How can I cook stuffed peppers with rice?!
How can I cook stuffed peppers with rice?
Only rice, not cous cous and no meat. Do I create the mix with the herbs and the rice all at once, or boil the rice separately and then mix?
Answers:
STUFFED BELL PEPPERS AMERICAN STYLE
1 lb. lean ground beef
1 medium sweet onion
2 1/2 cups cooked Jasmine white rice
2 medium/large green bell peppers
2 15 oz. cans tomato sauce
8 heaping tablespoons honey
Prepare Jasmine white rice, fluff, cover and set aside.
Dice sweet onion, add to large non-stick saute/frying pan with lean ground beef. Sauté beef and onion until beef is browned. Drain fat, add 2 1/2 cups of Jasmine white rice to browned beef and diced sweet onion; mix.
Cut green bell peppers in half, remove caps and seeds; rinse. Pour 1 15 oz. can of tomato sauce into measuring cup and add 4 heaping tablespoons of honey and blend. Pour tomato sauce mixture over beef and rice; mix.
Add second 15 oz. can of tomato sauce to measuring cup and add 4 heaping tablespoons honey; blend.
Add beef and rice mixture to green bell pepper halves. Arrange in glass casserole dish.
Pour tomato sauce mixture over and around stuffed bell peppers.
Bake at 350°F for 1 hour. Serve with a crisp cool salad.
Serves 4.
Cook the rice first, then mix other ingredients then stuff peppers!
I first cook rice,but only 3/4 cooked, so is little bit crunchy then add whatever i want and stuff peppers. and keep basting with veg stock, it makes them moist.
Cook the rice first. You have a Greek name - don't you have any female relations?
Ingredients
? red pepper, cut in half lengthways and seeds removed
drizzle olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
85g/3oz cooked rice
2 mushrooms, sliced
55g/2oz Stinking Bishop cheese
handful spinach leaves, shredded
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.
2. Place the red pepper onto a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and place in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a pan over a medium heat. Add the cooked rice and the mushrooms and stir-fry until the mushrooms have softened.
4. Add the cheese and shredded spinach and cook for a further two minutes.
5. Spoon the rice mixture into the pepper half and then bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, until the cheese has melted.
6. Remove the stuffed pepper from the oven and transfer to a warm plate to serve.
Mediterranean Stuffed Peppers
Ingredients:
6 md. red or green capsicums, even in size
Stuffing:
3/4 cup rice
4 tbsp. olive oil
2 onions, chopped
2 tbsp. pinenuts
1 tsp. salt
3 lg. ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded, chopped
1/4 tsp. ground pepper
1/4 tsp. allspice
2 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. chopped parsley
Directions:
In a bowl cover rice with boiling water and stand until it cools to room temperature. Drain and rinse with cold water; drain. Heat 2 tbsp. of oil in a saucepan; add the onion and sauté? until pale golden. Add pine nuts and fry for a minute. Add drained rice and salt and continue to stir until rice is translucent, approximately 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, 1/2 cup boiling water, spices, sugar and parsley. Reduce heat and cook a further 15 minutes until liquid is completely absorbed. Allow to cool completely.
Cut the tops off the capsicums and remove the seeds. Fill with rice stuffing without packing tightly, and cover with the lids. Arrange close together in a heavy pan and drizzle with the remaining olive oil. Pour over 1/2 cup boiling water; cover and simmer 25 to 30 minutes or until rice and capsicums are tender. Add more water if necessary to avoid burning. Cool in pan.
Gemista you mean i think, all together doint boil rice first, just before you put in the oven pour some water in each .