Bell pepper is an excellent vegetable. He is loved in different variations. For example, children like to eat it fresh, as it is sweet and crispy. And men are crazy about stuffed peppers, juicy, with fragrant minced meat inside. Also, not everyone knows that this particular type of pepper can become the basis for many original dishes. For example, the ratatouille, which became known after the release of the eponymous cartoon, can be prepared by any hostess. He looks appetizing, so they can surprise guests.
Delicious salads. Vegetable dish
The simplest recipe with bell pepper is a vegetable salad. Probably everyone cooks it his own way. But below is the best option. You will need:
- One bell pepper.
- Two tomatoes.
- Fresh basil - a sprig.
- One big fresh cucumber.
- Olives - about ten.
- Brynza - 100 grams.
- Olive oil for seasoning.
- Ground black pepper.
- Salt if necessary.
It is worth noting that feta cheese is salty cheese, so before you add salt to the salad, you need to check it for taste. All vegetables are washed. Tomatoes and cucumbers are cut into cubes, feta cheese in larger pieces. Olives are cut into circles. Finely chop the basil. Bell peppers are peeled from seeds, cut into thin strips. Sprinkle the salad with black pepper, season with olive oil. You can also replace cheese with grated hard cheese. Then season salad with sour cream.
Original Chinese salad
This dish can be a decoration on any table. According to the recipe with a photo of bell pepper, it is easy to cook any dish. For Chinese salad, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- 350 grams of pepper;
- 200 grams of chicken;
- 250 grams of carrots;
- 300 grams of radish;
- 300 grams of cucumbers.
Serving of lettuce looks best in a scrambler, that is, in a dish divided into sectors, in the middle of which there is a place for sauce. But you can independently distinguish any flat plate by installing a saucepan in the middle. To prepare it directly, you need to take:
- Five tablespoons of soy sauce.
- As much cold boiled water.
- Three cloves of garlic.
This salad with bell pepper and chicken looks really appetizing.
How to make a salad? Very simple!
Making a salad using this recipe is a very simple process. First cook the chicken. It must be boiled in salted water until tender. It usually takes twenty to thirty minutes. When it cools, it is cut into small cubes.
Peppers are washed and cleaned. You can also take two bell peppers of different colors, so it will be even brighter and more interesting. This ingredient is also cut into cubes.
Cucumber with peel is passed through a coarse grater or cut into thin strips. Carrots, like radishes, are rubbed into different containers on a medium grater.
For the sauce, mix water and soy dressing. Finely chop the garlic and add to the liquid. There are two options for serving such a salad. In the first, the sauce is placed in the center, and all the ingredients are laid out separately around it. Served on the table, and already at a party, all watered with sauce and mix. The second option is to put the chicken fillet in the center, pour the sauce all at once, and the guests will independently choose the ingredients to their taste.
Baked pepper appetizer
Not everyone knows how tasty bell peppers are in the oven. It opens, gives off the aroma. To prepare a simple original snack you need:
- Three peppers, better than red.
- 80 grams of any cream cheese.
- 80 grams of cottage cheese with a fat content of five percent.
- Salt and pepper.
- Basil leaves or dried herbs.
Bell pepper rolls with cheese and cottage cheese - this is really interesting and tasty!
How to cook aromatic appetizer with cottage cheese?
First, prepare the sauce, since it takes time to brew. To do this, combine cream cheese, cottage cheese, salt and spices in a blender bowl. Basil leaves are also placed here. All crushed to a pasty state. Allow to stand in the refrigerator for at least thirty minutes. You can replace basil with any spice, but it is this spice that is best suited.
Peppers are washed. Remove the stalk, wipe with a towel. Heat the oven to 180-200 degrees. Send peppers there on a baking sheet. When the peel begins to burn in places, take out the vegetables. Now cut the pepper into strips. It is necessary to act carefully, as there remains hot juice inside, which can be used in sauces or soups. The skin peels off from the baked pepper simply, therefore it needs to be removed.
Each strip is smeared with sauce, rolled into a roll and fixed with wooden toothpicks.
Bell pepper with meat. Hungarian goulash soup
Cooked according to the Hungarian traditional recipe, bell pepper with beef is a hearty dish that does not require additions. To cook it, you need the following products:
- Two sweet peppers.
- 400 grams of meat.
- One carrot.
- Three potato tubers.
- One bow.
- One tomato.
- Six cloves of garlic.
- Paprika - 30 grams.
- Salt and pepper.
- Vegetable oil.
The soup consists of many ingredients, which makes it very rich and aromatic.
Cooking soup
First, take a saucepan, pour a little vegetable oil. Peel the onion, cut into cubes, send to fry. After a couple of minutes, finely chopped garlic is added to this product. Then the turn of paprika and salt. All are mixed. Beef is cut into large cubes, sent to fried vegetables, a little water is added and stewed under the lid for about an hour and a half. While you can chop the vegetables. Tomato peeled, cut into cubes. Carrots tinder on a coarse grater. Potatoes are cut randomly, for example, into slices or cubes. Bell pepper - in thin strips. All but pepper are sent to stew. About half a liter of water is added. Fifteen minutes before readiness, they send to the pan and bell pepper. Often this dish is served with sour cream and fresh herbs.
Stuffed Peppers with Bulgur
How can you do without a recipe for stuffed peppers? Many housewives bring something new to the recipe. So, bulgur is used in this.
The following products are needed for cooking:
- Four large red peppers.
- 2.5 liters of chicken stock.
- 300 grams of minced meat, such as turkey.
- One large onion.
- 300 grams of bulgur.
- Salt and pepper.
- Vegetable oil.
- Green onion - 30 grams.
To begin with, it is worth boiling bulgur until half ready. Then proceed to the preparation of peppers. Washed fruits. Then cut off the part with the stalk so that a lid is obtained. The rest is removed from seeds and partitions to make cups.
Vegetable oil is poured into the pan, the onions are finely cut and fried for a couple of minutes. A green onion is also added to this, they are extinguished for five to six minutes. Mix the onion mixture with bulgur and minced meat, mix thoroughly, add the necessary spices. Stuff the peppers with minced meat, put them in a saucepan, pour the broth, cover with peppers and simmer over low heat until cooked. Served with tomato or sour cream sauce.
Ratatouille - original and tasty
One of the dishes with bell pepper, which consists of vegetables, is ratatouille. It looks very bright, and the taste is really juicy and tasty. To cook it, you need:
- 4 peppers
- six tomatoes;
- 4 medium-sized eggplant;
- 4 zucchini;
- one onion head;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- vegetable oil;
- spice.
Tomatoes, eggplant, tomatoes and zucchini are cut into circles. Peppers are baked in the oven to peel off it, and then cut into squares, thick enough. Then vegetables are stacked in turn, for example, eggplant, pepper, zucchini, tomato, but the order can be anything.
Prepare the sauce. Onions are fried in vegetable oil. It must be cut very finely. Oil, salt and garlic passed through a press are combined, put onions there, mix. Pour the vegetables with oil. Sent to the oven. The baking time at a temperature of 180 degrees is a little more than twenty minutes.
Bell pepper is a very tasty and tender vegetable. In salads, it is bright and juicy, and when baked it becomes soft and fragrant. Salads, flavored snacks are prepared from it, it is stuffed with meat, mushrooms and cereals. Vegetable dishes, such as ratatouille, are also cooked with bell pepper. But it is especially worth noting the spicy beef soup, which all men love.