In our country, baked stuffed peppers can be considered a traditional dish. It is difficult to find a person who at least once in his life has not tried it. Large ribbed and bright peppers as if specially created to be stuffed with other vegetables, meat or even fruit. This cooking method allows you to pamper your family with not only a delicious, but also a healthy dish. What can we say about its aesthetic beauty. The multi-colored fruits under the “coat” of cheese and greens look just great.
Be sure to try cooking in your kitchen stuffed peppers, baked in the oven. The recipe can be absolutely any. We offer you a special selection, where there are the simplest options and the original dishes more complex in the ingredient composition.
Bell pepper stuffed with mozzarella
A surprisingly simple and very tasty dish of vegetables and meat. Mozzarella cheese and garlic add a special piquancy to the taste. The preparatory process will take no more than fifteen minutes, and the cooking itself - 45 minutes. All ingredients are based on four servings. You will need:
- Bulgarian pepper (any color) - 4 pcs.;
- ground beef - 500 g;
- medium-sized onion - 1 pc.;
- boiled rice - 180 g;
- two cloves of garlic;
- tomato sauce (liquid consistency) - 300 g;
- mozzarella - 100 g;
- salt to taste.
Cooking steps
The proposed recipe for baked stuffed peppers is quite simple. A little time - and as a result, a tasty and healthy dish on the table. The pepper must be cut off the top, clean it from the inside and rinse. In order for it to stand exactly on the baking sheet, you can cut off the lower part quite a bit. Blanch the peppers for two minutes in boiling water.
Separate stew ground beef and finely chopped onions until tender. Then pour a glass of tomato sauce, add rice, salt and garlic. Cook the mixture for another 3 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Fill the peppers with the prepared mixture and set vertically on a baking sheet (or in a glass form) greased with vegetable oil. Top with the remains of tomato sauce and cover tightly with foil. Cook in this form for ten minutes, then remove the lid and bake until cooked. At the end, sprinkle with cheese and let it melt. Stuffed baked peppers (see photo in the section above) serve as an independent dish with fresh vegetables or a green salad.
On the eve of the holidays or for children, the dish can be originally decorated. For example, as in the photo above. Use orange or yellow pepper, add eyes, nose and mouth to it and use the cut hat with the stalk.
Mexican-style stuffed peppers
This stuffed pepper recipe includes only natural and healthy ingredients. Aroma and spicy taste add oregano, cumin and hot chili to the dish. It should be served with light salads of arugula and spinach, boiled cauliflower and homemade bread. To prepare the dish you will need:
- sweet pepper with removed top and seed box - 6 pcs.;
- minced meat from turkey (chicken) - 500 g;
- cooked brown long-grain rice - 180 g;
- salsa sauce - 400 g;
- fresh or canned corn - 200 g;
- ½ tsp. chili peppers, oregano and caraway seeds;
- black beans (cooked or canned) - 180 g;
- finely chopped onion medium size.
As you can see, in order to cook baked stuffed peppers according to this recipe, rather non-standard products are required, but at the same time quite affordable. Beans can be replaced with beans, and prepare salsa sauce yourself in advance.
Cooking process
Preparing a dish is extremely simple. It is necessary to mix in a separate bowl all the ingredients for the filling, mix the mass thoroughly until smooth. Then start prepared peppers with a cut hat. After that, carefully place them in a deep baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, tightly to each other and close with the “hats” cut off earlier. Add a little water (1/3 cup) and bake in the oven over low heat for several hours, so that all the ingredients are saturated with each other's taste. Black tan marks on pepper will indicate readiness.
Spanish-style stuffed baked peppers in the oven
The original Spanish baked pepper recipe is largely reminiscent of the previous one, but has some specific features and ingredients. This is a completely vegetarian dish. Two halves of baked pepper contain 311 kcal and 3.4 g of fat. A great dinner option for those who have weight problems or are on a diet.
So, to cook pepper baked according to this recipe, you need to take the following products:
- large bell pepper (multi-colored) - 4 pcs.;
- 170 g quinoa (or rice);
- 460 ml of vegetable broth;
- 120 g salsa (or regular tomato sauce);
- 400 g of black beans (prepared);
- 170 g of corn;
- 2 cloves of garlic (chopped);
- 1.5 tsp. ground caraway seeds and red hot pepper.
These are the main ingredients that pepper will be stuffed with. In addition to them, one ripe avocado, lime juice, ground coriander, chopped red onion and a little spicy salsa sauce will be required.
How to cook?
It takes a little time for pre-processing products to cook baked stuffed peppers according to this recipe. Quinoa should be boiled in a vegetable broth until tender, the process will take about twenty minutes. In this case, the groats should become “fluffy” and absorb all the liquid. Pepper must be washed and divided into two halves, cleaned from seeds and partitions. Preheat the oven to 170-180 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with oil.
In a separate bowl, mix the cooked quinoa with the rest of the ingredients (except optional). Adjust the taste by adding salt, spices and pepper. Generously fill the halves of pepper with the mixture, place them on a baking sheet and cover with foil. Cook for about half an hour. Then remove the foil and reduce the heat, continue to bake vegetables for another 15-20 minutes.
Garnish the baked stuffed peppers in the oven (see the photo in the previous section), garnish with slices of ripe avocado, sprinkle with ground coriander and red onion, sprinkle with salsa. Serve with light greens.
Beef stuffed pepper in teriyaki sauce
The classic recipe for stuffed and baked peppers in this oven takes an unexpected turn in the direction of Asian cuisine with its best traditions. Great dinner for two, moderately spicy, sweet and sour, spicy and original. To prepare you should take:
- 100 g cooked white rice;
- 130 ml of meat broth;
- 2 large bell peppers;
- 250 g of ground beef;
- stalk of green onions (crumble oblique);
- 1 medium grated carrot
- 3 tsp brown cane sugar;
- 3 tbsp. l soy sauce;
- 1 tbsp. l chopped garlic;
- ½ tsp ground ginger root;
- 60 g mozzarella cheese.
Cooking technology
Delicious and aromatic baked peppers stuffed with meat are a great alternative to a traditional dinner. It combines immediately two components - the main dish and the vegetable side dish.
Before starting the preparation of products, you should turn on the oven and preheat it to 180 degrees. Then boil until half cooked rice in meat broth. Ground beef with carrots and a white part of the onion stalk in a pan with a small addition of vegetable oil. Vegetables should become soft, and the meat should acquire a dark brown color. In the next step, add cane sugar, ginger, garlic and soy sauce, cook until the liquid is absorbed - one or two minutes. Divide the pepper into two halves, cleanse the seeds and partitions, fill with the filling and put on a glass form greased with vegetable oil. First bake it under the foil for 30-40 minutes, and then bring it open until cooked. Sprinkle cheese and chives on top before serving.
Hearty breakfast - pepper stuffed with baked (recipe)
The photo that you see below, from the first minutes reveals the secret of an interesting presentation of this dish. A rich breakfast with tuna, egg and vegetables will fill you with energy and strength for the whole day, giving you a great mood thanks to bright colors and great taste. To prepare you will need:
- 3 bell peppers (multi-colored);
- 1 can of tinned tuna 250-300 g;
- 3 medium sized tomatoes;
- 1 tbsp. l olive oil;
- 1 onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 5 chicken eggs.
Cooking sequence
The main condition for breakfast is the speed of its preparation. First, turn on the oven 200 degrees and let it warm up. Treat tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin, free from seeds and cut into medium-sized cubes. You can do this the night before or use canned tomatoes.
Cut the pepper into halves, free from seeds and partitions. Crush one part into cubes. In warmed olive oil, fry onions until light golden brown, add garlic, tomatoes, tuna and warm for 2-3 minutes. For flavor, chopped thyme can be added. Balance the taste with the right amount of pepper and salt. Stuff the peppers with the mixture and make a small indentation in the middle. Place them on a baking sheet, pre-greased with oil, or use parchment paper. Gently break a raw egg into each half of the pepper. Bake in the oven until the protein is ready, usually it takes about fifteen minutes.
Baked stuffed peppers with tuna for breakfast - this is original, not boring and very satisfying. Cooking takes even less time if you prepare all the ingredients in advance, in the evening. In the morning you just have to fill the halves of the pepper and bake. A short time in the oven allows you to save the taste of vegetables.