Stuffed peppers with tomato paste in a pan

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 15 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make stuffed peppers with tomato paste in a saucepan? First, prepare the bell peppers. They should be large, dense, not flaccid. It is better to take peppers of different colors to make the dish bright and beautiful. If the peppers are small, then you may need 4-5 of them for this amount of filling.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the peppers thoroughly, cut off the caps and remove the seeds. Don't throw away the lids - you'll still need them to cover the stuffed vegetables.

3. STEP 3

   

   Prepare the necessary ingredients for minced meat. Minced meat can be used from one type of meat or poultry (for example, chicken, beef or pork) or mixed. I have minced pork and beef. You can replace dry garlic with two fresh cloves passed through a press.

4. STEP 4

   

   Rinse the rice with cold water, place in a sieve and dry.

5. STEP 5

   

   Mix the minced meat with rice, dried garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl.

6. STEP 6

   

   Knead everything thoroughly.

7. STEP 7

   

   Fill the bell peppers with the prepared minced meat.

8. STEP 8

   

   Prepare all ingredients for the sauce. Usually the sauce is prepared using tomato paste diluted with water. But I recommend adding a stalk of celery to the pan. Thanks to it, the sauce will be very aromatic and acquire an interesting taste.

9. STEP 9

   

   Wash the celery stalk and cut into pieces. The size of the pieces is not important, the main thing is that they fit between the peppers.

10. STEP 10

    

    Dilute the tomato paste with water and mix well until smooth.

11. STEP 11

    

    Place the peppers vertically on the bottom of the pan. They must stand close to each other and not fall. I had a 1.5 liter saucepan.

12. STEP 12

    

    Pour 1 tbsp into each pepper. l. sauce. Pour the remaining sauce into the bottom of the pan. The sauce should reach ¾ of the peppers. If there is not enough sauce, add more water to the pan. Add celery pieces, bay leaves and allspice peas to the sauce. Cover the vegetables with lids.

13. STEP 13

    

    Place the saucepan with the peppers over medium heat. Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce heat and simmer covered for about 45 minutes until the filling is ready. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Natalia M

03.11.2023

4.9

I have prepared so many versions of stuffed peppers, but it turned out that there is another way) I always boil rice for stuffing, and then add raw rice. I was worried that it wouldn’t cook well and would be soggy and tough. In fact, everything turned out at the highest level. My peppers were frozen; they were peeled before freezing, so there were no lids. I prepared a large portion at once, our family loves such peppers, cooking too little is not an option) I added a small onion to the minced meat for juiciness, and put it together with the meat through a meat grinder. From the meat I took half pork and fatty beef. I didn’t fill the peppers completely with minced meat so that the rice had room to swell during the cooking process; this turned out to be the right decision. Another new thing for me in the recipe: the tomato sauce is poured directly into the peppers. I poured it from a measuring jug with a spout, which is very convenient. I poured the remaining sauce between the peppers and salted the sauce a little. I couldn’t find any celery stalks, so I added leaves. My peppers did not want to be installed vertically, because they were frozen and were sliding along the bottom of the pan. I guessed to pour a little boiling water on the bottom, the bottoms melted and settled perfectly. You can take note) So, ready-made stuffed peppers are just a miracle! I didn't even expect that uncooked rice could become so juicy and tender. Apparently the sauce contributed to this. The tomato inside the pepper made the minced meat very juicy and tasty, with a slight sourness. In general, peppers are appetizing and aromatic from celery, allspice and bay leaves. We really enjoyed! The children ate five of them at once) I strongly recommend everyone to try this version of stuffed peppers! Maria, thank you!

dumb Rena

03.11.2023

4.7

I kept looking for recipes with just such a classic pepper! Minced meat and that's it, nothing extra. Although everywhere they cook in their own way. Also, everywhere the rice was boiled, and we mixed the raw rice into minced meat, as in the recipe itself. Again, as we said below, we don’t fill the peppers to the brim, but so that there is room for the swollen rice. The only problem we always face when cooking peppers is how to fit them in the pan.