If you think you know everything about stuffed pepper, you are deeply mistaken, because often the created dish does not work out properly: it bursts when cooked, loses its shape and does not look very attractive when served. To prevent this from happening to you, prepare the stuffed halves of the bell peppers, while choosing vegetables of bright color.
Such a dish is prepared very quickly, in contrast to a fully stuffed pepper, and it looks much more appetizing and more colorful in appearance. Various meat products can be used for the filling, and not just minced meat, for example: offal, pieces of meat, etc.
For 2 servings of stuffed pepper halves, you will need:
- 2 large bright bell peppers;
- 150 g minced chicken;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil;
- salt and black pepper to taste;
- 50 g of hard cheese.
To start cooking the dish itself, first add salt and pepper to the mincemeat if you purchased it ready. If you have chicken fillet or other type of meat, then first pass it through a meat grinder, and then add all the spices. Cut the carrots and onions into large cubes, after they have been cleaned and rinsed.
Heat the vegetable or sunflower oil in a pan or skillet and dip the vegetable cut into it along with the pieces of minced meat. Mix everything well and fry until ready for about 15-20 minutes, until the minced meat is completely browned. The main thing is not to overcook the filling so that it remains juicy. If this happens, add a little boiling water to the container so that the stuffing is soaked in liquid. Optionally, you can add a little tomato paste or the pulp of fresh tomatoes, pre-peeled, but then you will need to evaporate a little tomato juice so that the filling does not turn out to be too liquid.
Wash the bell peppers outside and cut them in half together with the tails to make the boats. Carefully cut the seeds out of them, so as not to damage the base and rinse again.
Fill the halves of the peppers with roasted meat and place in a form lightly oiled with vegetable oil.
Grate grated hard cheese and place on top of the filling. It is best to rub on a fine grater, as the large pieces of cheese does not melt well.
Place the form with the blanks in the oven for 20 minutes, waiting for the cheese to melt. It’s not worth keeping the dish in the oven for a long time, since you put the stuffing already ready and the peppers can lose their shape and go limp.
Put the hot pepper halves on a serving plate and serve, garnish with fresh herbs. They are tasty in a hot state, when the cheese still lasts when bitten. Good appetite!
As you see, it is not necessary to stand languidly over a cauldron and worry about how rice is cooked - you can simply stuff the halves of peppers and spend on everything for 25 minutes! But about how much the cost of 2 servings come out, we now find out:
- 2 large bright bell peppers - 15 rubles;
- 150 g of minced chicken meat - 25 rubles;
- 1 onion - 3 rubles .;
- 1 carrot - 3 rub .;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil - 5 rubles;
- 50 g of hard cheese - 30 rubles.
Total: 2 portions of 2 halves will cost 80 rubles, and 1 portion - 40 rubles, but at the same time your dish will look as if you ordered it at an expensive restaurant - luxurious and solemn, so take this a recipe for service when you wait for famous guests or want to arrange a festive romantic dinner! And we will pamper you more than once with tasty and inexpensive novelties!
