There are plenty of recipe options for stuffing sweet peppers. They can be stuffed with anything: mushrooms and vegetables, cottage cheese and cheese. But peppers stuffed with rice and meat, including minced chicken, which we will cook in the oven today, remain traditional and beloved. I don’t need to teach you how to choose minced poultry (or fillet from which it can be prepared) and rice, but when choosing sweet peppers, pay attention that they are not soft or cracked.
If you don’t like thick skin, it’s better to buy elongated varieties with thinner skin for our vegetable and poultry dishes. Red peppers have a brighter and more interesting taste. Or does it just seem that way? Well, let's follow this recipe for stuffing peppers with rice and minced chicken and check if this is really so. And tomorrow you can start again with a dish with meat and vegetables, in the form of “boats”. Will that suit you?
For filling
- minced chicken (fillet) - 500-600 grams,
- rice - 200 grams,
- one onion,
- ground peppers,
- salt - to taste,
- one egg,
- water - a couple of glasses (400 grams).
For the sauce
- allspice - 8-10 peas,
- bay leaf - from five pcs.,
- onion - one piece,
- tomato paste - 160 grams, more is possible,
- vegetable oil for frying.
How to cook peppers stuffed with chicken and rice, with photo
We rinse thoroughly and set the rice to cook in a saucepan, filling it with water and closing the container with a lid. While it's cooking, let's take care of the peppers. We cut off their tails. Using a sharp knife, cut out the stalks so carefully that they can then tightly close the resulting holes.
Select seeds from peppers.
After rinsing the vegetables with water, place them in a pan of boiling water.
Blanch for no more than five minutes. Then we place it on a flat dish with the holes facing down so that the water drains well.
If you started cooking with fillet, then for minced meat we grind the chicken fillet with onions through a meat grinder
Place the cooked rice in a colander so that all the water drains from it and combine it with the minced chicken. Add spices (salt, ground peppers) to taste along with the egg and mix.
We fill the insides of each sweet pepper with the resulting mixture. By the way, it’s not a fact that all the minced meat will go away. It is difficult to calculate its quantity accurately. If there is any left, form small meatballs and place them in the sauce along with the peppers.
For the sauce, first fry the onion.
When it browns a little, combine it with tomato paste and the remaining ingredients for the sauce.
When a homogeneous mass is formed, dilute it a little with some water, or even better, low-fat sour cream. But this is up to you. You can use these ingredients, or you can get creative and experiment with something else.
Pour some of the sauce into the bottom of an oven-safe dish in which the peppers will be stewed for half an hour.
We lay them tightly - “butts” to each other. Pour over the remaining sauce. 180 degrees is enough to finish cooking the dish in the oven. Time will fly by. Roasting for about 30 minutes in the oven will be enough for those who like their peppers to remain a bit firm. And some people prefer a soft version. Then I recommend increasing the time to 40-50 minutes.
The pepper stuffed with rice and minced chicken is ready, waiting for us for dessert and, well, isn’t it time to go to the table?
Stuffed peppers- The dish is tasty and healthy. Sweet peppers are boiled for 20 minutes, so they retain their vitamins. Chicken meat makes this recipe dietary because... it is low-fat and cooks quickly.
Stewed vegetables not only enrich the taste of the dish, but also make the pepper filling juicy, tender and aromatic.
Ingredients:
sweet pepper – 1.5 kg
onion – 1 pc.
carrots – 1 pc.
tomatoes – 2 pcs.
vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. spoon
chicken meat (preferably fillet) – 600 g
rice – 1 cup
parsley – ½ bunch
salt - to taste
Pepper stuffed with minced chicken, recipe
Peel the onion and finely chop.
Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater.
Wash the tomatoes and cut into small cubes.
Heat the vegetable oil, sauté the onion until transparent, add the carrots and simmer, stirring, over low heat for 3 minutes, add the tomatoes and simmer for another 5 minutes under the lid so that the juice does not evaporate.
Remove chicken meat from bones and mince or chop very finely.
Rinse the rice, cool the stewed vegetables a little so that the minced meat does not scald.
Mix rice, minced meat and stewed vegetables. Season with salt and add finely chopped parsley. Stir until smooth.
Cut off the tops of the peppers, carefully remove the seeds and membranes. Wash the peppers thoroughly under running water and let the water drain.
Fill the peppers with minced meat and place them standing in a cauldron or pan with a thick bottom.
In order to prepare stuffed peppers, we need the following ingredients.
1. Chicken breast of one chicken.
2. Medium-sized pepper, 19 pcs.3. One.
4. One large onion.
5. Tomato paste.
6. Sour cream four tablespoons.
7. Milk one hundred milliliters.
8. Four tomatoes, medium size.
9. Salt to taste.
10. Sugar one tablespoon.
11. Water 1.5 liters.
12. One glass of rice.
Process for preparing peppers stuffed with minced chicken:
There are several ways to stuff bell peppers and sweet peppers. The site, represented by me Lyudmila, offers you an old recipe from my grandmother. My grandmother made this recipe back in the eighties, and to this day, I cook it in my family.
| First of all, we will make minced chicken breast. First, cut the onion into cubes. |  |
| Then cut into small cubes of chicken breast. |  |
| Let the rice cook until half cooked. After this, fry half a head of onion and half a carrot. Fry it all in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then cool this mixture. After that, we combine chopped chicken breast, boiled rice until half cooked, add fried carrots and onions, and add one egg. Mix everything until smooth. |  |
| Fry the remaining onions and carrots until golden brown. When the onions and carrots are fried, add one tablespoon of tomato paste to the frying pan, and immediately add a tablespoon of granulated sugar, mix and fry everything with the tomato paste. |  |
| Now let's make the gravy. To do this, in a smaller saucepan, mix our fried vegetables, sour cream, and a glass of milk. Add salt to taste, and also add 1.5 liters of water. |  |
| We clean the pepper from stalks and seeds. And stuff it with minced meat. Place the peppers in the pan. |  |
| And fill everything with pre-prepared gravy. Place on the fire, bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer for about an hour. |  |
| After an hour has passed, cut the tomatoes into arbitrary shapes, and also chop one clove of garlic. Add everything to the pan and simmer for another 30 minutes. Now the pepper is ready. It can be served with sour cream or mayonnaise. For this dish, it would be appropriate to prepare a salad of fresh vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs. Bon appetit. |  |
Dishes made from stuffed vegetables can be found in almost every national cuisine. True, they are made differently in each country. It all depends on local traditions and taste preferences. As you know, C is the most popular and it is not always prepared with rice. Nevertheless, this recipe is very interesting and deserves to be discussed separately.
The perfect combination
Many housewives, in order to pamper their household, prefer to cook with minced chicken and rice, it turns out very tender, juicy and aromatic. For those who will be doing this for the first time, we can advise you to use the following recipe: for 12 pieces of sweet pepper you will need a glass of rice, 350 grams of chicken fillet, salt, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 onions, 1 carrot, ground pepper, 0.5 liters of tomato juice and a little vegetable oil.
The whole process can be divided into several stages:
- First the filling is prepared. To do this, the first thing you need to do is boil the rice. This is done very simply. The washed cereal should be poured into a pan, pour a glass of water over it and cook until the liquid has completely evaporated.
- Grind the fillet in a blender. If you don’t have one, you can use a meat grinder.
- Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Fry both products in vegetable oil until a pleasant orange hue.
- Place all prepared ingredients into one container, add pepper, salt, spices and mix well.
- Remove seeds from the peppers by cutting off the top of each one.
- Fill the vegetables with the prepared filling, then place them in a saucepan and pour in tomato juice. The workpieces must stand vertically.
- Add a little sugar and salt to the filling, then cover with a lid and simmer for 35 minutes at a low boil.
- At the very end, add chopped garlic for spiciness.
After this, you can turn off the heat and let the dish brew a little. It turns out very tasty stuffed peppers. The pulp of a juicy vegetable goes just perfectly with minced chicken and rice. And tomato sauce is a good addition for them.
Celebration of taste
Vegetable lovers can change the recipe slightly to make stuffed peppers their own. With minced chicken and rice, the filling turns out a little dry. This situation can be corrected by adding a few tomatoes to it. In this case, for work you will need: 1.5 kilograms of bell pepper, 1 onion, a glass of rice, 2 tomatoes, 1 carrot, 600 grams of chicken meat, a tablespoon of vegetable oil, salt and half a bunch of parsley.
Now you need to proceed as follows:
- First, you need to cut the onion randomly, the tomatoes into cubes, and grate the carrots.
- Then heat the oil in a frying pan. Place the onion in it and saute it lightly.
- After this, add the carrots and fry them together for 3 minutes.
- Add the tomato pieces and simmer all together for 5 minutes.
- Turn the meat into minced meat using any mechanism available for this.
- Combine the products and mix them so that the mass is as homogeneous as possible.
- Clean the peppers from partitions and seeds, and then fill the free space with the prepared mixture.
- Place the preparations in a saucepan and add salted hot water.
At a medium boil, the stuffed vegetables will be ready in 20 minutes.
Original fill
Some people believe that the taste of stuffed peppers is determined only by the composition of the filling. Experience shows that this opinion is wrong. You can verify this by preparing an unusual pepper stuffed with minced chicken and rice. The recipe calls for the following ingredients:
for 1 kilogram of sweet pepper you need 80 grams of rice, 1 onion, 0.5 kilograms of fresh tomatoes, salt, 300 grams of minced chicken, 1 carrot, 70 grams of hard cheese, 2 cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of tomato paste, ground pepper, 2 teaspoons sugar, a glass of broth, 2 bay leaves, spices and vegetable oil.
The process technology remains virtually the same:
- The peppers must be washed, cut off the top of each of them, and then remove all seeds and membranes.
- Cook the rice halfway and mix with the minced meat.
- Add salt, spices, pepper and cheese, chopped on a coarse grater.
- Fill the peppers with this mixture and place them in a deep container (pan) with a thick bottom.
- Pour the broth over the food and put it on the fire.
- At this time, fry the chopped onion with grated carrots. Then add tomatoes, minced in a meat grinder, salt, spices, sugar and boil it all for 5-6 minutes.
- Transfer the prepared filling into a saucepan. If necessary, you can add a little more broth. The peppers should be under a layer of liquid. At the very end add garlic and bay leaf.
After 40 minutes the fire can be turned off. Before serving, be sure to add juicy gravy and a little sour cream to each plate.
Oven Recipes
Experts say that stuffed foods do not necessarily need to be stewed in water. It turns out that it is much easier and faster to bake them in the oven. You can also prepare stuffed peppers with minced chicken and rice this way. To do this, you will need the following products: for 4 large sweet peppers, 3 tomatoes, 150 grams of hard cheese, an onion, 350 grams of chicken fillet, salt, half a small zucchini, turmeric, ground pepper, 2 tablespoons of sour cream and the same amount of vegetable oil.
To prepare a dish you need to perform several operations:
- Wash the peppers and cut them lengthwise into two parts. The tails and tops must be preserved, and the seeds and partitions must be removed.
- Cut the meat, onions, tomatoes and zucchini into small cubes. Add salt, sour cream, a little spices and mix well.
- Fill the pepper halves with the prepared mixture, sprinkle them with grated cheese and place in the mold.
- Baking in the oven will take no more than 15 minutes. Readiness can be determined by the baked cheese crust.
After this, the product can be eaten immediately using any sauces.
Energy value of the dish
Nutritionists consider this product to be very healthy and as balanced as possible. As you know, meat protein is difficult for the human body to digest. And vegetables that contain a lot of fiber make this process easier. These, of course, include peppers, carrots and tomatoes. In addition, all these products are not classified as “energy-intensive”. Therefore, minced chicken and rice deserve special attention. According to calculations, it is 79.8 kilocalories per 100 grams of product. This is very little, considering that the energy value of the same dish with minced pork exceeds 203 kilocalories. Of course, you can also use beef for the job. But this will not solve the problem, because the energy content of stuffed peppers with such minced meat will still exceed 113 kilocalories. Chicken meat in this case is an ideal option with the exception of turkey. If desired, the energy value of the finished dish can be reduced. To do this you can:
- use low-calorie brown rice (it also contains a lot of fiber);
- avoid frying the filling components (onions and carrots) and steam them;
- when selecting ingredients for the sauce, take more vegetable ingredients (paste or tomato juice) and less sour cream;
- reduce the percentage of meat in the filling by adding more rice and vegetables.
This will help reduce the rate as much as possible, which is very important for organizing proper nutrition.
Equipment in everyday life
It is very convenient to make stuffed peppers from minced chicken with rice in a slow cooker. Perhaps it is precisely for such dishes that it is intended. First you need to prepare the main ingredients: for 10 bell peppers, 400 grams of chicken meat, 1 onion, 3 tomatoes, salt, 2 tablespoons of rice, 1 carrot, water, spices and 35 grams of vegetable oil.
In this case, the dish is prepared differently:
- First, carrots and onions must be peeled, chopped, and then placed in a multicooker bowl and poured with vegetable oil. Set the “Frying” mode for 20 minutes so that the vegetables can saute a little.
- At this time, 1 pepper should be washed and cut into strips, and 1 clean tomato should be chopped into slices. Place both products on top of the fried onions.
- Finely chop the chicken fillet, add to the vegetables and fry without changing the mode for several minutes. Add salt and spices.
- Remove the remaining peppers from the insides in the usual way, and chop the tomatoes on a grater.
- Add rice to the vegetable mixture, stir and stuff the prepared peppers with the mixture.
- Place them vertically inside the bowl and fill with tomato pulp. Add salt and water.
- Set the display to “Extinguishing” mode.
Literally after 45 minutes the multicooker will let you know that the dish is ready. Now you can put it on plates and eat it with pleasure.
