What to serve with stuffed peppers: the perfect garnish

Among the traditional summer dishes you can safely include stuffed peppers - a national dish of Bulgarian, Moldovan and Romanian cuisine. For its preparation, the Bulgarian pepper, rice and meat (most often beef) minced from seeds are used. Stuffed pepper is cooked in water or tomato sauce and served as an independent dish. But not all the landladies agree with this. They still puzzle over what to serve with stuffed peppers, and come up with more and more options for side dishes. Some of them are presented in our article.

Which side dish will suit a stuffed pepper?

To preserve most of the vitamins and minerals, modern housewives prefer not to cook stuffed peppers, but to bake in the oven. Otherwise, the technology of cooking is not much different from traditional recipes. We offer to stuff vegetables with ground beef and rice, then bake them, and also tell you what to serve with stuffed pepper, so that the dish turns juicy and beautiful at the same time.

Step-by-step cooking of the dish is as follows:

1. Fresh Bulgarian pepper (1 kg) should be washed under running water, cleaned of seeds, keeping the peduncles, and cut it in half along.
2. Prepare a filling of 700 g of ground beef, pre-cooked until half cooked rice (3 tablespoons) and fried in vegetable oil vegetables (onions and carrots). Add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Fill the halves of the sweet pepper with the prepared stuffing and put them in a deep roast for baking.
4. Prepare tomato puree. To do this, ripe tomatoes are passed through a meat grinder, then bring the tomato in a saucepan to a boil and grate it hotly through a sieve. In the resulting puree add spices to taste, give a second boil, and then pour the tomato into a peppercorn.
5. Stuffed pepper baked in the oven for about 1 hour under a layer of foil, while the volume of tomato sauce should be reduced by three times. The finished dish sprinkles with fresh herbs before serving.

In this case, there is no question about how to serve stuffed peppers. A photo of a dish prepared according to the recipe proposed above is presented above. Half a green stuffed pepper on a bright red tomato puree looks very stylish and exquisite. Bon Appetit!

Delicious sauce for stuffed peppers

Those people who prefer to serve stuffed peppers without garnish, like the recipes of delicious sauces to the dish. Especially by the way they will be to the baked pepper, where the gravy as a result of cooking in the oven remains very little. In this case, you can serve pepper stuffed as an independent dish on a separate plate, pre-watering it with a specially prepared sauce.

We offer two variants of sauce: sour-garlic and tomato sauce. The first sauce is prepared on the basis of sour cream (20%) with the addition of garlic, spices and herbs. For its preparation, whisk in one dish sour cream (250 g), squeezed through the press garlic (4 slices), a pinch of salt and black pepper. Greenery in the form of chopped fresh or dried dill is added at will. The finished sauce can be served in a special sauce bowl or pour the peppers directly from above, so that they are better soaked, become more juicy and aromatic.

Since the stuffed peppers according to the traditional recipe, as a rule, are prepared in a tomato sauce, then they are served with it to the table. Therefore, the proposed below version of the preparation of tomato sauce more suited to baked in the oven peppers, in or without gravy.

For tomato sauce, blanched and sifted tomatoes (1 kg), spices in the form of black and red pepper, salt, garlic (1 slice), onion (2 pieces), vegetable oil will be needed. During the preparation, tomato puree is first made to a thick consistency, and garlic, spices and salt are added to it 5 minutes before the end. Onions are fried in vegetable oil in a separate frying pan. Then it is combined with tomato puree and served on a table with stuffed peppers.

Stuffed pepper with mashed potatoes

Sauce sauce, but many side dishes to stuffed peppers do not suffice. For example, nourishing potatoes, boiled rice or some other porridge. And the first thing that comes to mind when you need to decide what to feed stuffed peppers, is to make mashed potatoes.

To prepare this classic side dish, boiled potatoes must be boiled in salted water. Cook it for 25 minutes from the boiling point of water or until cooked. After that, the water should be drained from the pan and the potato itself must be powdered with potato mushrooms, gradually adding melted butter (50 g) and warm milk (200 ml) to the puree. Prepared garnish to serve to the stuffed pepper immediately. When serving, mashed potatoes can be poured with gravy, in which pepper was stewed.

When preparing a traditional garnish, you can slightly deviate from the rules. For example, potatoes will be much more flavorful and tasty if you add garlic squeezed through the press, dill greens or cheese.

Fried young potatoes to stuffed peppers

If the preparation of stuffed peppers falls on the beginning of summer, when the sale is full of young potatoes, it is his, and not mashed potatoes, it is better to serve the garnish. At the same time, you can cook it right in the skin, where it contains the most useful substances for the body.

Consider another option, with which you can serve stuffed peppers. Garnish in the form of a young potato is prepared in such a sequence:

1. Smaller small potatoes in a peel are well washed with a brush and a sponge.
2. Boil it until half cooked in salted water for 10 minutes after boiling.
3. Remove the potatoes from the water, dry and put it in a frying pan with vegetable oil.
4. Fry from all sides until golden brown. At the end of the cooking process, add crushed garlic cloves and greens to the potatoes.
5. The garnish to the stuffed pepper is ready. It remains to lay it on the plate to the main dish and you can serve it to the table.

Delicious crumbly rice on garnish to pepper

Despite the fact that the filling for stuffed peppers is necessarily added to rice, it is also often served as a side dish to the main dish. Less commonly used buckwheat or other cereals. It would seem that rice is absolutely not the product with which to serve stuffed peppers. But in fact, to taste these two dishes are perfectly combined with each other.

The secret of preparing crumbly rice for garnish is that the groats should not be washed or soaked before cooking. Only in this case it will be possible to preserve the structure of rice and not allow it to boil.

So, at the bottom of a dry pan, pour a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil, heat it and add rice (1 tablespoon). Stir rice with a wooden spatula until it becomes transparent. Now you can add boiling water (1.5 tablespoons), pre-salt it (1 teaspoon). Cover the pan with a lid and leave the side dish to languish on low heat until cooked. Open the lid and mix the rice is not worth it. When serving, the garnish is laid out on the bottom of the plate, and already on top of it are stuffed peppers. Bon Appetit.

How nice to serve stuffed peppers: a photo and a recipe for an unusual garnish

Meat stuffing is far from the only option for filling pepper. Vegetarians and people who adhere to the church fast, prefer to cook this dish with mushrooms. In this case, to make the stuffed pepper turned out also very useful, in the recipe instead of the usual white brown rice is used. With this cooking technology, the vegetable halves with the filling are baked in the oven in a tomato sauce. After this, it will be necessary to serve beautifully the stuffed peppers to the table so that even the true meat eaters can not stand by their appetizing form.

For 4 servings, you will need to cleanse the seeds and cut in half along two large red peppers. At this time, cook until brown rice is ready to cook in a 1: 2 ratio (1 glass of rice - 2 cups of water or vegetable broth). Mushrooms chop. Combine rice, mushrooms and a portion of tomato sauce in one bowl. The filling should be sufficiently moist, but not liquid. Pour half of the peppers with the resulting mass, pour the remaining sauce (just need 1 ½ cup), cover with foil and send the dish to the oven for 40 minutes, bake at 200 degrees.

It remains to find out what to feed the stuffed pepper. The garnish, the photo of which is presented above, suggests the use of such ingredients for its preparation:

• Thinly sliced leeks (4 pcs.);
• Raisins (½ cup);
• Vegetable broth (¼ cup);
• Salt and pepper to taste.

To prepare the garnish, it is necessary to puff leek and raisins in a vegetable frying pan in a vegetable pan, adding salt and pepper to taste. When the onion becomes soft, and the liquid is absorbed, the dish can be removed from the fire and spread on a plate to a stuffed pepper.

Garnish "Salad Mix"

Potato or pea puree with butter, rice or any other cereal as a side dish is ideal. But what about those who try to minimize the number of calories in the prepared dish? With what to feed stuffed peppers to those who adhere to a rigid diet?

The ideal option in this case will be a side dish in the form of a mixture of lettuce leaves and vegetables, which are already washed and dried in special packages called "Salad Mix". One such package may contain arugula and chard, chinese cabbage and spinach, Iceberg salad, radish and carrot plates, cabbage with carrots and celery, etc. The meaning of this mix is that it is enough to pour the contents of the packet into a bowl, fill it Its butter, and lettuce is ready. It can be served as a side dish to any dish, including stuffed peppers.

Rustic salad with stuffed peppers

A light salad of fresh vegetables, with a juicy onion, seasoned with vegetable oil, will not leave anyone indifferent. With what side dish to serve stuffed peppers, if the street is summer, not even discussed. A low-calorie salad of cucumbers and tomatoes will harmoniously complement the taste of the main dish, while practically not adding to it calories. Prepare a garnish is easy.

First you need to wash and cut into random order cucumbers and tomatoes. Then add onion semirings, Bulgarian pepper and other vegetables that fit to taste. As a dressing, you can use any vegetable oil, for example sunflower, linseed or olive. For spicy sour salad, sprinkle with lemon juice, and sprinkle with greens for a spectacular feed. The garnish is served on one plate with stuffed pepper. And that the sauce does not mix with vegetables, pepper it when serving is not worth it.

Elegant garnish of baked pumpkin

Traditional side dishes to a stuffed pepper in the form of mashed potatoes, rice or buckwheat bother very quickly. Over time, I want to try to cook something new and interesting. A delicious alternative to boring garnishes can be a pumpkin baked with herbs, spices and olive oil. It turns out so delicious that the question of what to serve with a stuffed pepper to the festive table, disappears by itself.

To prepare a garnish according to this recipe you need a muscat squash pear-shaped, or rather that part of the fruit where there are no seeds. It needs to be thoroughly washed and peeled with a vegetable peeler. Then the pumpkin is cut into cubes of small size (approximately 2 cm thick). Then they must be put in a baking dish in one layer and mixed with spices.

The amount of spiciness with which a pumpkin is baked can be adjusted to your own taste. Mandatoryly added squeezed through the press garlic (4 slices), red and black pepper, salt, rosemary, a little olive oil. After this, the mold should be shaken well, and the nutmeg should be rubbed on top. The pumpkin is baked in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees 30 minutes. During cooking, the dish should be stirred, so that the vegetable cubes are baked evenly. Ready to put the pumpkin on a plate to a stuffed pepper. At will, you can decorate the garnish with green onion and grated Parmesan cheese. From this, the taste of the dish will only benefit.

String beans in tomato sauce for garnish

Fresh or thermally processed vegetables are the most common garnish option for stuffed peppers. They complement the taste of the prepared dish, make it more harmonious and interesting. Along with traditional lettuce leaves, cucumbers and tomatoes, it is possible to cook a string bean as a garnish. This will not only diversify the taste of the dish, but also beautifully serve stuffed peppers.

To prepare a garnish, the bean pods must be boiled until half cooked. To do this, their ends must be cut off, and the prepared pods should be left for no more than 4 minutes in a saucepan with boiling salted water. The ready-made string bean is tossed to a colander and cooled.

In the meantime, fry several cloves of garlic crushed on a flat side with olive oil. After a couple of minutes, remove the garlic, adding a pod of string beans and chopped cherry tomatoes. You can use ordinary tomatoes. However, they must first blanch, remove the peel and only then cut into cubes. String beans are cooked in tomato for about 5 minutes, then spreads on a plate to a stuffed pepper. This garnish can be served in hot, cold.

The ideal garnish for stuffed peppers everyone chooses for himself. Someone prefer fresh salads from vegetables or traditional mashed potatoes, and someone prefers to serve the dish separately from the garnish. The taste of stuffed peppers from this will not get worse or better, only his presentation will change.