How to cook pepper stuffed without meat: recipes, varieties of fillings

Stuffed peppers do not like only those people who simply can not stand the smell and taste of this vegetable. The rest eat this dish with great pleasure. It is prepared, as a rule, with stuffing a la garlic: meat, rice, onions. However, not everyone likes the meat component. Sometimes, some people are required, for some reason or another, to know how to prepare a vegetarian version of such a dish. Well, the desire is natural, especially taking into account the popularization of a healthy lifestyle. So we will now tell you in detail how to make such stuffed pepper. Recipe (without meat, such a dish can really be cooked), and not one, will be presented to you below.

So, we begin. How to cook stuffed peppers without meat?

General principles

Do not think that pepper stuffed without meat will not be so delicious. Not at all. More likely, even on the contrary. Still, the rice and meat stuffing, however good it may be, also gets boring. And very few people, by the way, knows that it is possible to stuff this vegetable with other ingredients. Perfect for such purposes vegetables (all with the same rice or without it), mushrooms, buckwheat, pasta, cheese, shrimp, cottage cheese. As well as not all are aware of the fact that pepper stuffed without meat, you can not only stew, but also cook in the oven, multivark, on the grill. And even if you put it out, it's not just that, but in vegetable gravy, tomato juice, sour cream.

Preparation of products

Stuffed Bulgarian pepper, fillings for which can be very diverse, as we found out, it is not difficult to cook. This vegetable seems to be created in order to fill it with various ingredients. It's enough just to cut the bottom with a tail, get the septums with seeds - and please, the container for any stuffing is ready. By the way, pruning the bottom, you can grab a little more pulp and eventually get a beautiful cap, which after and cover the filling. As for color, size, variety, maturity, then you can stuff any specimens.

What are we actually going to do now.

Stuffed pepper: recipe without meat, classic. Ingredients

To cook this, a vegetarian dish, the hostess needs to stock up on the following products: ten sweet Bulgarian peppers, a glass of rice, one large onion, a carrot, a spoonful of tomato paste. The set, as you can see, is more than simple. The only thing that you should pay attention to is that rice should be taken round. It is more sticky, thanks to this filling it will be better to keep the shape.

How to cook

Rice is first carefully washed, not once. Then fall asleep in boiling water (a glass of cereal - two water). Stirring is not necessary. We cook for ten minutes on medium heat, then five more on the smallest under the lid. Turn it off. We leave to cool down. Cooking peppers. As described above. We make on vegetable oil a frying from the grated carrot and a randomly cut onion. We mix it with rice, pepper, salt. And then fill it with peppers. Do not try to ram them to the maximum. So peppers can burst, as a result the dish will turn out ugly. Then we cover them with lids from the bottom with a tail (this step can be skipped if desired). We put it in a saucepan, pour in mixed with tomato paste water (it should go to the top of the peppers), stew on a small fire for about forty minutes. You can serve with sour cream or mayonnaise.

This was the simplest recipe that most of our housewives use. But he is far from being the only one. Next, consider how to prepare a bell pepper stuffed with vegetables, in Greek. At home this dish is called "Gemista".

Greek version of stuffing

First we boil a glass of rice and cook ten peppers in the same way as above. Two eggplants are cut into small pieces, thoroughly salted and left in this form for twenty minutes. Thanks to this procedure, we will get rid of bitterness. In principle, the skin can be removed. Then the described stage can be skipped. Two carrots and one zucchini we clean, mine. Melenko we cut and add to them three hundred grams of chopped mushrooms. And then we put all this into a frying pan with red hot olive oil and fry for five minutes. Then add the eggplant. If you left them with a peel and kept in salt, then you should not forget to wash the pieces under running water. Fry all the vegetables for another 15 minutes. After that add the finished and washed rice, stir. We try, pepper, salt, mix again and after a couple of minutes turn off the fire. Leave the filling cool, and we will fill. Grate another grated carrot and chop five tomatoes. Fry everything in olive oil for five minutes. In two glasses of water (necessarily hot) we dissolve three table spoons of miso paste and one familiar tomato. Stir, pour the resulting mixture into vegetables. Add a tablespoon of sugar, salt-pepper, stew for about five minutes, no more. Then we stuff the peppers with chilled vegetables and mushrooms, put them in a saucepan, pour in the obtained fill and cook on a small fire under the lid for forty minutes. Immediately do not serve, give another half an hour to brew the dish. Well, then you can call your relatives to the table.

Pepper + mushrooms + pasta

"Pepper stuffed without meat - it's still far from it! But pushing mushrooms and pasta into it is just blasphemy! "- that's how many can exclaim. And they will raise the cry completely in vain. Such an original filling perfectly coexists with the taste of pepper and makes the dish very original. And in principle, what is surprising, by and large. Remember the same paste (in our opinion - banal pasta), in which the Italians add almost everything they see. Including peppers and mushrooms. So, if you think about it, you should not be indignant, but quickly run to the stove. To make pepper stuffed without meat in a completely different form.

How to do?

150 g spiralk (it is best to take this kind of pasta) is boiled to the state, which in Italy is called al-dente. And if our way, so that they do not turn into a mess, but were a little hard. Two carrots rubbed, the same number of tomatoes and onions cut arbitrarily but melenko, send everything to fry in a pan. After about five minutes, add 300 grams of boiled mushrooms to the vegetables. We cut the mushrooms too finely. Cook for 15 minutes, then pour two tablespoons of soy sauce, stir, turn off the fire, add macaroni. Two eggs beat up and add to them grated cheese (enough to take 200 g). Perch-solim. Stirring. We stuff the prepared peppers prepared properly peppers, pour water, mixed with five tablespoons of tomato paste, throw things five peas of black pepper, bay leaf. Fry in the oven for forty minutes. Necessarily under the lid. And then another half hour without it.

Filling with potatoes and butter

Three hundred grams of mushrooms (any - fresh, but boiled, or canned) should be cut into small pieces. Then add to them three grated potatoes on a large grater. In principle, if you want, you can also sprinkle onions. All the resulting mass must be salted, peppered, stirred, and then filled with peppers. And from the top, as it were, cork a dense circle of tomato. Put all this beauty platno in a saucepan, pour water, which stirred three spoonfuls of tomato paste, and after stewing the hour on the smallest fire.

We stuff with corn

When it comes to a dish such as pepper stuffed with vegetables without meat, it remains only to amaze the culinary imagination and the abundance of existing fillings. As with the following recipe. To cook on it Bulgarian pepper stuffed with vegetables, take a standard jar of corn, drain the liquid, and send the grains themselves to the pan with the heated olive oil. Add to them three melenko cut tomatoes, salt, fry until all the liquid has evaporated. We cut the peppers in half along, remove the seeds and septa, lay them on the foil-covered baking sheet, put it for twenty minutes in the oven at a temperature of no more than 150 degrees. Then we take them out, let them cool down, and then fill with corn-tomato stuffing, adding to it a bunch of sliced greens and one hundred grams of grated cheese. We bake for another half an hour.

A few words about the diet

By and large, almost all the above options (except for extreme with pasta and pepper with potatoes and mushrooms), by definition dietary. Except for one but. The cooking process involves roasting vegetables with vegetables and using sour cream. Therefore, all those who count each calorie should just skip the passaging step, and replace sour cream with low-fat unsweetened yogurt. And it is desirable to take brown instead of ordinary rice. That's the whole science. Or you can come up with your own version. And to make it easier, we'll give an example of this dish below.

Stuffed peppers are dietary. Recipe without meat, with beans

Three hundred grams of any bean boil to half cooked. Do the same with a glass of brown rice. Both ingredients cool, mix, add grated carrot and chopped onion. Salt. Fry the peppers and cook in a steamer for half an hour. You can serve to improve taste, with soy sauce.

Making workpieces

And now a few words about how to prepare a Bulgarian pepper, stuffed with cabbage, for the winter. It is worth noting that there are many recipes, but we will give the simplest, but because no less popular. All the components are given, on the basis of 10 pieces, of sufficiently large Bulgarian peppers.

We grind three hundred grams of cabbage, one bunch of green onion and ten branches of basil. We make marinade from a glass of white wine, half a glass of wine vinegar, one hundred grams of sugar, two tablespoons of curry and cumin and one and a half of the same spoons of salt. That is, simply mix everything, pour into a saucepan and bring to a boil. We remove the peppers from the pedicels, we clean and lower them into the marinade. Leave on a small fire for exactly three minutes. Then we take the vegetables, and in their place we throw cabbage. We hold one minute. We take a bowl, we put a colander on it, we throw cabbage. When it flows, mix it with herbs, stuff the peppers, add it in a three-liter sterilized jar, pour the marinade from the bowl. We top up boiled water, drain all the brine, bring it to a boil, pour it back into the jar, roll it up. An excellent snack for the winter is ready!

Conclusion

We tried to tell in detail how it is possible to cook a meatless Bulgarian pepper without meat. The filling for this vegetable, as we have seen, can be completely different. And the options given by us are a drop in the sea of available recipes. And if you consider that based on the available cooking methods you can create your own, then you can draw the following conclusion: and without meat, stuffed peppers can be quite tasty and sufficiently satisfying!