Cooking delicious baked peppers in the oven

Baked peppers in the oven can serve as an excellent snack, and a very satisfying second course. It depends on how you prepare them. In the first case, vegetables are baked in a general form, and in the second - with the addition of minced meat. But first things first.

Baked Bulgarian pepper in the oven

There are many ways to bake a sweet pepper in the oven. We decided to present you the simplest and quickest recipe. To implement it we will need:

• Sweet pepper (yellow, green and red) - 3 pcs .;
• A ready mix of spices, consisting of salt, paprika, red pepper, dried basil, thyme and other - apply to your liking.

Cooking process

The presented recipe for baked pepper in the oven should be used only if you want to prepare a quick and easy snack. To make it, vegetables are thoroughly washed and dried with paper towels. Then they are completely laid out on a baking tray, which is pre-covered with cooking foil. In this form, the peppers are sent to the oven, heated to 230 degrees. They are baked until the skin turns black.

Once the peppers are cooked, they are removed and placed on a plate. The next stage should be cleaning vegetables from a hard film, pedicels and seeds.

Having received a tender flesh, it is cut into long strips and neatly laid out on a dish. On top of the vegetables sprinkle with a mixture of spices and presented to the table along with a slice of bread. This snack can be eaten with any dishes, as well as alcoholic beverages.

We make stuffed peppers, baked in the oven

If you need to get a tasty and satisfying full meal, the peppers should first be stuffed with meat, and then bake in the oven.

To prepare such a dinner we will need:

• Medium bulbs - 2 pcs .;
• Carrot small - 2 pcs .;
• Pepper ground and salt - used at discretion;
• Forcemeat ready mixed - 500 g;
• Tomato juice - about 2 glasses;
• Sunflower oil - 2 large spoons;
• Mayonnaise fatty - 70;
• Sweet pepper (take a short and thick) - 8 pcs .;
• Long rice - ½ cup;
• Egg large chicken - 1 piece;
• Sour cream fatty - 3 large spoons.

Preparing peppers

Before making baked peppers with minced meat in the oven, they should be properly processed. Vegetables are washed, the stem is carefully cut and the seeds are removed with septa.

Having carried out the given actions, you should receive original "glasses", which stably stand on a direct surface.

Preparation of the filling

Stuffed pepper, baked in the oven, preferably prepared from sour cream. To it add salt, pepper and chopped onions. After mixing the ingredients, leave the product aside for 15-25 minutes. That time they start preparing rice. He is sorted, washed and put into boiling water.

Boil the croup until soft, it is discarded in a sieve, rinsed and maximally deprived of moisture.

Once the rice is prepared, it is poured into the previously made minced meat and well interfered. Also to the ingredients add grated carrots, chicken egg and fatty sour cream.

Mixing the food with your hands, get a pretty thick and fragrant filling.

How to form a dish of peppers?

Before preparing the baked peppers in the oven, they should be properly formed. To do this, hollow vegetables are filled with minced meat and carefully rammed. Then all the semifinished products are laid out in a ceramic mold with a lid. If such utensils are not available, then you can use any other utensils, which should subsequently be closed with a dense culinary foil.

So, as soon as all the stuffed peppers are in shape, they are poured over with tomato paste and covered with mayonnaise mesh. Next, the dish is closed with a lid and sent to the oven.

How to cook stuffed vegetables in the oven?

Baked peppers in the oven are not prepared very long. As a rule, the meat filling becomes usable after 60 minutes. In this case, the peppers themselves should become as soft as possible.

Present to the dining table

Now you know the step-by-step recipe for baked pepper in the oven. As soon as the stuffing becomes soft, the dish is removed from the cabinet and left under a closed lid (or under the foil) for ¼ hour. Next, soft and tender peppers are spread over plates and poured with that broth that formed in the form.

Serve such a hearty and flavorful dish to the dinner table should be in a hot state. In addition to it it is necessary to present a slice of bread, chopped greens and fresh sour cream.

It should be specially noted that the baked peppers in the oven can not only be cooked for the daily dining table, but also used it as their crown dish for any holiday. Believe me, such delicious and tender peppers will be appreciated by absolutely all your guests.

Let's sum up the results

As we said at the very beginning of the article, you can bake peppers in the oven in various ways. If you like the recipe that provides for the filling, but you are a vegetarian, then it can be realized in another way. For example, some housewives fill the peppers not with minced meat, but with a mixture of stewed or raw vegetables. T Also, as a filling, fresh, fried or pickled mushrooms, pre-mixed with boiled croquet, onions and carrots, can be used.

Lunch with the use of such ingredients is no worse than a meat dish.