How to cook meat with bell pepper

Nutritionists talk a lot about how meat goes well with bell peppers. This pleasant “neighborhood” makes food healthier. It is known that vegetables of this kind perfectly neutralize harmful animal proteins, which, in turn, contributes to normal digestion. There are many different cooking methods that use these foods. For example, you can consider some of the most interesting options.

Pork roasting

Pork is the world's most popular meat product. People have been using it for food for many millennia. There is a very interesting recipe with which you can very deliciously cook this meat with bell pepper and other vegetables. For work you will need: 600 grams of fresh pork, salt, 4 tomatoes, ground pepper, 1 onion, 4 pods of bell pepper, vegetable oil, as well as herbs and dried herbs.

Cooking meat with bell pepper is easy:

1. First you need to preheat the oven to at least 200 degrees.
2. At this time, it is necessary to wash the pork, dry it and carefully cut into small strips.
3. Vegetables also need to be chopped. Onions can be cut into half rings, pepper - large straws, and tomatoes just finely chop.
4. Sprinkle the onion and meat with pepper, put in a saucepan and fry in hot oil over high heat.
5. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
6. Put the stewpan with the products in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. If desired, its contents can be transferred to a baking dish.

After cooking, meat with bell pepper becomes even more tender, juicy and very fragrant.

Combined method

Beef is tougher meat. Therefore, it is better not to fry, but to stew. And to guarantee a good result - pre-marinate and add vegetables. Beef and bell pepper are best combined to taste. One of the cooking options involves the following ingredients: for 700 grams of beef you need 1 large pod of sweet pepper, 2 onions, a tablespoon of flour and 300 grams of tomatoes in your own juice.

For the marinade you need: 1 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, a pinch of nutmeg, a quarter teaspoon of a mixture of different peppers, a little olive oil, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and half a teaspoon of paprika (regular or smoked).

The work must be carried out in stages:

1. You should do meat first. Rinse it and then cut into medium sized pieces.
2. Make marinade from the selected ingredients.
3. Put the beef in a bowl, pour over the prepared mixture and leave for about 1 hour.
4. This time can be spent on preparing vegetables. Peppers need to be carefully cut into strips, having previously removed the stem and seeds from them. It is better to chop onions in half rings, and peel the tomatoes.
5. Heat the oil in a pan and lightly pass the onions in it.
6. Add pepper, and after a few minutes put the tomatoes, pour all the juice left over from them and slowly bring the mixture to a boil.
7. Fry the prepared meat in a separate frying pan, sprinkling it lightly with flour.
8. Put food together and simmer under the lid until cooked.

It turns out wonderful beef with bell pepper and vegetables. Almost any side dish (rice, potatoes or pasta) is suitable for such a delicate and juicy dish.

Stuffed pepper

How else can you cook meat with bell pepper? A recipe familiar to every Russian mistress since Soviet times is stuffing. It takes about an hour and a half to prepare such a dish. In addition, the following products will be needed: 0.6 kilograms of minced meat, 7 peppers, 200 grams of rice, 2 carrots, 20 grams of salt, 2 tomatoes, 100 grams of sour cream, 2 onions, 50 grams of vegetable oil, 2 eggs, as well as a little black pepper (ground and peas).

The process begins with the preparation of the main ingredients:

1. First of all, in salted water, you need to boil rice.
2. Chop the onion into cubes, grind the carrots, and cut the tomatoes at random.
3. After this, you need to heat the pan and fry the onions in it for 3 minutes, adding 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
4. Without stopping the process, fall asleep carrots. Pour in the remaining oil and fry the food together for another 5-6 minutes.
5. Stuff the minced meat in a deep plate. Add pepper, eggs, salt and a quarter of the contents of the pan to it.
6. Enter the rice and make the final batch. The filling is ready.
7. Now you can do the peppers. First you need to wash them, and then cut off the tail and thoroughly clean the inside of the seeds.
8. Fill the “cups” with filling and place them on the bottom of the pan.
9. Put the remaining roast and tomatoes on top.
10. Pour all the sour cream, salt and pour water so that it completely covers the peppers.
11. Put the pan on the fire, bring its contents to a boil and simmer, covering it with a lid.

After that, you just have to wait 45 minutes, and you can safely proceed to the tasting.

Without side dish

If you add potatoes to the meat stewed with bell pepper, you will end up with a dish that can be consumed without a side dish. You can cook it in a pan, but for convenience it is better to use a slow cooker. A quite familiar set of products will be required: for 600 grams of pork (it is better to take a tenderloin) - 2 sweet peppers, 1 onion, one and a half kilograms of potatoes, 4 cloves of garlic, 2 carrots, several bay leaves, 25 grams of butter and some vegetable oil, a bunch of parsley, salt , dried basil, a little ground pepper, Italian herbs and oregano.

You need to start with meat processing:

1. Pork should be washed, cut off excess fat from it and cut into medium-sized cubes.
2. Carrots are cut into strips, and onions are cut into half rings.
3. Pour a little oil into the multicooker bowl and place the meat in it. Then set the “Baking” mode for 8 minutes.
4. After that, you can add prepared vegetables.
5. Peel and cut the potatoes into 4 or 6 pieces, depending on the size of the tubers.
6. Crumble pepper into large strips.
7. Put in the bowl all the remaining components, set the "Extinguishing" mode and leave the products alone for a couple of hours, not forgetting to stir them every 30 minutes.

The result is a juicy, aromatic and very tasty stew, which practically does not need a side dish.