Summer is probably the best time to prepare delicious dishes from fresh vegetables. If you are an amateur gardener, or even a professional, then vegetables ripen in greenhouses and beds, and if you are a city dweller, then vegetables in stores become cheaper and delight you with a huge variety. When your soul asks for more vegetables, you want to make hot dishes from them. At such a moment, peppers stuffed with meat and vegetables according to the classic recipe will become a real culinary holiday for the whole family.
Go to the garden or to the market, come back with colorful ripe peppers and let's prepare our delicious lunch together. In my family, almost everyone loves peppers stuffed with meat and prefers the stewed version, when the stuffed vegetables are cooked for a long time in a fragrant tomato-sour cream broth.
But I decided to introduce you to several ways to prepare this dish. After all, everyone will eventually have their own favorite recipe.
How to cook peppers stuffed with meat and rice
This is a very simple recipe and you don’t need to free up several hours of your time. Spend very little time preparing the vegetables and minced meat, and then watch them simmer until done.
To prepare the peppers you will need:
- mixed minced meat (pork and beef) - 500-600 grams,
- sweet bell peppers - 6-8 pieces (depending on size, small ones may need more),
- rice - 0.5 cups,
- white onions - 2 pieces,
- carrots - 2 pieces,
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons (or fresh tomatoes - 3-4 pieces),
- salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
1. Start by preparing the ground meat to stuff the peppers. The best choice for this dish is the so-called homemade minced meat, which consists of half or half pork and beef. You can take store-bought ready-made minced meat or grind it yourself.
The minced meat that you prepare with your own hands will definitely be tastier, because you will know for sure that only meat was put there.
2. Wash the bell pepper and remove the seeds from the middle. This is very convenient to do by cutting off the top and removing the core with a spoon. Rinse the inside with water so that no seeds remain.
3. Rinse the rice thoroughly and boil it until half cooked. The rice will cook together with the minced meat inside the pepper until it is completely soft. Rice can be boiled even in cold water, and removed when an individual grain is only slightly hard in the middle.
Rice will help the minced meat to hold together well and not fall out of the pepper.
4. Finely chop the onion. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Then lightly fry them in a frying pan in vegetable oil until they become soft and just a little golden.
5. Mix together the minced meat, rice and half the fried onions and carrots. To do this, take a separate bowl. As you stir, add salt and pepper to taste. Leave the other half of the onions and carrots in the pan.
6. If you are not using tomato paste, but fresh tomatoes, then they must also be prepared. Remove the skin from them. This will be very easy to do if you scald them with boiling water. Then grate the pulp or grind it in a blender. Make your own tomato puree.
7. Stew the second half of the onions and carrots that we have left along with tomato puree or tomato paste. If you have tomato paste, mix it with vegetables and literally after a minute of frying, add a little water to create a kind of sauce. When stewing, add a little salt, as the tomatoes will give a sweet taste.
8. Take the prepared peppers and stuff them. The minced meat can be applied with a spoon and then compacted firmly so that it completely fills each pepper.
If there is minced meat left, it’s not a big deal. This happens to me sometimes and I make several small meatballs, which I then simmer together with peppers. It turns out very tasty.
9. Place the peppers stuffed with meat and rice in a large saucepan. Ideally, if you can fit everything into one bowl and so that the open part of the pepper is directed upward. But it’s not scary if you can cook them only on their side. In my experience, the minced meat has never fallen out of the peppers.
When you have placed the peppers, cover it on top with onions and carrots stewed in tomatoes, which were waiting in the wings in the frying pan. Pour water on top and simmer covered for about 40 minutes until the pepper is ready.
If the pepper is very large, then you can cook for up to 60 minutes, but no more.
Ready peppers are served hot and with sour cream. Bon appetit!
Stuffed peppers with meat and rice in sour cream sauce
I will share with you a recipe for stuffed peppers in sour cream sauce, which has won the greatest love in my family. Perhaps the whole point is how sour cream and tomato, mixed in the sauce, incredibly deliciously sets off and complements the sweet bell pepper, and the result is simply an amazing dish. Be sure to try cooking both options and decide which tastes better to you.
The whole secret of this recipe is that you need to simmer the stuffed peppers in the sauce, not in plain water. To do this, mix sour cream and tomato paste in a ratio of approximately 3 to 1, and then dilute with water to the required amount. Let me remind you that there should be just enough of this sauce to cover the peppers in the pan by at least two-thirds. In this case, the peppers will be stewed perfectly.
Instead of tomato paste, you can use fresh tomatoes chopped in a blender or even classic ketchup without additives. I made it with Heintz ketchup and it turned out delicious.
Now let’s watch a video recipe for preparing stuffed peppers in sour cream sauce.
Peppers stuffed with meat and rice in the oven
There is another option for preparing stuffed peppers, which is also quite wonderful and differs slightly in taste in that the peppers are not boiled and stewed, but baked. At the same time, they are quite dry and without excess liquid in the form of gravy. They can even be baked under a cheese crust, which will only make the dish tastier.
To prepare you will need:
- minced meat (can be mixed) - 500-600 grams,
- sweet pepper - 6-8 pieces,
- rice - 100 grams,
- onion - 1 piece,
- cheese - 150 grams,
- salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
1. First of all, prepare the minced meat. Rinse thoroughly and cook the rice until half cooked.
2. Cut the onion into small cubes. Then mix together the minced meat, rice and onion. Season the filling mixture with salt and pepper.
3. Wash and remove the seeds from the inside of the pepper. Cut it lengthwise into two halves to make some kind of boats. This will make them convenient to bake, because you can put them in a wide baking dish or on a baking sheet. The stuffed peppers will not collapse.
4. Fill each pepper half with minced meat. Press it down well and smooth it out. The minced meat will not be too crumbly; with this method of cooking, it will be perfectly held together by rice.
5. Place the peppers in the oven and bake them for about 20 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. At this time, grate the cheese. To sprinkle peppers stuffed with meat and rice, any hard cheese of your choice is suitable, the main thing is that it melts well and forms an appetizing golden brown crust.
6. After twenty minutes, remove the pepper from the oven and sprinkle it with grated cheese. Let the cheese bake and the dish is ready.
Stuffed bell peppers have long found their fans. This hot dish can often be found on lunch or holiday tables. It attracts with its excellent taste and the ability to experiment with different fillings.
This stuffed vegetable can be cooked either in a saucepan or in the oven. The second method is more suitable for those who love proper, healthy eating, but by and large, it all depends on the individual preferences of the cook. To prepare such a side dish, you need to think in advance about the type of filling and gravy for baking so that the masterpiece always turns out delicious. Learn how to make stuffed peppers in the oven.
The most popular recipe involves stuffing with minced meat and rice, but inventive housewives have already found many other variations, diversifying the usual serving of the dish. How to stuff peppers depends on your imagination and preferences. Cheeses, different types of meat, vegetables, minced fish, mushrooms, asparagus, sour cream, tomato sauces, and basil go well in cooking with this vegetable.
Recipes for stuffed peppers in the oven
The process of preparing different varieties of pepper is not very different and is similar in its sequence. You can take ready-made step-by-step recipes, you can improvise, add something of your own to the components, try to combine different ingredients. In any case, you need to take note that stuffed peppers in the oven will greatly improve their quality by adding herbs and spices from dried herbs.
Vegetarian stuffed peppers
This preparation of stuffed peppers is vegetarian and suitable for those who are fasting. It can be used by those who decide to go on a diet or have a fasting day, as well as housewives who want to save on meat costs. Having prepared stuffed bell peppers, the chef will decorate the table with a dietary dish that is very healthy for everyone.
Ingredients
- pepper – 15 pcs.;
- carrots – 2 pcs.;
- bulbs – 2 pcs.;
- tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
- eggplants (blue) – 5 pcs.;
- round rice – 250 g;
- sour cream or cream – 100 g;
- tomato paste – 75 g.
Preparation
- Prepare the peppers: remove the seeds, remove the stems.
- Cut and stew the eggplants and onions, boil the washed rice for 10 minutes, mix the ingredients.
- Stuff the peppers and place in a hot oven.
- Instead of sauce, fry chopped tomatoes, carrots and onions in a frying pan, add sour cream with tomato paste with spices, and simmer.
- After half an hour, add the contents of the pan to the dish and bake for another 15 minutes.
Recipe for stuffed peppers with meat
This hot second course will make anyone happy. The recipe for stuffed peppers with meat will tell you how to prepare a tasty and rich meat dish that will satisfy you and not leave any gourmet indifferent. You can take any meat that is in the refrigerator: pork, beef, you can also use lamb or turkey, chicken or duck and goose fillet.
Ingredients
- minced meat (any) – 500-650 g;
- tomato – 2 pcs.;
- onions – 2 pcs.;
- garlic – 5 cloves;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- cream and tomato juice 100 g each;
- herbs, spices;
- sweet red pepper – 1 kg.
Preparation
- Add finely chopped vegetables to the twisted meat, spread this mixture inside each pepper.
- Place in a saucepan (can be placed on a baking sheet in a sleeve, as in the photo), bake for 10 minutes.
- Make a dressing from cream, herbs, tomato juice, and spices.
- Pour the hot mixture into a saucepan and continue baking for another 20 minutes at 190 degrees.
Stuffed peppers with meat and rice
This option is lower in calories than the previous one, but rice grains are full of fiber, and the feeling of fullness will last for a long time after the lunch break. Stuffed peppers with rice are convenient to take in a bowl for work, a picnic or vacation. You can prepare and bring your delicious treat to a friend’s house, or carefully put it in your kids’ backpack as a lunch.
Ingredients
- rice groats – 220 g;
- medium peppers – 12 pcs.;
- chopped meat – 340 g;
- tomatoes, carrots, onions - 2 pcs.;
- cream or sour cream - a glass.
Preparation
- Boil the rice for about 12 minutes. Add half the chopped vegetables to the minced meat, add parsley or basil if desired.
- Fry the second half over high heat, add cream, seasonings and salt, and simmer lightly.
- After stuffing the pepper, place it in a mold with walls, pour creamy dressing over it, and bake for 35 minutes.
Peppers stuffed in the oven with cheese
This recipe may involve different types of ingredients. To make peppers stuffed in the oven with cheese, you can use mozzarella, feta cheese, and various hard types. It works well when pork is used as the meat component. Dairy products soften the fat content of meat, make peppers lighter and reduce the calorie content per serving of the product.
Ingredients
- peppers – 10 pcs.;
- rice – 140 g;
- minced pork – 200 g;
- onion – 1 piece
- feta cheese and Dutch cheese – 100 g each;
- tomato paste, sour cream – 90 g each;
- basil, dill - to taste.
Preparation
- Peel and cut the main vegetable in half, mix the minced meat with undercooked rice cereal, grated cheese and onion.
- Make a sauce from sour cream, pasta, herbs.
- Fill the halves with the prepared mixture, sprinkle with hard grated cheese.
- Pour the sauce into a cooking container, place the stuffed product and simmer in the oven for about half an hour.
How to cook frozen stuffed peppers
If the housewife is leaving, worried about the diet of her household, or simply has extra time for cooking, you can make homemade semi-finished products that can then be quickly prepared without much effort. You need to know that stuffed peppers can be frozen just as well as stuck-on dumplings and dumplings, so that you can treat yourself to a delicious lunch if you wish.
Ingredients
- pepper – 1 kg;
- round rice – 160 g;
- minced meat – 230 g;
- carrots, onions 1 pc.
Preparation
- Mix boiled rice with minced meat with chopped carrots and onions.
- Stuff the peeled peppers with the prepared mixture.
- Place in the freezer, remove if necessary, bake in the oven until done, adding your favorite sauce.
Pepper stuffed with chicken breast
Chicken breast has long established itself as a juicy, tasty, healthy, low-calorie product. Its peculiarity is that it goes perfectly with all types of vegetables, herbs, and cheeses. Peppers stuffed with chicken breast are interesting, tasty and satisfying. You can feed it to the youngest family members and pamper yourself, even if you limit your meat consumption and watch your figure.
Ingredients
- chicken fillet – 560 g;
- greens of different varieties - 1 bunch;
- bulbs – 2;
- carrots – 1-2;
- bell pepper fruits – 11 pcs.
Preparation
- Chop the fillet with a knife, finely chop the herbs and vegetables, mix together.
- Stuff the peeled peppers.
- Place in the oven for 25 minutes at 185 degrees.
Stuffed peppers with vegetables and rice
By preparing this recipe, the cook will give his food a whole vitamin cocktail, especially in the winter-spring time of widespread vitamin deficiency. If some of the vegetables are not suitable for the season and are expensive, then you can replace them with budget ready-made frozen mixtures, which are on the shelves of all supermarkets. Beginners can cook peppers stuffed with vegetables in the oven.
Ingredients
- pepper fruits – 11 pcs.;
- asparagus – 120 g;
- corn - 1 can;
- broccoli and basil – 50 g each;
- tomatoes and eggplants – 100 g each;
- onion – 1 head;
- rice – 95 g;
- sour cream – 110 g.
Preparation
- Fry chopped vegetables and herbs on the grill, adding seasonings, mix with undercooked salted rice and corn.
- Fill the peeled peppers with the prepared filling, cover with the “butts” like a lid,
- Place everything on a baking sheet, pour over sour cream, bake for half an hour at medium temperature.
Pepper halves stuffed with minced meat in the oven
Colored boats with aromatic meat filling look very aesthetically pleasing when served. Peppers stuffed in halves in the oven will give a banquet look to every set table. It is good because every guest sees the aromatic contents, which stimulates the appetite. The cook will be surprised how quickly this recipe will fall in love. All the guests will ask how to cook it.
Ingredients
- any type of minced meat – 620 g;
- greens – 1/2 bunch;
- peppers – 13 fruits (preferably colored);
- tomatoes – 200 g;
- carrots, onions - 1 pc.;
- cream – 1.5 tbsp. l.
Preparation
- Cut the peppers into boats (as in the photo), mix the meat with chopped vegetables, pour over cream for juiciness.
- Carefully place the mixture into halves and sprinkle with herbs.
- Bake for about 25 minutes.
With rice and mushrooms
A non-trivial recipe for a dish common at feasts. Ease of preparation does not interfere with originality in taste. Stuffed peppers with rice and mushrooms can be made with the addition of champignons, oyster mushrooms, and chanterelles to get the result as in the photo. When thinking about how to prepare a dish, you can choose interesting variations of spices and herbs: it all depends on your preference to add more or less seasonings.
Ingredients
- sweet pepper – 10 pcs.;
- mushrooms – 700 g;
- rice – 100 g;
- sour cream – 80 g;
- bulb;
- dill;
- collection of suneli hops, Provençal herbs, etc.
Preparation
- Fry the mushrooms, pour in sour cream, leave to simmer until the moisture evaporates, at the end add torn dill and spices.
- Prepare the pepper, cut out the butts, seeds, and rinse with water.
- Fill it with mushrooms and rice, place on a container, pour over the remaining sour cream, until the stuffed peppers are ready in the oven, simmer them for 15 minutes.
Stuffed peppers in the oven with gravy step by step recipe
And now I suggest you take a little break from the twists and please your family with a delicious dinner.
What can you cook during the vegetable season? Of course, bell peppers stuffed with meat and rice. This dish comes from my childhood. Mother and grandmother always prepared it, and on holidays it was a mandatory guest on the festive table. And when I was cooking, there was such a aroma in the kitchen, you could go crazy!
Now I delight my family with such a meal. I cook it in different versions, with different fillings. So today I want to offer you interesting recipes. And their highlight is that we will bake the peppers in the oven, and not stew them in a saucepan according to the classics. It turns out incredibly tasty, very filling, aromatic and colorful.
I can sing odes to this dish for a long time, but I won’t bore you and suggest getting down to business... Choose a recipe to your taste and cook with pleasure and a good mood, to the delight of your family and friends.
How to cook stuffed peppers with meat and rice in the oven?
Sweet peppers are simply made for stuffing! If you remove the stem and core, it is easy and simple to fill it with all kinds of fillings and bake it deliciously in the oven. In the first recipe, I suggest filling vegetable “pots” with pieces of fried pork and rice - it turns out just a bomb!
Ingredients:
- Pepper - 8-10 pcs.
- Tomato 1 pc.
- Onion 2 pcs.
- Carrot 1 pc.
- Meat 400-500 grams.
- Rice 70-100 grams
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper to taste
Cooking process:
1. First of all, I suggest doing vegetables. Wash the pepper in water, remove the stem and seeds. Peel the onions and carrots and rinse under running water. Cut the onion into small cubes, grate the carrots on a small grater. Cut the tomato into cubes. Wash the greens, dry them on a clean kitchen towel and chop finely.
2. Place a frying pan with high walls or a saucepan/cauldron on the stove, pour in vegetable oil. When the oil has warmed up a little, add the onions and carrots. Fry for 2 minutes, stirring from time to time.
3. Add pork cut into small squares to the carrots and onions. Fry for 3-4 minutes.
4. Now add the finely diced tomato to the pan. Mix.
Tomato can be replaced with 1/2 cup of tomato juice.
5. Now add rice to the meat and vegetables.
The rice must be washed well.
6. Add 100 ml of water and mix. Cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.
6. Add salt, pepper and herbs. Mix everything again and leave for 10 minutes under a closed lid so that our filling “reaches”.
7. For the pepper to be edible, tasty and aromatic, we need to salt it inside.
8. Now comes the climax - filling. We need to fill each fruit, compacting it tightly.
9. Place the stuffed fruits in the form in which we will bake. In my case it's a frying pan. Pour half the mold with regular filtered water and put it in the oven preheated to 200 C. As soon as the water boils, reduce the temperature to 200 C and bake for 40 minutes.
Voila, a great dish is ready!
Stuffed peppers baked whole with cheese
This is an incomparable dish, I cook it on holidays or on special occasions! The pepper is very tasty, and we will stuff it not only with minced meat, but also hide a quail egg inside. Unusual, tasty and very aromatic! And the guests will simply be in a pleasant shock, try cooking, you will like it...
Ingredients:
- Bell pepper - 10 pcs.
- Mixed minced meat - 400 -450 gr.
- Rice - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Corn (canned) - 250 gr.
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
- Quail eggs - 10 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 100 gr.
- Butter/margarine - 100 gr.
- Grated tomatoes - 0.5 l.
- Wheat bread (stale) - up to 200 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Greens (dill, parsley) - 1/2 bunch
- Green onions - 1
- Red pepper (for filling) - half
- Ground black pepper
Cooking technology:
1. Before cooking, you need to prepare vegetables and meat. We remove the stalk and seeds from bell peppers, doing everything carefully so that the fruits remain intact and undamaged. Boil the quail eggs until tender, then give them time to cool and remove the shells from these crumbs. Finely chop the onion. Cut half a red sweet pepper into small cubes. Strain the corn through a colander. Finely chop the greens, and cut the green onion into rings. Soak the hard bread in warm water.
2. Now you need to start preparing the filling. Add corn, herbs, onions, chopped red pepper to the minced meat, beat in a chicken egg, well-washed rice, I usually cook from round Krasnodar. Salt and pepper to taste. Squeeze out the soaked bread and add it to the filling. Mix well.
Add a small amount of water to the filling, then it will be juicy
3. Fill the peppers with minced meat up to half, compacting them well. We put in the quail egg and then continue to fill it to the very edges, so we hid the tiny egg. Place the filled blanks in a deep baking dish or cauldron/cauldron.
4. To fill, we need to grate the tomatoes down to the skin, add melted butter to the tomatoes, add salt to taste and stir.
5. Pour the tomato-cream mixture over our peppers so that it does not get inside. The filling level should be 2 cm below the peppers. Sprinkle each piece with hard cheese on top so that the minced meat is completely covered. Place in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 60 minutes. There is no need to cover with a lid.
6. Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs.
Place portions into a plate, top with sauce and sour cream!
Bon appetit!
A simple recipe for cooking bell peppers in tomato sauce (gravy)
I don’t even know a simpler recipe. A classic version of preparing this dish with minced meat in tomato sauce, baked in the oven. It’s easy and quick to prepare, but it turns out superbly tasty, satisfying and aromatic! Well, now that I’ve motivated you, let’s start cooking?
Required ingredients:
- Minced pork and beef - 1 kg
- rice - 100 gr
- Bell pepper - 10 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 3-4 cloves
- Tomato paste - 3 tbsp. lie
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Dill - bunch
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. lie
- Salt - to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
Preparation:
1. First of all, wash the rice very well. I already mentioned above that Krasnodar is best suited for this dish. Add the washed rice to the minced meat, add salt, pepper and mix well so that the rice and spices are evenly distributed in the minced meat.
2. While the minced meat is soaked in salt and ground pepper, I suggest working on the bell pepper. We cut off the cap along with the stalk and carefully remove the seeds and partitions so as not to damage the fruit. Rinse in running water.
3. Fill each fruit tightly with the filling using a spoon.
4. Place the pieces in boiling water and let them boil for no more than 5 minutes. All this is done to ensure that the rice does not remain hard when baking in the oven.
5. Then transfer to a baking sheet and pour in the broth in which the peppers were cooked.
6. Cut the onion into thin half rings and the carrots into small cubes. Sprinkle on top.
8. Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven at 200C and bake for 40-50 minutes until done.
Place in portions on a plate, add sour cream or mayonnaise and invite to the table.
Eat with pleasure!
Pepper halves (boats) with chicken, vegetables and rice in sour cream
I suggest preparing this dish in an unusual way. We will bake the stuffed fruits not whole, but in halves in the form of boats. Let's replace the usual minced meat with pieces of chicken and eggplants mmm It turns out incredibly tasty and appetizing stuffed peppers under a golden cheese crust!
Ingredients:
- Sweet pepper - 4 pcs.
- Steamed long grain rice - 1/2 cup
- Chicken fillet - 250 - 300 gr.
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Hard cheese - 50 gr.
- Tomato ketchup - 1 tbsp. lie
- Vegetable oil - 30 gr.
- Sour cream - 50 gr.
- Salt - 1 tsp.
- Parsley/dill - a little
Cooking process:
1. First we need to prepare the filling. To do this, rinse the rice very well until the water is clear and boil until half cooked.
I do this: pour cold water over the rice and put it on the stove. Bring to a boil at maximum temperature and turn off the heat. I don’t remove the pan from the stove, so the rice steams perfectly.
2. Peel the onion, rinse in water and cut into thin half rings. Heat the frying pan, pour in a small amount of vegetable oil and fry until transparent, the onion then becomes soft.
3. Cut off the skin of the eggplants and cut into medium-sized cubes. Place in the pan with the onions. Sprinkle with a little salt to remove the bitterness from the eggplant.
4. Cut the chicken into medium-sized pieces and add to the pan with the vegetables.
5. At the very end, peel the large carrots and grate them on a fine grater. Place in a frying pan with meat and vegetables.
6. When the vegetables have acquired a golden color, transfer them to the steamed rice. Add ketchup or tomato paste (sauce), salt and spices to taste, and a little herbs (dill + parsley).
7. Now we need to prepare the sweet peppers. Remove the stem and core, remove the seeds and cut into halves. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and lay out the bell pepper halves.
8. Fill the “boats” with meat and vegetable filling, top with mayonnaise or sour cream, or maybe you like natural yogurt without additives. Sprinkle with hard cheese, which must first be grated coarsely. Preheat the oven to 180C and place our stuffed peppers for 25 - 30 minutes.
9. Serve with vegetable salad or side dish.
Be sure to cook it, it’s very tasty!
Peppers stuffed with minced chicken and rice baked in the oven
A very tasty dish, filling and nutritious. Stuffed with rice and minced chicken, baked in tomato sauce, the peppers taste simply amazing!
Required ingredients:
- Sweet pepper – 1 kg
- Chicken fillet - 750 gr.
- Rice - 2 tbsp.
- Onions - 3 pcs.
- Carrots - 5 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - 1/2 tsp.
- Salt to taste
- Vegetable oil for frying - 3 tbsp. lie
For the gravy:
- Tomato juice – 1 liter
- Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. lie
- Sour cream / mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. lie
- Salt - 1 tsp.
- Sugar - 2 tbsp. lie
Cooking process:
1. Wash the rice thoroughly in warm water several times. Place in a saucepan, add boiling water and cook for 6 minutes from boiling until half cooked. Next, drain the rice in a colander and rinse under warm water. Leave until completely cool.
2. I prepare the minced meat myself - I separate the fillet from the bone and pass the meat through a meat grinder, and the bones can be used to cook broth for soup or borscht.
If you don’t have the desire or time to bother with meat, you can buy ready-made minced meat in the store.
3. Peel the carrots and onions. Finely chop the onion into cubes, grate the carrots on a grater with large holes. Place the chopped vegetables in a frying pan heated with vegetable oil. Fry until golden brown, stirring constantly.
4. Set aside 4 tablespoons of fried carrots and onions for the filling. Then add tomato juice, tomato paste, salt and sugar to the pan. Bring to a boil, reduce the temperature and let the gravy simmer for 3 minutes.
4. We remove the stalk of the sweet pepper, pressing it inward, and then remove it along with the core. Shake out the remaining seeds and rinse the fruits under running water.
5. In a deep bowl, combine minced chicken, rice boiled until half cooked and 4 tablespoons of onions and carrots fried until golden brown. Add salt and ground black pepper. Mix well and fill the peppers, pressing tightly with a spoon.
6. You can bake in a deep baking pan, a baking dish with high walls, or a duckling/goose pan, as is more familiar and convenient for you. We place our stuffed pieces in one layer in the dishes in which we will bake; there is no need to pre-grease them with oil. My pepper fit in two molds. Pour the tomato sauce on top, which has already been prepared in advance.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and set to bake for 40-50 minutes. 5 minutes before cooking, remove the pepper. Pour 3-4 tablespoons of sour cream on top, spreading evenly over the surface and return to the oven.
Place it on plates and treat your family and friends to a delicious dish!
Recipe for peppers in the oven under foil
Here's another delicious recipe. When baking, cover the peppers with foil, it turns out juicy, satisfying, appetizing! And the aroma... This dish will perfectly complement the festive table and guests will be delighted!
Ingredients:
- Bell pepper - 1 kg,
- Minced meat - 700 g,
- Boiled rice - 200 g,
- Garlic - 2 cloves,
- Onion - 1 large head,
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 1 kg,
- Salt to taste.
How to prepare this dish is described in detail by the author of this video, I suggest you watch it. Where you can see with your own eyes step by step and repeat the step-by-step cooking processes...
Try it, it's very tasty!
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Bell pepper is the oldest human food, because it is reliably known that its first varieties were grown more than six thousand years ago. The vegetable is able to grow in different climatic conditions, so it can be found in almost any part of the world. Due to its prevalence, accessibility and usefulness, tasty sweet peppers are highly valued in cooking. The vegetable is used to prepare various stews and sauces, fried, stewed and baked, and added to first courses. But stuffed peppers are especially popular among people. You can prepare this dish in different ways - simmer in a pan, steam, or bake stuffed peppers in the oven with minced meat. It can be served as a separate dish or with a side dish.
You can use vegetables of different colors for stuffing. Please note that all varieties taste slightly different. The sweetest pepper is red, and the unsweetened one is green. It is best to bake all types of vegetables at once. Then the dish will look very bright and elegant.
Ingredients
- Sweet bell pepper (thin-skinned) – 10-12 pcs.;
- Carrots – 2 pcs.;
- Onion – 1 pc.;
- Fresh tomatoes – 4 pcs.;
- Garlic – 2 cloves;
- Boiled rice – 1.5 tbsp;
- Chicken fillet – 300 g;
- Salt – 1 tsp;
- Sugar – 5 tsp;
- Mixture of ground peppers – 0.5 tsp;
- Dry mint - a pinch;
- Bay leaf – 1 pc.;
- Vegetable oil – 100 ml;
- Broth or water – 1/2 cup;
- Sour cream for serving - to taste;
- Green onions - for serving.
How to cook baked stuffed peppers in the oven with minced meat and rice
First you need to prepare the bell peppers. Use a thin-skinned vegetable to prepare this dish. Rinse the peppers, cut off the caps, and then remove the membranes with seeds. 
Boil about two liters of water in a large saucepan, add a handful of salt. Place the prepared peppers in water and blanch them for a few minutes. Then turn off the heat and cover the lid. Let the pepper sit in the water. 
Peel the onions and carrots. Grate the carrots and chop the onion into small cubes. 
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add onions and carrots. Fry them until soft and golden brown. You can also add other vegetables here, depending on the season, to make the filling for the peppers a richer and brighter taste. Today I added one finely chopped potato and half a zucchini. Salt and add spices to taste to the fried vegetables. 
To fill, take 4-5 medium tomatoes and make cuts along the top of the peel. Boil water in a ladle and lower the vegetables into it. Turn off the heat and soak the tomatoes in the water for 15 minutes. 
Meanwhile, grind the chicken fillet through a meat grinder to obtain minced meat. You can use a mixture of beef and pork instead of chicken. 
Pre-boil round rice until half cooked. Then combine it in a bowl with the ground chicken and most of the roasted vegetables. You can also add finely chopped parsley with dill and a clove of garlic to the pepper filling. 
Mix the filling. Add salt, a pinch of dry mint, and a mixture of ground peppers. 
Peel the scalded tomatoes and puree them in a blender. 
Prepare a filling for the peppers using tomato puree. To do this, pour it into a frying pan with the rest of the fried vegetables. Add another half glass of broth or water, add sugar and salt, squeeze out a clove of garlic and throw in a bay leaf. Boil the tomato mixture and simmer for five minutes. 
Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Fill the prepared peppers with minced meat and rice filling and place in a baking dish with sides. 
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Cover each stuffed pepper with a cut-off lid and distribute the filling into the mold. Don’t forget to remove the bay leaf from the filling before doing this. Place the pan with the peppers in the oven for 40 minutes.
Turn off the heat and leave the prepared stuffed peppers with minced meat in the oven for 20 minutes. This is needed for impregnation.
Before serving, sprinkle the dish with finely chopped green onions.
Place the peppers on a plate and pour the filling on top.
These are the delicious stuffed bell peppers we got in the oven. Serve the sour cream separately or pour it on top as well. 
Summer appetizer of the original shape “Hearts” is a very beautiful idea for serving a familiar dish. Add fried vegetables to the minced meat and cook stuffed peppers in halves with such a delicious filling in the oven. The piquant nuance in this recipe is the crust of melted hard cheese. Appetizers in this design can be served at buffets, picnics and gala dinners.
Ingredients
- pork – 400 g,
- salt – 1/3 tsp,
- bell pepper – 6 pcs.,
- cherry tomatoes - 5 pcs.,
- onions – 2 pcs.,
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.,
- garlic cloves – 1 pc.,
- dill - a small bunch;
- hard cheese – 100 g,
- chicken eggs – 1 pc.
How to cook "Hearts" halves of pepper stuffed with minced meat in the oven
Buy a small piece of pork tenderloin and a pepper with thick, meaty walls. You can replace a sprig of small cherry tomatoes with one regular fruit.
Cut the meat into cubes and grind with a blender at the highest speed. The minced meat should be tender, without “interspersed” veins and films. 
Salt the resulting meat mass; If you want a spicy dish, add ground black pepper to your taste. 
Cut each pepper in half, including the tail. But the cut should not be continuous; the third part of one side remains uncut (see how it is shown in the photo). This will create a shape that resembles a heart. Remove the seeds. Chop one pepper very finely; it is intended for filling. 
Chop the onions and tomatoes into cubes, add chopped pepper to them and sauté all the vegetables in vegetable oil. 
Place the pepper “hearts” in a baking dish (no need to grease it with oil). 
Combine the meat with fried vegetables, add a little chopped garlic and herbs, mix everything thoroughly until smooth. 
Stuff the peppers with the resulting filling so that the mound of it rises a little higher (approximately 1 cm). 
Cover the pan with foil and place in the oven for 30 minutes, preheated to 180 degrees.
Grate the cheese and mix with a raw egg. After the required time has passed, remove the pan from the oven and brush each pepper with the cheese mixture. Place the “hearts” in the oven for another 5-10 minutes until a golden crust appears (do not cover the pan with foil).
Sprinkle the finished “hearts” along the contour with finely chopped dill. You can decorate the dish with wavy lines of salted butter. To do this, take oil at room temperature and place it in a plastic bag. Cut off a small corner of the bag (cut depth - 2 mm). When pressing the bag, squeeze out a thin stream of oil and decorate the finished snack with it. 
Cooking tips:
You can make pepper halves stuffed with minced meat in the oven with any other filling:
- Add boiled rice until half cooked to the minced meat described above.
- The filling for vegetarians is rice and champignons fried with onions and carrots (they need to be finely chopped).
- Instead of pork, you can use chicken breast, cut into small cubes. But the filling will be more tender if the meat ingredient is ground in a blender or meat grinder.
- Another wonderful filling for those who for some reason do not eat meat is completely vegetable; for it you need to fry small cubes of zucchini or eggplant with onions, carrots and tomatoes.
