Stuffed peppers are a tasty and uncomplicated dish. There are a lot of cooking options, a large number of various fillings, so you can be sure they will not soon bother your homework.
This dish is a lifesaver for busy housewives. It is worth taking a little time, making blanks and freezing them for the future. Then it remains to get the peppers from the refrigerator and send them to the oven, pot or slow cooker.
If you are also a fan of this dish, pay attention to our selection of the 10 most delicious recipes for stuffed peppers with vegetables and meat. This list of the best simple cooking methods for the winter and for every day.
10. Peppers stuffed with meat and rice
Products:
- 550 g of meat
- rice - 200 g
- peppers - 9 pieces,
- bulb,
- a couple of carrots
- tomato paste (tablespoon),
- Refined oil
- salt,
- lavrushka.
Cooking:
Boil the rice, scroll the meat in a meat grinder, mix. Pass the chopped onions and carrots, put a small portion into the meat, add the tomato paste to the remaining vegetables and hold it on the fire for a little more (no more than 2 minutes).
Prepare the peppers, wash them and remove the seeds. Now you can put the filling. Put the fried vegetables in a thick-walled pan or slow cooker, put stuffed peppers in the same place, fill with water so that they are completely covered and simmer over medium heat.
15 minutes before cooking, salt and put a couple of pieces of bay leaf. Serve in a bowl, along with tomato liquid, be sure to put sour cream. If you wish, you can decorate with greens.
If you don’t like this method of cooking, you can bake peppers in the oven or steam, replace the tomato paste with sour cream or do without extra additives. It all depends on your preferences, so in the following recipes we will not focus on this stage, but will tell you more about the fillings.
You can not only cook peppers in any way that you like, but also freeze them for good.
9. Peppers stuffed with meat and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- 4 large peppers
- 400 g of pork
- 200 g of mushrooms
- bulb,
- carrot.
Cooking:
Grind meat (pork or beef) with a meat grinder. Cut the onions in half rings, grate the carrots. However, this recipe is good without carrots, focus on your taste and quantity of products.
For example, you can take more vegetables if you want to reduce the calorie content of the finished dish or save a little. Add mushrooms to vegetables, fry a little more. Do the same with meat. Peppers, stuffed meat and mushrooms.
Useful advice: if you want the dish to look spectacular, cut the pepper (choose large) into halves, put the filling, and sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Bake. This dish is ideal for a gala family dinner.
8. Peppers stuffed with vegetables
If a stuff peppers with vegetables, it will turn out no less tasty. Easy and non-nutritious version of the usual dish.
You can use absolutely any vegetables: zucchini, carrots, onions, potatoes, cabbage, celery root. We will not indicate the proportions, everything is individual here, and primarily depends on the size of your peppers.
Vegetables need to be chopped and fried in a pan. Do not forget to salt and add seasoning. If you want to make the dish more nutritious, put some boiled rice. Peppers stuffed with vegetables, it is better to stew in water with the addition of tomato paste or sour cream.
7. Peppers stuffed with buckwheat and chicken
On 7 small peppers required:
- 350 g chicken
- bulb,
- 250 g of buckwheat (boiled),
- salt.
Cooking:
Chicken and chop the onion using a blender or meat grinder. Add buckwheat, knead the minced meat, it is better to do it with your hands so that the products are evenly distributed. You can not cook cereals, but pre-pour boiling water and leave for a couple of hours. Now put the stuffing in peppers. A minimum of time, and semi-finished products of our own production are ready.
6. Peppers stuffed with rice and prunes
A good option for a lean dish. Products:
- 10 pieces of peppers,
- 200 g of prunes and rice (raw),
- bulb,
- two carrots
- vegetable oil,
- dill.
Cooking:
First peel and chop onions and carrots. Pass them in a pan. Rinse cereals and pour boiling water. Do the same with prunes, then chop it finely.
Pour rice, dried fruits and herbs into the fried vegetables. Shuffle, you can proceed to the most important thing - stuffing peppers. Preclean them from the core. It is better to stew such peppers with sauce in order to be sure that the rice is ready.
5. Peppers stuffed with feta cheese
A dish of Bulgarian cuisine, there it is called "pigs burek". It is preparing very fast. 6 peppers will need:
- 0.5 kilograms feta cheese,
- 2 tomatoes and eggs,
- refined oil.
If possible, take red peppers, in combination with white cheese they will look very impressive.
Cooking:
Mash the feta cheese, cut the tomatoes into small pieces, beat the eggs in a separate plate. Now put everything together and mix. Stuff the peppers. Brynza itself is quite salty, so whether to add salt or not depends on your preference.
This cooking option involves only baking in the oven. 25 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees, and dinner is ready.
4. Peppers stuffed with chicken, mushrooms and bulgur
Ingredients:
- 6 peppers
- 600 g chicken
- 150 g of bulgur (boiled),
- mushrooms - 100g,
- salt,
- bulb.
Cooking:
Cut the chicken into pieces and fry. Grind mushrooms, the most common option is champignons. If you have the opportunity to use fresh forest, you first need to extinguish them a little in water, and then fry them. Mushrooms can be sent immediately to the pan, add chopped onions a little later.
Mix chicken, bulgur and mushrooms. Stuff peppers with this mass and cook them in any way. If you bake, then cut the vegetables into halves and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
3. Peppers stuffed with eggplant
10 medium sized peppers required 900 g eggplant, head of garlic. Cut the eggplants into small squares, put them on a plate, pouring each layer with salt. If you skip this step, they will be bitter. After 20 - 30 minutes, squeeze the juice and put them in a skillet, fry.
Grind the garlic, mix it with the eggplant. The filling for the peppers is ready, it remains only to stuff them, and also choose the appropriate cooking method.
2. Stuffed with Potatoes and Ham
Products:
- 6 peppers and potatoes,
- 200 g ham
- green onions
- salt.
Cooking:
Potatoes boil until half cooked, cool it and cut into cubes. Ham chop. Mix both ingredients, add green onions (to taste), salt. Stuff the peppers with this filling.
It will be very tasty if you bake them in the oven (in this case, cut them into halves), smearing each vegetable with cheese and egg mixture on top. It is prepared as follows: mix a couple of eggs, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sour cream and 100 g of cheese. Top can be decorated with tomato rings.
1. Peppers stuffed with rice, carrots and onions
Another lean dish. On 10 peppers (small green with a thin skin) required:
- a glass of rice
- vegetable oil,
- a pair of onions
- four medium carrots,
- salt,
- pepper.
Cooking:
Boil the cereal until half cooked. Onions and carrots chop, fry in oil. You can do without it, just stew the vegetables in a small amount of water. Mix them with rice, salt.
If you want the dish to be tastier, use your favorite seasonings. Stuff the prepared peppers. It is better to extinguish them with vegetables and tomato paste, they are not suitable for baking.