Italian Style Stuffed Peppers.
You can have Italian Style Stuffed Peppers using 23 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Italian Style Stuffed Peppers
- You need of To Make Marinara Sauce.
- You need of Tomatoes – 4 nos, big (roughly chopped).
- You need of Garlic – 5 cloves (finely chopped).
- It's of Onion – 1 no, medium (finely chopped).
- You need 1 tsp of Oregano powder.
- Prepare 3/4 tsp of Red chilli powder or Red flakes.
- Prepare of Pepper powder – ½ tsp (optional).
- Prepare of Sugar – ½ tsp (totally optional, but I like to use in the sauce).
- It's 1/2 tsp of Salt (adjust as per taste).
- It's 2 tbsp of Olive oil.
- You need of Other Ingredients Needed.
- It's of Cooked rice– 1&1/2 cups (any type of rice can be used.
- Prepare of Bellpeppers or Capsicum– 3 nos (use any colors of bell peppers).
- It's 2 tbsp of Olive oil.
- It's of Onion – 1 no (chopped).
- It's of Potato, parboiled – 1 medium (chopped).
- You need of Carrot, parboiled– 2 medium (chopped).
- It's of Cilantro leaves – a handful.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Oregano.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Pepper powder.
- You need 1 tsp of Red chilli flakes.
- You need 1/2 cup of Mozzarella Cheese.
- Prepare of Bread crumbs – ¼ cup (gives crispiness to the dish.).
Italian Style Stuffed Peppers instructions
- Roughly cut the tomatoes and crush them into the mixer. Do not over ground them. It’s ok, if there are chunks of tomatoes left in it. Heat oil and add chopped garlic. Fry them till they slightly changes it's colour. Then add chopped onion. Fry till onion turns pink. Add crushed tomatoes. Stir and cook till tomatoes leaves the oil at the sides of the pan Finally flavor the sauce with oregano, pepper powder, redchilly flakes, sugar and salt. Mix well and cook sauce for another 3 to 4 mins..
- Heat oil into a pan. Add chopped onion and fry till onion is transparent. Add all the parboiled veggies and season them with salt, oregano powder,pepper powder and red chilli flakes. Mix well and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in the cooked rice, marinara sauce and chopped cilantro. Give a nice stir, so that rice and veggies incorporates with each other. Reserve little quantity of marinara sauce to top it on the stuffed bellpeppers. Taste for seasoning. Add the seasoning if needed..
- Preheat oven at 180 Celsius. Wash the bellpeppers and pat them dry using kitchen towel before using in the recipe. Cut the bellpeppers vertically into two halves. Remove the steam and scoop out all the seeds. Stuff the rice-veggies mixture evenly into the bellpeppers and place them into the oil greased baking pan. Sprinkle the cheese and bread crumbs. Then top each stuffed bellpeppers with spoon full of marinara sauce..
- Bake the stuffed bellpeppers for 20 to 25 minutes until the bellpeppers are soft and the top is crispy..
- Here we go Italian Style Stuffed Bellpeppers are ready..