Stuffed peppers

Favorite, a mild flavored minced meat, stewed under his pillow creamy tomato sauce – stuffed peppers.

Ingredients:

  • Bulgarian pepper - 1 kg
  • Rice - 100 g
  • Beef - 200 g
  • Pork - 200 g
  • Carrots - 1 pc
  • Onions - 1 pc
  • Parsley - 2-3 sprigs
  • Basil - 2 sprigs
  • Thyme - 2 sprigs
  • Garlic - 1 pc
  • Tomatoes - 3 pieces
  • Sour cream - 100 ml
  • Butter - 25 g
  • Lemon - 1 pc

Preparation. Stuffed peppers

Clean the peppers from seeds, stalk and membranes, wash and pat dry. Boil water, add half a lemon and peppers scald.

Tip: To peppers are not cracked during stuffing, scalding them in boiling water for 2 minutes.

Filling. Rinse the rice until translucent water, boil until half, salt. Add the butter and let it cool.

Carrot and onion cut into cubes, fry in vegetable oil. Meat mince. Connect with minced vegetables, then add the rice. For flavor, add chopped fresh herbs and spices to taste.

Stuff peppers with no slides.

Vegetable cushion. Pepper cut into cubes, tomatoes – sliced, crush the garlic cloves with a knife.

At the bottom of the pan tolstodonnoy Put pepper, garlic and tomatoes. Add a sprig of basil and thyme. Put the stuffed peppers in the vegetable pillow, cover with cold water to 2/3 of the height of peppers. Simmer peppers 40-50 minutes on low heat. For 15 minutes until cooked add the tomato-cream sauce.

Tip: You can replace the water decoction of rice, meat or vegetable broth, milk.

Tomato-cream sauce. Fresh tomato peel. Make a cross-shaped incisions, dip in boiling water for 1 minute and pour over cold water. Perebeyte tomatoes immersion blender. Cream dissolve in cold water, add tomato weight, salt, sugar, pepper, garlic desired.