Stuffed pepper cooked in a slow cooker wins not only in taste. The slow cooker allows you to minimize cooking time, eliminates the need to monitor the process. By adding mushrooms, changing the sauce, you can get a terrific taste of dishes that just can not get enough! We study the nuances of cooking.

Stuffed peppers with meat and rice in a slow cooker

Stuffed peppers - a fragrant dish that you want to eat all year round. Rice and meat, saturated with the taste of vegetables, become unusually tasty, and served with sour cream, turn into a real gourmet holiday and I want it to last forever! A slow cooker is the very device where you don’t need to stand, worry that the peppers will “run away” or boil the sauce. And even minced rice can be added to the minced meat and the dish stomped properly. How to quickly and easily cook stuffed peppers?

For a classic recipe, we need:

  • Bulgarian pepper of medium size - 1 kg (or 8-10 pcs.);
  • pork neck - 0.8 kg;
  • rice - a glass;
  • carrot - 1 pc. (large);
  • onions - 1 pc. (large);
  • ketchup or tomato paste - 3 tbsp;
  • vegetable oil - 50 ml;
  • water - 300 ml;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

Peppers are cleaned from grains and fleshy white veins. We rinse under running water. Pass the pork through a meat grinder. We clean the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into small cubes, and rub the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil, including the "Frying" mode. We mix the fried vegetables with minced meat, raw rice, which is previously important to rinse with water. Knead well.

Some housewives prefer to add raw carrots and onions.However, as practice shows, it is better to do the frying: so the filling is much juicier and tastier.

We stuff our peppers with minced meat, leaving 1 cm free from the edge. What is it for? Rice during the cooking process will swell and begin to "crawl out" of the peppers so that this does not happen, you must leave it a place. Stuffed peppers tightly lay on the bottom of the multi-bowl. You can close them on top with “caps” that remain during the preparation of peppers, or you can grind them and sprinkle peppers on top. Pour all the sauce with water and tomato paste. Cooking on the "Extinguishing". As soon as the slow cooker signals the end of work, turn off the stove.

Peppers are very tasty to eat with sour cream or natural Greek yogurt sauce. It is also delicious to mix yogurt with Dijon mustard - the dish turns out to be spicy and slightly spicy. Peppers with warm white bread and herbs are eaten.

Step by step recipe with minced chicken

Instead of pork, you can use minced chicken - with it peppers are much more tender. For minced meat, you can take chicken fillet, thighs (pitted), and pass them through a meat grinder. You can immediately add raw onions, although it is better to fry it a little in butter.

The dish will turn out very colorful if you buy multi-colored peppers: green, yellow, red. The size of the vegetables should be approximately the same.

A step-by-step recipe for peppers looks like this:

  1. We prepare peppers for stuffing, cutting out seeds and veins with a sharp knife.
  2. Add rice, spices, carrots and onions to the prepared chicken mince.
  3. We stuff peppers with minced meat.
  4. Put on the bottom of the multi-bowl.
  5. Pour cream and tomato paste sauce.
  6. Stew until ready in the "Meat" mode.

These peppers do not need additional sauce: creamy tomato filling turns out deliciously delicious, literally soaking every peppercorn from the inside. Generously pour the sauce, and eat with whole grain bread and parsley.

Pepper stuffed with vegetables

Sometimes it’s useful to depart from traditions and prepare light dishes, which, we assure, are no less tasty. They are easily absorbed, they can be eaten without fear for the figure. They are especially tasty in August, when the season of vegetables begins.

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Any gifts of nature are suitable for stuffing: eggplant, carrots, zucchini, cauliflower, pumpkins, tomatoes, in a word, you can put whatever you like. The vegetable filling is very juicy and surprisingly bright in taste.

It is very simple to prepare the stuffing:

  1. Cut any vegetables into small cubes (carrots can be grated on a coarse grater).
  2. Stew them in a frying pan until half-ready (or in a multi-bowl in the "Frying" mode).
  3. We stuff them with bell peppers.
  4. We put them in dense layers in a multi-bowl.
  5. Turn on the "Extinguishing" mode.
  6. Cooking until the signal about the end of the cycle.

Vegetable peppers are good to be eaten with a grain of cottage cheese, natural Greek yogurt, yogurt. They are delicious both hot and cold, serving as a hearty, but light cold appetizer.

With mushrooms

You can add mushrooms to the minced meat, mixing them with rice and vegetables. Such a dish turns out fragrant, and unusual - mushrooms slightly drown out the taste of pepper, making it much more delicate.

We prepare the mushroom stuffing, according to the instructions:

  1. Cut mushrooms into large pieces.
  2. Three carrots on a grater.
  3. Onion cut into half rings.
  4. Stew mushrooms, carrots, onions in a pan until half-cooked (or in a multi-bowl in the "Frying" mode).
  5. We mix vegetables and rice, boiled until half cooked (inside it should be raw).
  6. We stuff the bell peppers with the filling.
  7. We put them in rows at the bottom of the multi-bowl.
  8. Pour cream and tomato sauce.
  9. Sprinkle with spices.
  10. Cook on the "Extinguishing" mode.
  11. Cooking until the signal about the end of the cycle.

The dish is very popular with men for the pronounced mushroom taste. Peppers eat without a side dish - here it is not required. But it is important to sprinkle with a generous bunch of dill.

With beans and cabbage

There is another wonderful recipe that will surely appeal to lovers of a healthy lifestyle. These are peppers stuffed with cabbage and beans.

It’s easy to cook them, if you take peppers stuffed with vegetables as a basis. But here the main ingredient will be the beans, and complement it and give it more juiciness - white cabbage. Of course, you can pre-cook beans until soft. However, there is nothing easier than using ready-made beans, and both white and red varieties are suitable.

A step-by-step recipe looks like this:

  1. Rub carrots on a coarse grater.
  2. Dice the onion.
  3. Shred the cabbage very finely.
  4. Fry vegetables in the "Frying" mode until soft.
  5. Add beans (juice can be drained into a separate container, and then added to a multi-bowl with tomato paste).
  6. It starts with minced peppers peeled from the inside.
  7. We put them in tight rows in a multi-bowl.
  8. Pour the sauce.
  9. Turn on the "Extinguishing" mode.
  10. We cook until the signal about the end of the cycle sounds.

Peppers are juicy and good in any form. In addition, the bean culture is satisfying, so that the dish turns out to be solid, not inferior to meat options.

Stew in sour cream and tomato sauce

Most housewives do not think of stuffed peppers without pouring sour cream and tomato paste. You can cook them with fresh tomatoes, and the recipe only wins.

 

For cooking, it is easy to take a basic recipe as a basis. But, instead of the usual sauce, prepare ripe and soft tomatoes, which are peeled and rubbed on a grater until you get tomato puree (or grind in a blender). Then the tomatoes are mixed with sour cream, and peppers are poured with such a sauce. As a seasoning, you can safely use the finished mixture of Caucasian herbs - the aroma of the dish is delicious. Peppers are cooked in the "Stew" mode until soft. They eat, abundantly pouring sour cream and tomato sauce.

Nuances of cooking in a slow cooker: Redmond, Polaris

All multicookers have different functionality, so before cooking it will not be superfluous to carefully read the instructions. There are models, for example, multicookers of the Redmond brand, which have the special Peppers function, but in general peppers do not need a separate mode. Cooking time may also vary, although in general the whole process, starting from the preparation of peppers, does not exceed 60 minutes.

A dish can always be improved if you put sprigs of greens, garlic cloves on top of peppers, season with caraway seeds or a cube of broth.

Stuffed peppers are the kings of the summer and autumn table. But it will be very effective to serve them for the New Year holidays, when people get tired of the abundance of mayonnaise salads, meat under a cheese coat and other hearty dishes. To do this, you can freeze the whole peppers, and then stuff them with different fillings. Experiment, start differently and be healthy!

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