In order to serve a festive dish on the festive table, it is not at all necessary to have expensive products on hand or order the dish in a restaurant. Just prepare stuffed bell pepper boats and you will receive a lot of culinary compliments and admiration.
To make the dish look more colorful, choose brightly colored peppers: orange, red, green. You don’t need a lot of this vegetable, because each pepper is cut into two boats, and two boats are one serving!
Ingredients
- 2-3 bell peppers
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 300 g minced meat
- 3-4 pinches of salt
- 50 g hard cheese
- greens for decoration
- 20 ml sunflower oil
Preparation
1. Peel the carrots and, after washing them, cut them into cubes.
2. Do the same with onions.
3. Pour sunflower oil into a well-heated frying pan, add chopped carrots and onions, and then add minced meat. Minced chicken cooks the fastest. After that - pork and beef. Mix the contents of the pan together and sauté for about 10-15 minutes, stirring regularly, until everything is completely cooked through.
4. Meanwhile, cut the bell peppers in half flat, being careful to cut even the tail. Remove seeds from the halves and rinse in water.
5. Stuff the pepper boats with the prepared filling.
6. Place them in a greased pan, trying to fit them so they don't lean over. Grate the hard cheese on a fine grater and place it on top of the filling in the vegetables.
7. Bake the dish in the oven at 180C for about 15-20 minutes, making sure that the pepper halves do not become too soft or baked.
8. Serve the pepper boats hot with a warm and stretchy cheese crust.
Don't forget to add some greens for flavor - bon appetit!
Note to the hostess
1. The specificity of the recipe is that the peppers are not stewed in tomato-sour cream sauce, but baked. This means you should choose juicy and fairly fatty minced meat. Pure beef is least suitable. Good options are young lamb, veal plus pork, and ground poultry meat taken from different parts of the carcass. Ground chicken or turkey breast is too dry. If you do take beef or poultry loin, you should put mayonnaise under the layer of cheese: it will heat up and soak the meat, adding fat to it.
2. To ensure that people can carefully remove the tails from stuffed peppers during a meal, you need to add a curved fruit knife to your cutlery set.
3. Owners of a country grill can also prepare such boats. However, heat treatment conditions over an open fire differ significantly from those provided by an oven. Therefore, it is recommended to wrap each half of the pepper in foil - it will ensure proper temperature conditions and prevent the food from drying out.
4. For dishes in which vegetables and meat are combined in equal proportions, experts advise serving strong wines like Madeira or port. The preferred sauces are white creamy ones with herbs and hot spices.
Sometimes, having tried a new recipe, I am completely delighted and at that moment I involuntarily think: what a pity I didn’t know about it before. This is exactly what happened when I started cooking stuffed peppers in the oven. Stuffed peppers with minced meat are prepared completely differently than before. In its usual form, this dish is prepared in a sauce similar to cabbage rolls and, in principle, is not much different from them.
In the new version, peppers with a juicy meat filling are not stewed whole in broth, but baked in halves in the oven. This results in more servings, which also look beautiful and original. Another plus is that here the stuffed peppers with cheese are baked, becoming soft, but not boiling, as happens when stewing.
Stuffed peppers baked in halves in the oven
I won’t languish any longer, but will go straight to the recipe, and at the same time I’ll share the secret of the juicy meat filling.
how to cook peppers with minced meat and cheese
Ingredients:
- 2 large bell peppers,
- 200 g minced meat,
- 1 head of onion,
- 1 large tomato,
- sour cream,
- hard cheese,
- salt,
- greenery.
Cooking process:
Let's prepare the peppers: wash them thoroughly, cut them into halves and remove the seeds.
For the filling, peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
We also chop the tomato as finely as possible. It is the addition of this vegetable that will make the meat filling unusually juicy.
Place chopped onions in a bowl with well-salted minced meat.
Next we send the chopped tomato. Now you need to thoroughly mix all the ingredients and the filling will be ready.
Stuff each pepper half quite tightly with the meat filling.
Then grease all the prepared peppers with sour cream. Mayonnaise lovers can add it.
And, of course, we sprinkle our peppers thickly with hard cheese grated on a fine grater. Everything is ready, and it’s time to put the dish in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about 30-40 minutes. It is convenient to bake peppers in a glass form or simply on a baking sheet.
Decorate the baked stuffed peppers in halves with herbs and serve. To make it even more satisfying, prepare mashed potatoes or boil rice for them. But even without a side dish, this dish is very filling and tasty. Bon appetit!
Remove the skin from the tomatoes. To do this, make cross-shaped cuts on them, lower them into boiling water for 2-3 minutes, then place them in cold water and remove the skin. Cut the peeled tomatoes into cubes.
In a frying pan, fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil, add salt and season with spices. Then add the chopped tomatoes and simmer together for about 5 minutes and remove from heat.
Prepare minced meat from meat and one onion. I used beef and chicken in equal proportions.
Add boiled rice, salt and ground black pepper to the minced meat.
Pour in the milk, mix the minced meat thoroughly until it is smooth and soft.
Place all the vegetable sauce on top and place the pan with the stuffed pepper halves in the oven. Bake at 180 degrees for 1 hour or a little more if the peppers are very large. Check readiness with a sharp knife - it should easily pierce the peppers.
Delicious and aromatic stuffed pepper halves are ready.
Bon appetit, make your loved ones happy!
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A wonderful vegetable is pepper; it retains its original color even when cooked, remains juicy and appetizing. Peppers are stuffed with minced meat, rice, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, baked and stewed in sour cream and tomato under a cheese crust. Usually peppers are stuffed whole; we will prepare stuffed pepper halves. It's unusual, but no less tasty. And for such a hot and satisfying appetizer, we recommend preparing a light and healthy one.
Pepper halves stuffed with cheese
You will need:
- 7-8 pcs. pepper
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 tomato
- 100 gr. cheese
- 0.5 tbsp. rice
- salt, black pepper, herbs
How to cook pepper halves with rice and cheese
1. Boil the rice in slightly salted water until tender. Peel the onion, carrots, finely chop the onion, grate the carrots.
2.
Fry the vegetables until golden brown. 
3. Combine the rice with the prepared minced meat, vegetables, add salt to taste, a little black pepper and mix well.
4. Rinse the pepper well, cut it, remove the entire core and place the prepared filling in each half.
5. Wash the tomatoes, cut into slices, cut hard cheese like tomatoes.
6. Prepare stuffed pepper halves for baking. We lay out each one, put a piece of tomato and cheese on top.
Bake the halved stuffed peppers in the oven for about half an hour over medium heat. Serve with fresh herbs and sour cream. You can cook peppers stuffed in halves in the oven with absolutely any filling, don’t be afraid to experiment. Add boiled mushrooms, potatoes or other vegetables.
Pepper halves stuffed with vegetables and paprika
Peppers stuffed in halves in the oven with vegetables and paprika.
You will need:
How to cook peppers with paprika and vegetables
1. In order for the pepper halves stuffed with minced meat in the oven to be especially soft and juicy, they must first be boiled for about half an hour in salted water.
2. We take the pepper, cut off the caps from it, cut it in half, remove the entire core and boil it.
3. It is better to prepare minced meat at home; both pork and beef and minced chicken are equally suitable here.
4. For pork and beef, take pork and beef in half and grind it in a meat grinder, adding a little onion, salt and pepper to taste.
5.
Boil the rice until tender, mix it with the minced meat. 
6. Peel the carrots, grate and lightly fry with finely chopped herbs, add the vegetables to the minced meat and rice, then add ground paprika.
7. Stuff the pepper halves with the prepared filling. Preheat the oven, grease the baking dish with any fat.
8.
Let's move on to preparing the sauce. Combine sour cream with tomato paste, add spices and the sauce is ready.
Pour the pepper halves stuffed with minced meat into the sauce and place in the oven to bake. The dish will be ready in about half an hour.
Serve pepper halves stuffed with minced meat, baked in the oven with fresh herbs. Minced meat can be replaced with chicken or finely chopped chicken. A wonderful dietary dish is pepper halves stuffed with chicken breast. Take a chicken breast, cut off all the flesh, boil it and cut it into small cubes. Then we also combine it with cooked vegetables and rice, see above, and the filling for the stuffed pepper is ready.
Enjoy your meal!
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Probably everyone has tried stuffed peppers in slices in the oven at least once in their entire life. This dish is easy and simple to prepare. In addition, you can use not only minced meat as a filling, but also fish. There is also a vegetarian option, when the pepper is stuffed with vegetables and fruits. How about halves in the oven?
The right pepper
Before you start cooking, you should purchase the necessary products in advance. First of all, this concerns pepper. What should it be like? The most important thing is the shape of the vegetable.
Bell peppers are ideal. It is meatier, with firm flesh and excellent shape. These vegetables are easy to stuff. When choosing pepper, you should pay attention to its condition. Vegetables must be free from spoiled areas and flaws.
Do not use hot peppers for cooking. Vegetables with an elongated and slightly flattened shape are also not suitable for stuffing.
What to make the filling from
To prepare stuffed pepper halves, you need to decide on the filling. Its options are varied. For filling you can use:
- Minced fish or meat.
- Boiled rice.
- Fruits.
- Vegetables.
- Cheese and spicy spices, dried herbs.
The most important thing is that during the cooking process the filling is saturated with the aromas of seasonings and juice. To do this, you need to simmer the stuffed peppers well. The halves cook much faster in the oven.
Classic recipe
So how are stuffed peppers made? You can cook halves in the oven according to the classic recipe. For preparation you need:
- Bulgarian pepper.
- Boiled rice.
- Onions and carrots.
- Spices and salt.
- Any sauce.
- Minced meat.
Cooking steps
Onions and carrots must be peeled and chopped. Pour a little vegetable oil into the frying pan, and then add the prepared vegetables. In a deep container, combine minced meat and boiled rice. When the onions and carrots are fried, you need to remove the pan from the heat and let the vegetables cool slightly.
Now you need to clean the future stuffed peppers. The halves must be cooked without seeds or entrails in the oven. Vegetables should be thoroughly washed and cleared of contents. In this case, each peppercorn should be cut into several parts.
You need to add spices, salt, fried onions and carrots to the filling. All components should be mixed thoroughly. After this, you need to stuff the blanks. They should be placed in a deep baking container, and then poured with a special sauce or regular broth. Now the pepper can be put in the oven. After an hour, the dish will be ready.
Chicken recipe
How else can you cook peppers in halves (stuffed)? The oven recipe allows you to use almost any filling. To prepare peppers with chicken you will need:
- Medium size bell pepper - 6 pieces.
- Carrots - 3-4 pieces.
- Celery root - 50 grams.
- Leeks - 2 pieces.
- Tomatoes, preferably cherry tomatoes - 7 pieces.
- Chicken fillet - 220 grams.
- Olive oil - 32 grams.
- Salt, spices and fresh herbs.
Cooking stuffed peppers
Oven halves prepared according to this recipe turn out juicy and aromatic. First you need to prepare the filling. The carrots should be peeled and cut into cubes along with the celery. After this, the vegetables should be placed in a frying pan with heated olive oil and lightly fried. Leeks and cherry tomatoes should be finely chopped and then added to carrots and celery. You need to add spices to the resulting mass. The filling must be simmered until half cooked.
Final stage
The bell pepper needs to be peeled and cut into two parts. It must be blanched for some time in lightly salted water. Chicken fillet should be cut and fried until fully cooked. Then the bird should be added to the remaining ingredients of the filling and simmered for several minutes.
The baking sheet should be covered with parchment paper and greased with vegetable oil. You need to place the pepper halves on it, and then fill them with the finished filling. The dish should be baked at a temperature of 180 °C. After an hour it will be ready.
Now you know, Halves in the oven, made according to the recipes described above, will appeal to both adults and children.
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