Recipe for making lean stuffed peppers (vegan recipe) with rice and buckwheat cereals and vegetables. Additional options for cooking minced meat and sauce. More video recipes.
Vegans, vegetarians and fasting people successfully stuff any vegetables with rice and then bake them in the oven (or stew) in a large amount of tomato sauce. The most popular vegetable in stuffing is sweet pepper (preferably with a thin skin). Rice, finely chopped vegetables, mushrooms or legumes (chickpeas, lentils, peas, beans), soy meat (minced meat / goulash), sweet corn and so on are added to the filling (minced meat). For stuffing, you can also use various cereals and their combination: bulgur, rice, couscous, buckwheat, various processing of barley, etc. There are a lot of cooking options, as you can see.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 131.8 kcal.
- Servings - 8-9 pcs.
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Rice - 80-100 g
- Buckwheat - 80-100 g
- Sweet pepper - 8-9 pcs.
- Tomatoes (medium) - 2-3 pcs.
- Carrots (large) - 1 pc.
- Onion (large) - 1 pc.
- Tomato paste - 2-3 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil and thickener like flour / starch (optional if you plan to cook the sauce separately)
- Water
- Salt and allspice (to taste)
- Spices (optional, various mixes, including masala)
Cooking lean stuffed peppers with rice and buckwheat:
- We wash and "gut" sweet peppers, leave the cuts of the tails (the edible part) for the sauce or minced meat.
- Boil rice together with buckwheat until half cooked in a small amount of water: take 2 to 1 - water / cereals.
- Cut a third of carrots and onions, cut peppercorns into small cubes, mix them with rice and buckwheat, add salt, pepper, spices.
- Cut the remaining vegetables into rings / half rings or chop / three. It is advisable to peel the tomatoes (make a cross cut on top and lower them in boiled water for 30-50 seconds).
- Cooking the sauce. There are 2 options: raw and stewed. For the raw version, it is enough to dissolve pasta, salt, spices in water, pour stuffed peppers and chopped raw vegetables with the mixture. For the stewed version, vegetables are fried in a pan in vegetable oil, paste, water and a thickener are added. Everything is stewed for about 10 minutes.
- Fill vegetables (stuff with a mixture of buckwheat, rice and vegetables).
- At the very bottom of a very deep saucepan, put the remnants of minced meat (if any), peppers mixed with chopped vegetables (if the sauce is "raw"), fill everything with sauce (the peppers are immersed in it by 2/3). It is possible to bake peppers in the oven. Then they need to be placed in a mold (preferably with a lid).
- Simmer the peppers over low heat, covered for 20-25 minutes (after the sauce has boiled).
- Serve lean stuffed peppers with rice, buckwheat and vegetables with lean mayonnaise sauce and fresh herbs.
The choice of veggie mince for lean stuffed peppers is unlimited. Buckwheat in the filling gives them a "meaty" look.
Bon Appetit!
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To do this, you will need recipes:
- Minced meat - 300 g
- Mushrooms - 200 g
- Wheat couscous - 200 g
- Sweet peppers - 8 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 3-4 pcs. (or 1 tablespoon tomato paste)
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Hot peppers and garlic to taste
- Salt, ground black pepper and bay leaf
