Stuffed peppers - a delicious, delicious dish. Using different methods of extinguishing, you can get a variety of options. Peppers are stuffed with various fillings: vegetables, meat, adding rice and other cereals. In our article, we will talk about how to deliciously put out stuffed peppers so that the dish becomes the decoration of your table.
Little cooking secrets
How to cook stuffed peppers deliciously ? How to put out to make the dish fragrant? Starting to cook it, you need to know some little tricks:
- For minced meat, rice should be boiled until half cooked. If you plan to use raw cereals, then stuffing pepper is not worth tight.
- To get a good taste, minced vegetables should be added not raw vegetables, but slightly fried in oil.
- For cooking, it is better to take peppers of the same size.
- After boiling, simmer the dish on low heat. The pan must be covered with a lid. The duration of the preparation depends on the filling.
- For cooking, it is better to take homemade minced meat.
What is the best way to stew stuffed peppers ?
How to put out a dish and what? This is the most asked question by the hostesses. Let's discuss all possible options:
- Vegetables can be stewed simply in water with the addition of pepper and salt. To do this, they are laid one to one very tightly in a pan. Water is salted, pepper is put and the resulting solution is poured into a bowl of peppers. Be sure to add a bay leaf. Next, put the pan on the fire, bring the dish to full readiness.
- In addition, pepper can be stewed in sour cream. To do this, you need to dilute sour cream with water, mix well, add salt, pepper. Pour pepper with the resulting sauce, bring to a boil, then cook over very low heat until cooked.
- The dish can also be stewed in sour cream and tomato sauce. For this, pepper is poured with a special mixture. The sauce is prepared as follows: two tablespoons of tomato paste are diluted in water (400 grams), spices are added, combined with sour cream (300-400 grams).
- Pepper can be stewed in tomato juice. To do this, you need only the juice itself, spices and salt. Or you can use tomato sauce. She is preparing like this. In a blender we put tomatoes, greens cut into several parts, you can also add garlic. Grind it all. The resulting mass is filled with peppers and stew. If the sauce is too thick (it all depends on the tomato), then it can be diluted with water.
Cooking pepper in the oven
To solve the problem of how to stew stuffed peppers deliciously, you can cook it in the oven. This will require:
- Pork - 0.3 kg.
- Rice - ½ cup.
- Beef - 0.3 kg.
- One onion.
- Garlic
- Dill is a bunch.
- Salad pepper - 7 amount
- Butter.
- Spices to taste.
We cut lettuce pepper into halves and clean the seeds. It needs to be blanched in boiling water for a couple of minutes. The pulp of beef and pork must be passed through a meat grinder, adding onions (garlic, if desired). The resulting minced pepper, salt.
Rice should first be boiled and added to the meat. Grind greens there too. The resulting mass fill the pepper and put it in a baking dish. At the bottom of the dishes should pour a little water. You can put a piece of oil on each half. Then we close the form with foil and send it to the preheated oven (200 degrees).
The dish will be cooked for at least half an hour. In finished form, it is served with sour cream. Surely you will like this stuffed pepper! We figured out how to put it out in the oven, but there are other cooking options.
Pepper in a slow cooker: ingredients
For example, there is a recipe for putting out stewed peppers. This, by the way, is very simple. An invention such as a slow cooker generally simplifies the life of housewives. So why not use it to prepare your meals!
Ingredients:
- Stuffing - 450 g.
- Pepper - 10 pcs.
- Two onions.
- A glass of rice.
- Two carrots.
- Sunflower oil.
- Spice.
- Salt.
- Bay leaf.
- Four tomatoes.
- Garlic.
To prepare the sauce you will need:
- sour cream - 170 g;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- pepper and salt;
- water.
Cooking in a slow cooker
In a slow cooker, any dish turns out well, including stuffed peppers (how to put out a dish, we will describe further in the article).
It is no secret that the dish will turn out much tastier if the vegetables are previously fried. A multicooker can help with this. To do this, select the "Frying" mode. At the bottom of the tank, load the ingredients and simmer them for 25 minutes. And you can do the frying in the usual way in a pan. Fry onions and carrots first, and then add tomato paste or tomatoes. Of course, it is more convenient to use a slow cooker. Our participation is not required there. And while the vegetables are cooked, we can do meat.
In a separate bowl, mix two types of meat, add rice, spices, salt, half the processed vegetables. All mix well. Some vegetables along with gravy should remain in the slow cooker. We will put our blanks there.
Wash the pepper and remove the seeds. Fill them with minced meat and put in a slow cooker. Now let's make the sauce. In water, stir the sour cream, adding flour, pepper and salt. Mix the ingredients well with a whisk. Pour pepper with the mixture, add bay leaf, herbs, garlic. Close the slow cooker and set the “Baking” mode. The dish will be cooked for at least an hour. You can use the "Extinguishing" mode, then cooking will drag on to 1.5-2 hours.
How to cook frozen peppers
If you stuffed a lot of pepper for the future, then you do not have to cook it all at once. It can simply be sent to the freezer until you need it. It is very comfortable. Moreover, modern freezers are large and allow long-term storage of any products.
The question arises - and in this case, how to put out the pepper? Stuffed frozen peppers are cooked in much the same way as fresh peppers. You need to get the workpieces out of the freezer and let them thaw a little (just a little, they should not completely melt, having lost their shape). Next, you also put the pepper in the dishes in which you intend to cook, pour the vegetables with the sauce and send to the oven. You can use the slow cooker.
Cooking pepper in a pan
There is another way to cook. Let's talk about how to stew stuffed peppers in a pan. To do this, we need thick-walled dishes with high sides.
The use of a Teflon pan and stewpan is allowed. Peppers are cooked according to one of the recipes, then placed in a bowl and poured with sauce. It should be remembered that they must be completely covered with liquid. This is a prerequisite. Then we cover the dishes and send the dish to stew on the slowest fire until ready. The process will take from forty minutes to an hour.