GREEK-STYLE STUFFED PEPPERS
One of the few dishes that is better served cold rather than hot. Absolutely delicious and very Mediterranean!!! It can be made vegetarian by replacing meat with soya.
Provided by GATOULA
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Greek
Time 1h20m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place green and red bell peppers in a bowl with enough warm water to cover, and soak 5 minutes.
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Place pork and onions in the skillet, season with salt and pepper, and cook until pork is evenly brown. Drain grease, and mix in wine and tomato puree. Continue cooking 10 minutes.
- Transfer skillet mixture to a large bowl, and mix in feta cheese, cooked rice, raisins, pine nuts, and parsley. Stuff peppers with the mixture, and arrange in a baking dish. Cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove foil, and continue baking 10 minutes, until stuffing is lightly browned. May be served hot or cold.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 354.5 calories, Carbohydrate 28.7 g, Cholesterol 53.9 mg, Fat 20.6 g, Fiber 5.1 g, Protein 15.2 g, SaturatedFat 8.9 g, Sodium 595.3 mg, Sugar 16.2 g
BELL PEPPERS STUFFED WITH RICE, RAISINS, AND PINE NUTS
Steps:
- For the filling, fry the onion in 3 tablespoons oil until soft. Add the rice and stir until thoroughly coated and translucent. Pour in 2 cups water and add salt, pepper, and sugar. Stir well and cook for 15 minutes, or until the water has been absorbed but the rice is still a little underdone. Stir in the pine nuts, currants or raisins, tomato, cinnamon, allspice, mint, dill, parsley, and lemon juice, as well as the rest of the oil.
- Retaining the stalk, cut a circle around the stalk end of the peppers and set to one side to use as caps. Remove the cores and seeds with a spoon and discard. Fill the peppers with the rice mixture, and replace the caps.
- Arrange the peppers side by side in a shallow baking dish, pour about water into the bottom, and bake in the oven preheated to 375°F for 45 to 55 minutes, or until the peppers are tender. Be careful that they do not fall apart.
- Serve cold, accompanied, if you like, by a bowl of yogurt beaten with or without crushed garlic.
STUFFED RED BELL PEPPERS WITH RICE, PINE NUTS AND CURRANTS
Choose peppers that can stand up easily, as they are baked upright. Garnish with lemon wedges. Published in the Jerusalem Post, Sept. 07.
Provided by Yaffa
Categories Peppers
Time 1h45m
Yield 6-7 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Heat 3 T olive oil in a saute pan, add onions and saute over medium heat for 10 minutes. Add rice and pine nuts and stir 5 minutes over low heat. Add currants, tomatoes, mint, allspice, sugar, lemon juice, salt and pepper; cook 2 minutes.
- Add 1 1/4 cups broth and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over low heat for 12 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.
- Taste and adjust seasoning; rice will be only partially cooked.
- Preheat oven to 175°C Cut a slice off stem end of peppers, leaving stem on. Reserve slice; remove core and seeds from inside pepper.
- Spoon stuffing into peppers and cover with reserved slices.
- Stand them in a baking dish in which they just fit.
- Add 1 1/2 cups broth or hot water to dish.
- Sprinkle peppers with 2T oil.
- Cover and bake for 1 hour or until peppers are tender, basting occasionally and adding a little more water if needed.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 281.5, Fat 15.6, SaturatedFat 1.9, Sodium 6.8, Carbohydrate 33.6, Fiber 3.3, Sugar 8.8, Protein 4.1
SICILIAN PEPPERS, RAISINS AND PINE NUTS
Provided by Marian Burros
Categories easy, quick, side dish
Time 10m
Yield 2 servings
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Chop whole onions. Saute onions in hot oil in a nonstick pan until soft.
- Meanwhile, slice whole peppers in a food processor, and add to the onions, cooking over medium heat until they begin to soften.
- Stir in raisins, pine nuts, salt and pepper, and continue to cook until peppers are softened.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 325, UnsaturatedFat 13 grams, Carbohydrate 45 grams, Fat 16 grams, Fiber 10 grams, Protein 7 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 165 milligrams, Sugar 24 grams
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