplied grid for steaming.
- Gently load stuffed peppers into the slow cooker.
- Set the steam mode. Indicate the time - 30 minutes.
Next, share the recipe for stuffed peppers with cheese and mushrooms. Another option for this dish. To implement it, you will need the following components:
- sweet bell pepper. All of the same size - 10 pcs.;
- fresh champignons - 200 g;
- 50 g of hard cheese and 1 cream cheese;
- a bunch of dill;
- a bunch of parsley;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- 1 tbsp. l olive oil.
Cooking
- Remove the husks from the onion. Wash it and cut into small cubes.
- Rinse the mushrooms and also cut into small squares.
- Put the vegetables and butter previously sliced into the pan. Fry until liquid evaporates.
- Wash pepper under cold water. Remove ponytails and grains. Clean inside with water.
- Grate cream cheese in a separate bowl and chop greens. Add the fried vegetables there and mix well.
- Fill the “vegetable form” with the finished filling. Tamp so that there are no voids left.
- Place stuffed peppers in a slow cooker. Select the “Baking” mode and cook for 50 minutes. At the end, pour grated hard cheese and leave for another 10 minutes.
Cooking semi-finished products
Sometimes there is no time to mess around with all the ingredients for a long time, and you need to cook the dish as soon as possible. In such a situation, semi-finished products can be used. To implement this recipe you will need:
- half a kilogram of semi-finished products (stuffed peppers);
- 100 ml vegetable oil;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 3 tbsp. l pasta from tomatoes;
- 1 tsp Sahara.
Cooking process
Everything is much simpler here:
- defrost convenience foods. In the event that there is absolutely no time, then frozen foods can be used;
- peel the onion and peel the carrots. Wash and finely chop;
- pour vegetable oil into the multicooker and put vegetables. Cook in frying mode for 10 minutes;
- after - load the same peppers there;
- in a separate bowl, mix water and tomato paste with sugar. Pour into the rest of the ingredients;
- set the "Extinguishing" mode. If semi-finished foods are frozen, cook for 120 minutes. Otherwise, 1 hour.
Summary
Now you know how to cook in a slow cooker peppers stuffed with rice and meat of any kind. As mentioned earlier, you can experiment not only with the main ingredient, but also with the filling, choosing the components at your own discretion.