Juicy minced meat in bell peppers and baked cheese crust are a great combination for a family meal. Learn the recipe for this dish and pamper your family with delicious lunches and dinners.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Stuffed peppers are a common dish in many cuisines of the world. And some peoples, like Bulgarians, Moldovans, Azerbaijanis and Romanians, generally consider it their national. The classic way of cooking it is filling with meat and rice, with which a keg of pepper is filled. This recipe is very well known to every modern housewife, because it is quite simple and easy to prepare, while it has an excellent taste. But today we will focus on a completely different dish. I suggest stuffing the peppers with juicy meat and baking them under a cheese crust.
This method of cooking looks much more festive and appetizing outwardly. Therefore, this dish can be safely served not only for everyday, but also for a festive table. Serving this dish for a festive event, you will surprise your guests with its simplicity and at the same time grace. The meat in pepper turns out to be the most tender, and in the company with vegetables it is soaked in their juice. Well, the culmination of the taste is the crispy cheese crust that covers the peppers. This is another significant difference in oven cooking. It is also worth noting that the taste of peppers is very different from boiled ones. This is no longer just a shell, which is often not even eaten if the dish is ineptly prepared. Baked peppers are a zest that gives a unique flavor.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 154 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Sweet bell pepper - 3 pcs.
- Chicken fillet - 2 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Hard cheese - 100 g
- Basil - a few twigs
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Cooking pepper stuffed with meat under a cheese crust:
1. Wash the fillets and pat dry with a paper towel. Wash the tomatoes and cut into 4 pieces. Peel and chop the onion and garlic for a meat grinder.
2. Pass the chicken, tomatoes, onion and garlic through a meat grinder. Add salt, ground pepper, basil and any spices to the products.
3. Stir the food well until smooth.
4. Wash the pepper, dry it and cut it in half lengthwise with a sharp knife. Do not cut off the tail, otherwise the pepper will disintegrate when baked. Remove the seeds inside and cut off the partitions.
5. Fill the cavities of the peppers with minced meat and place on a baking tray.
6. Cut the cheese into slices and place them on top of the filling. It can be grated, but it will stick better this way.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the peppers for 30-40 minutes. Serve the finished dish hot.
See also a video recipe on how to make stuffed pepper boats.
