Stuffed peppers with cheese - a dish that does not require gravy.
It is cooked in the oven, it turns out fragrant, toasted with a ruddy crust.
However, he does not need the close attention of the hostess, which pleases even more.
Stuffed peppers in the oven with cheese - general principles of cooking
For baking stuffed peppers, you can use pods of different colors. You need to know that green vegetables can taste bitter after cooking and not everyone likes it. Pods are filled with minced meat completely, as for a classic dish or cut in half, making boats. In either case, seeds are removed with a box. In order for vegetables to be prepared equally in time, they must be the same size.
Cheese can be used in mince or sprinkle filled pods (halves) on top, it all depends on the recipe. For sprinkling, it is better to use hard varieties, which melt and roast to a crust. You can add any cheese to the mince.
What else is used for the filling:
• meat, poultry;
• vegetables;
• cereals;
• different sauces;
• mushrooms.
After filling the pods are shifted into the form. It is advisable to choose the dishes in which the peppers will stand or lie tight. This will prevent unwanted tilting during the cooking process and leakage of the filling. In the oven, peppers bake for 20 to 50 minutes, depending on the composition of minced meat.
Stuffed pepper in the oven with cheese and meat
Meat variant stuffed in the oven pepper with cheese in the form of boats. For this dish, it is desirable to use two different types of meat, so get more tasty.
Ingredients
• 5 peppers;
• 500 grams of meat;
• carrot;
• 2 bulbs;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• 50 ml sour cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Cut the peeled onion heads, put into the pan with oil, passe a couple of minutes.
2. Peel the carrot, rub. Transfer to the bow. Fry the vegetables for another two minutes. Cool it down.
3. Shift roasted carrots and onions with minced meat. Add garlic, spices, salt. 4. Pepper, rinse, cut along. Remove the seeds from the resulting boats, rinse.
5. Fill the halves with minced meat and vegetables.
6. Grate the large cheese, add sour cream to it. If the stuffing is low-fat, it is better to use mayonnaise. Stir.
7. Spread the cheese mixture between all the boats, level the layer.
8. Transfer peppers to baking tray.
9. Bake in the oven until cooked at 180 degrees. It will take about 35-40 minutes.
Stuffed peppers in the oven with cheese, meat and rice
A variant of the common stuffing for stuffed pepper. Rice is added not only for taste, but also for the economy of the dish. In the oven, the peppers are cooked a little differently.
Ingredients
• 0.5 cups of dry rice;
• 400 g minced meat;
• 2 onions;
• 150 g sour cream;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• spices, garlic;
• 1 tomato.
Cooking
1. Boil rice almost until tender. It is important not to boil the cereal, keep the shape of grains. Drain the decoction.
2. Chop the onions, remember and add to the rice.
3. Put the mince to them, grate one tomato. You can add pasta, about one spoon. Or put in the filling of any ketchup, you can even sharp.
4. Stir, add spices (salt, pepper, herbs).
5. Cut the pods in half, as they did in the last recipe. Free the boats from the seeds. You can immediately try them in the mold, pick up the size so as not to shuffle along with the filling.
6. Stuff the halves of the pods with stuffing, but not to the very top. Rice will increase, you need to leave room for cheese.
7. Grate the cheese coarsely, add to it garlic with sour cream, no need to salt. Stir.
8. Cover the filling with cheese mass, fold everything so that nothing remains.
9. Bake the peppers for 40 minutes, serve until the dish is hot.
Stuffed pepper in the oven with cheese and egg
A variant of a very quick and simple dish that can be prepared for breakfast or dinner. Immediately turn on the oven for 200, as the stuffing of pepper will take a few minutes.
Ingredients
• 3 peppers;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• 50 g sour cream; • 4 eggs;
• spices, garlic;
• oil for the form.
Cooking
1. Cut the pods into boats, remove the cores.
2. Break eggs into a bowl, add salt and sour cream, beat with a fork.
3. Grate the cheese and garlic, transfer to the egg mixture.
4. Add any spices, herbs and stir.
5. Spread the halves of the peppers into molds.
6. Divide between them the egg mixture with cheese.
7. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Cool slightly before serving, put the greens on the boats.
Stuffed peppers in the oven with cheese and mushrooms
For this pepper mushrooms are best. They do not require pre-boiling and therefore can be put raw. Choose small pods that will quickly cook.
Ingredients
• 10 small pepper pods;
• 200 g of champignons;
• 120 grams of cheese;
• 1 cup of boiled rice;
• 2 onions;
• 40 g of oil;
• 10 tsp. sour cream;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the peeled onions, fry in oil.
2. Mushrooms, too, need to cut, put to hot onions and warm together a minute. Make the maximum fire. Cool it down.
3. Mix rice and fried mushrooms, add greens and spices to your taste. Stir the filling.
4. At the peppers, cut off the tops to make large holes.
5. Fill the pods with cooked mushroom and rice stuffing. But not to the very top. Leave about half a centimeter.
6. Grate the cheese, it is desirable to make large chips.
7. Spread on peppercorns, top with a teaspoon of sour cream. You can slightly salt it.
8. Place the pods in tight dishes so that they do not fall.
9. Bake 20 minutes at 200 degrees. If necessary, time can always be extended.
Stuffed peppers in the oven with cheese and vegetables
For such pepper stuffed in the oven with cheese, you need summer vegetables. If something is not there, then you can always find a substitute, for example, use cabbage instead of eggplants.
Ingredients
• 10 peppers;
• 2 eggplants;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 onions;
• 4 tomatoes;
• 150 g sour cream;
• 0.5 cup rice; • spices;
• 150 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Boil rice almost until tender, drain and leave to cool.
2. While the rice is cooking, fry the onion and carrot in a pan. At the very end, add the diced eggplant. After a minute, turn off.
3. Mix rice and vegetables, season with spices, garlic.
4. Cut off the pods of the crown, clean the inside. Bottom in each pod make a toothpick a few punctures.
5. Fill the resulting molds with minced meat, leave free space on top, about a centimeter. Place the pods in a convenient baking dish.
6. Grate the tomatoes, discard the skins. You can simply grind blender.
7. Add sour cream to the tomatoes, salt and pepper.
8. Pour into each pepper a spoonful of the resulting sauce, pour the rest into the form.
9. Grate the cheese, spread on the peppers.
10. Bake the dish for half an hour at a temperature of 180, you do not need to set it higher.
Stuffed peppers in the oven with cheese, chicken and nuts
The recipe for amazing pepper stuffed in the oven with cheese. Chicken fillet from the breast is used for the filling, but you can take a similar amount of trimmed pulp from the thigh of a bird.
Ingredients
• 3 fillets;
• 6 pods of pepper;
• onion;
• 150-180 g of cheese;
• carrot;
• butter;
• 50 g sour cream;
• garlic clove;
• 20 ml of oil;
• 2 tablespoons of nuts.
Cooking
1. Grate the carrot, chop the onion. Fry it all on two spoons of butter. Brown vegetables do not need, just slightly let it go.
2. Cut the diced chicken fillet into small cubes. Make it easier if the product is slightly frost-bitten.
3. Chop the nuts in small pieces, shift to chicken fillet.
4. Add roasted vegetables, salt, season with any spices, sour cream and garlic.
5. Fill the halves of the peppers with chicken nuts.
6. Sprinkle with grated cheese. You can simply cut a piece of the number of halves and expand.
7. Bake 35 minutes, serve to the table with greens.
Stuffed pepper in the oven with cheese, meat and buckwheat
For some reason, it is customary to add boiled rice to the stuffing for peppers. But with buckwheat turns out not less tasty. A glass of boiled cereal is used. Ingredients
• 6-8 peppers;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 cup of buckwheat;
• 200 g minced beef, chicken;
• 1 onion;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• 50 ml sour cream;
• oil, garlic.
Cooking
1. Peel the vegetables, chop, fry the carrots and onions, adding a little oil. Leave to cool.
2. Mix raw minced meat with boiled buckwheat, add spices, roasted vegetables, stir.
3. Rub the cheese, add half to the mince, the rest of the product will be needed for sprinkling.
4. Fill the pods with minced meat. According to this recipe, you can cook the boats from the halves or fill the whole peppers. Do as you like more.
5. Sprinkle pepper with grated cheese.
6. Top it with sour cream, you do not need to add much.
7. Bake the boats for 25 minutes at 180, if the pods are whole, then leave up to 35 minutes.
Stuffed pepper in the oven with cheese - tips and tricks
• Stuffed pepper - this is exactly the dish that can be prepared for future use. Fill the pods, put them in bags and put them in the freezer. At the right time, it will only be to put them in shape, cover them with cheese and bake them in the oven. Or pour the sauce and stew under the lid.
• If the filling is cooked with beef or chicken breast, vegetables will help to make the stuffing juiciness. Well ennobles lean meat fat sour cream, mayonnaise.
• If the cereal for undercooking is undercooked, be sure to add additional liquid to the pods, for example, tomato juice, sour cream, broth. Otherwise, the filling will be dry, and the dish itself is tasteless.
