A delicious pepper with a special aroma that tomatoes and garlic give it. Makes a great side dish or appetizer. And several options for sauces for the dish.
Very delicious dish, the filling can be varied as desired.
If your family doesn’t accept meat-free dishes, just add minced meat to the filling. Or use it as a side dish for meat.
Ingredients
- Bell pepper - 7 pcs;
- Garlic - 6 teeth;
- Tomato - 2 pcs;
- Vinegar (balsamic, grape or apple) - to taste;
- Greens - to taste;
- Salt - to taste.
Cooking steps
Pepper recipe couldn't be easier!
- Cut the garlic and tomatoes into cubes.
- Make a cross-shaped cut on the nose of the pepper and place the filling inside. Don't forget to add spices.
- Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan and place the peppers there, fry on all sides (about 2-3 minutes on each side). Be sure to fry covered!
- Place the finished pepper on a dish, sprinkle with vinegar and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
When frying, peppers release a lot of moisture - as a result, after contact with hot oil, splashes fly in all directions.
- Mushrooms are a great addition to the filling.
- For lovers, you can add feta, suluguni or Adyghe cheese.
- It will be delicious to dip the peppers in sour cream. To do this, they can be fried without filling.
Roasted Bell Pepper Sauce
- Roasted peppers
- Salt, spices - to taste.
An excellent addition to a dish.
- Fry the whole pepper covered, then transfer it to a bowl and let cool.
- Carefully remove the film from the cooled pepper (note that the better you brown the pepper, the easier it will be to remove the film).
- Collect all the juice from the pepper. A few additions and you get a great sauce.
Preparing the sauce
- Squeeze the garlic, add salt.
- If desired, add freshly ground pepper.
- You can add balsamic vinegar or lemon juice to taste.
Pour the sauce over your peppers, let them soak a little and enjoy =)
To prepare fried peppers with tomato sauce needed bell pepper, tomatoes, garlic, vegetable oil, fresh basil, salt, ground pepper, sugar.
It is desirable that the bell pepper be smooth and medium in size. It needs to be rinsed well and dried with a towel.
Prepare aromatic tomato sauce.
You need to remove the skin from the tomatoes. Make a cross-shaped cut on top of the tomato. Place vegetables in boiling water for 30-40 seconds.
Prepare a bowl in advance cold water. Place blanched tomatoes in cool water.
Pour vegetable oil into a thick-walled saucepan. Add finely chopped garlic, the amount of which can be adjusted to your taste. Fry for about 1-2 minutes over low heat.
Cut the cooled and peeled tomatoes into small cubes and add to the saucepan. Stir and boil.
Rinse the fresh basil sprigs. Tear off the leaves and cut them into small pieces. Add to tomato mass. Stir and cover with a lid. Simmer over low heat for 25-30 minutes.
Add spices - salt and pepper. If the gravy seems sour, you can add a little sugar. Stir and cook for 1-2 minutes. Turn off the fire. At this step, you can take a blender and grind the sauce until smooth.
Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan. Warm it up thoroughly. Place the dried peppers. Fry over moderate heat until golden brown on all sides. It is better to cover the frying pan with a lid, as the oil shoots out a lot.
Sweet pepper widely used in the culinary and canning industries. Many different dishes are prepared from it. However, not everyone knows that the birthplace of this common vegetable is Guatemala and Mexico and that pepper is not a vegetable at all, but a berry, although not a very juicy one. It can have a variety of shapes and colors, is rich in vitamins and useful substances, and in terms of the content of carotene, vitamin P and vitamin C, it occupies one of the leading places among vegetables....
Ingredients
- one kg bell pepper
- half a kg of tomatoes
- one onion
- small bunch of parsley
- 25 grams granulated sugar
- 10 ml sunflower oil
- 2-3 garlic cloves
Preparation:
1. Wash sweet, fleshy bell peppers with cold water and prick them in several places with a fork. We will not remove the stalks with the seed capsule. To make the dish look more elegant and appetizing, it is advisable to use peppers of different colors.
2. Prepare tomato dressing. To do this, fry in vegetable oil finely chopped onions. While the onions are frying, let's start with the tomatoes. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes for 1-2 minutes, then peel them and chop them with a knife, or do it simpler: cut the tomatoes into two parts and grate each on a coarse grater. Discard the remaining peel. When the onion turns golden, combine it with the tomato mixture, add salt, sugar and simmer the mixture under the lid until the tomatoes are ready. You will get a homogeneous mass. Add garlic and chopped parsley, mashed with a small pinch of salt. Mix the tomato mixture well and remove from the stove.
3. Fry the bell pepper in vegetable oil on all sides.
4. Place the peppers on a large flat plate. Pour hot tomato mixture over it and let it soak for 10 minutes.
The dish is ready. Fried peppers are served cold as an appetizer for meat dishes. Bon appetit!
