Sunday 12 April 2015

Stuffed peppers

Serves 7 

Ingredients
14 medium size peppers top stem removed ( I used scissors) 
Cut off about 1/2 inch from bottom
Remove seeds set aside keeping the bottom piece

Stuffing
1 lb ground chicken
1 lb ground pork
2 onions chopped fine
2 eggs
1/2 cup bread crumbs
3 cups cooked brown rice
1 tbsp. Montreal steak spice
1 tbsp. roasted garlic and pepper flakes
1 tbsp. basil
1 tbsp. garlic powder
 1 Tbsp.worchestershire sauce
1 pinch crushed chillies
Mix well

Put stuffing into peppers

Sauce

1 -8 oz package cherry tomatoes
4 kumato tomatoes ( or dark red tomatoes)
1 onion chopped in 4
1 carrot 
1 tbsp. oregano
1 tbsp. Montreal steak spice
1 tbsp. fresh chopped garlic
2 cups water

Thickening agent

1/4 cup cold water 
2 tbsp cornstarch
Mix with hands until smooth

Put in vitamixer and use tamper
Mix for 2 minutes until everything becomes a liquid


Pressure cooking method
Place rack on bottom of insert of electric pressure cookers
Put in 5 peppers
Pour 1/3 of sauce
Put bottom of pepper on top of stuffed pepper

Set electric pressure cooker to manual 10 minutes
When time is done hit cancel and manually release steam
Do three times 

When all peppers are cooked
Place in warm oven or fridge if going to freeze some

Transfer liquid from pressure cooker into a sauce pot and bring to boil
When comes to a boil add cornstarch and water
Once boiled turn off
Place stuffed peppers on place and pour over sauce

Oven method
Place peppers in a pan
Pour sauce over peppers
Cook in oven pre-heated to 350 F
Cook for 1 1/2 hours
Pour liquid from pan into sauce pot
When comes to a boil add cornstarch and water
Once boiled turn off
Place stuffed peppers on plate and pour over sauce









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