peppers recipes and questions

squeaky

Hi, our main thread on peppers is this one:- peppers recipes and questions

And lots of good ideas in other threads:- peppers threads here on Old Style MoneySaving

I'll add your query to our main thread later.

young_un

Hello
I have 6 medium sized green peppers left over from value packs and I was wondering if anyone has any recipes I could use them up in? Ideally I would love to use them for stuffed peppers
Thanks in advance
Xx

Patchwork_Quilt

If no-one comes up with a lovely recipe, you could always chop them and freeze them for future use in chillis etc.

valerie57

This isn't so much a recipe but here goes. I cut peppers in half and remove seeds. I fry off tomatoes and add sliced mushrooms towards the end. It doesn't take a lot of these - about one big tomato and 2-3 mushrooms a pepper. You could add fried onion too if you want or some herbs, dried or fresh. Then I put the tomato and mushroom mix into the halved peppers and stuff some cubed cheese in to the mix. I like brie or camembert but anything you have in would be nice. Then into to the oven at about 180 for somewhere between 20 and 30 mins. They are gorgeous. I serve with either salad or rice.

Alton_Towers

I stuff peppers with couscous, make couscous up with boiling water and stock cube, soften a diced onion, bit of garlic, add mushrooms or any other veg, courgette, tomatoes etc. stir into couscous. Split peppers, deseed then pile in couscous then top with crumbled feta or halloumi cheese and bake for around 30 mins.

meritaten

I dont usually like green peppers and ripen them on a sunny windowsill! but, green peppers and beef strips in black bean sauce is nice! (I cheat and use a jar of black bean sauce).

blossom36

ooh i love stuffed peppers! I make them a bit 'greek'!
Put the oven on 180. Cut tops off 4 peppers, take out seeds and shave bottom of peppers so they can stand in a casserole dish.
Place peppers upright in dish and put in oven for 20 mins.

Meanwhile chop up tops of peppers that you removed and an onion and fry together for 5 mins.
Add 200g minced beef, brown.
Add teasp oregano, half teasp cinnamon, 2 tablesp tomato puree and enough beef stock just to slightly loosen mixture. Cook for 10 mins.
Stir in a sachet of pre-cooked microwave rice. Season to taste.

Remove peppers from oven and fill with the mince/rice mixture. Crumble some feta or other cheese on top and put peppers back in oven for further ten minutes.

Yum!

heretolearn_2

I always seem to get stuck with the green ones as well as I don't like the taste as much as the other ones. I can't eat them whole stuffed or as big bits.

What I try to do now rather than bin them is find something I can chop them up small into as a minor ingredient rather than being the focus of the dish. So little cubes added into a pasta sauce or a cottage pie, where they just disappear into other ingredients, for example. Kinda how you sneak veggies into kids, lol.

young_un

Thank you for all your suggestions blossom I'm going to half of them with your suggestion and the other with chilli con carne I think
Xx

Pootle_3

I use green peppers when making carbonara, I fry chopped green pepper with the bacon/panchetta. Tastes lovely :-)