Stuffed peppers are perhaps the main dish of almost any self-respecting housewife. At the same time, each one adds something of its own to the recipe: some add greens, others prefer only minced meat, and without rice, others like sourness in the peppers, and put tomatoes. In general, there are a lot of options for how to cook deliciously stuffed peppers , each of them is unique in taste. Now let's talk about how to make this dish right.
How to
cook stuffed peppers, people in France know. These products came to us from the south of this country. There, however, initially these vegetables were not prepared at all, but their “colleagues” - tomatoes. It was they who began to be stuffed before everyone else. It turned out about the same dish as our meal. How to cook delicious
stuffed peppers, the French knew thoroughly. When this recipe arrived in Russia, they began to modify it in our restaurants. First, tomatoes were replaced by peppers, since they were much easier and cheaper to get on the market at any time of the year. Then they began to add a small amount of rice to make the dish even more savory. The final version, no matter how trite it may sound, was combined with tomato sauce. And it was in this form that he came to our days. Nowadays, many of us love this dish, but not everyone knows how to cook deliciously stuffed peppers. Now we will share this secret.
To begin with, we will determine the ingredients that we will need to prepare the dish. Take
Bulgarian pepper, minced meat, 200 grams of peeled rice, 2 tablespoons of tomato paste or a few fresh tomatoes, 2 onions, 2 carrots, vegetable oil, bay leaf and various seasonings. It should be noted that for cooking we need not very fatty stuffing. You can take beef or pork, the most important thing is the lack of a large amount of fat. Tomatoes or pasta - you decide, but remember that you should not get acidic products. How to cook deliciously stuffed peppers without adding tomatoes? Very simple - put more onions. They will come out more juicy and sweet. Another way is to take not red, but red bell peppers, which in themselves will be sweeter in taste.
Now we begin the process of preparing our dish.
Naturally, first we rinse the bell pepper and clean it from the core (carefully so that there are no seeds left inside!).
Fry carrots and onions until golden brown, and boil the rice until half cooked. We mix all the ingredients with each other, add salt, spices, mix everything thoroughly and put inside the peppers. Here it is necessary to warn - do not put a lot of filling, otherwise the vegetable may burst during cooking.
Put the prepared peppers on a baking sheet, on top you can lay onions and bay leaves in half rings. We put in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
Today we told you about how to cook deliciously stuffed peppers, where did this dish come from. We hope you understand too. Good luck in the preparation of a delicious and satisfying meal.