Stuffed Pepper

Gigi · 8 Jun 2011 at 12:38

Looking for a wee bit of advice on doing Stuffed Peppers...

I recently had this at my fiancee's house, her mum did the cooking that night

and it was absolutely stunning! Now, i was looking at doing the same and was looking for suggestions on both what to "stuff" the pepper with and what to serve it with.

I should have asked her at the time but shes on holiday now for a few weeks.

Cheers for the help

lettucefire · 8 Jun 2011 at 12:40

i often put cous cous a little bit of pesto and topped with some kind of cheese (i often use feta) is nice. Good in the oven or even wrapped in foil and placed on a bbq

J1234 · 8 Jun 2011 at 12:40

Cous cous, rice, cheese, meat? You could stuff it with many things.

Razor-BladE · 8 Jun 2011 at 15:21

When my Dad stuffed peppers, chilis and aubergines, he stuffed it with a spicy black bean pork mince mix. It was so good!

Edit: Oh it was pork mince and prawns actually.

MisChief · 8 Jun 2011 at 15:45

Stuff peppers with minced prawns and coriander then cooked in Hoi Sin sauce

Judgeneo · 8 Jun 2011 at 15:47

cheese, couscous, red onion, mushroom? Bacon is good also

uv · 8 Jun 2011 at 16:30

rice, sultanas and cinammon and feta is damn tasty

shroomz · 8 Jun 2011 at 18:32

Rice+mince. Cook in soup. Nom

cram · 8 Jun 2011 at 18:39

Cheese & chorizo

Gigi · 8 Jun 2011 at 18:40

Some superb suggestions, will definately have to try them all out!

What do you serve them with? an extra serving of cous cous/rice/ veg?

Cheers again!

PlacidCasual · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:07

Rissotto is a great pepper filler and comes up nice and crunchy if you bang it in a hot oven. I suggest partially cooking the pepper first before stuffing or it will still be crunchy when the topping is brown.

uv · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:08

I had one recently from an Indian that was stuffed with chickpeas - darn tasty, and easy to make

Cosimo · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:28

My wife makes a mixture of fried mincemeat, fried lardons, rice, fried onions, whole egg, chopped parsley, tomato sauce and seasoning for the filling. Cooked in the oven. Served with a tomato sauce and salad.

Hairybudda · 8 Jun 2011 at 20:14

I like to stuff a pepper like a scotch egg.

Cut top off pepper, soft boil an egg and peel it, cover with some nice fatty sausage meat, wrap with bacon, pop in pepper (put some meat in the pepper too so there's no gaps around the bacon/egg inside), roast until cooked. Its so good.

Jegethy · 8 Jun 2011 at 23:52

I like stuffed red peppers. I stuff mine with a mixture of minced beef, (good quality) can of diced tomatoes in sauce, few cloves of garlic, cooked rice, thinly sliced onion, some dried herbs and a good amount of pepper.

Mix all the ingredients together, then stuff them into a pepper. I cut off the tops of the pepper to remove the seeds, then replace the top before baking so it serves as a lid. I prefer red as they're slightly sweeter, but it's good with green too.

Noxia · 9 Jun 2011 at 12:41

When my dad does "pepperinata" he uses lots of olive oil, anchovies, capers, and mushrooms.