Best Tuna Stuffed Piquillo Peppers Recipes

Tuna-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers image

Provided by David Tanis

Time 20m

Yield 4 to 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 (6- to 7-ounce) jar high-quality Spanish or Italian tuna
1 tablespoon small capers or roughly chopped large capers
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 teaspoon chopped mint
1/4 cup celery, tender center stalks and leaves
1/2 cup finely diced red onion or chopped scallions
Salt and pepper
1/2 teaspoon red-pepper flakes, or to taste
1 teaspoon lemon zest, plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice (from 1 lemon)
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
12 piquillo peppers, from a jar
Lettuce leaves, for garnish (optional)
Hard-boiled eggs, cooked for 8 minutes, for garnish (optional)

Steps:

Drain the tuna and put it in a medium mixing bowl. Use a fork to break tuna into large flakes and push to one side of the bowl.
Put capers, parsley, mint, celery and onions on the other side of the bowl and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add red-pepper flakes, lemon zest, lemon juice and olive oil, then stir the mixture to coat tuna well.
Use a teaspoon to fill each pepper with some of the tuna mixture.
Arrange stuffed peppers on lettuce leaves on a platter. Garnish with quartered or halved hard-cooked eggs sprinkled with salt. Serve at cool room temperature.

Tuna Stuffed Piquillo Peppers Tapas image

Provided by Pesto lover

Categories Tuna

Time 20m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

piquillo pepper, drained and patted dry
2 (7 ounce) cans tuna in vegetable oil
4 green onions, finely chopped
1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped
1 teaspoon sherry wine vinegar
1 small garlic clove, minced
1/2 cup black olive, chopped
1 egg, hard boiled, chopped
1/2 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika

Steps:

Drain tuna and flake with a fork.
Mix all ingredients except peppers into tuna, lightly.
Stuff peppers with tuna mixture.Refrigerate at least 20 minutes.
Serve cold.
For the egg, put egg in pot of cold water on high heat. When it comes to a boil, cover and turn off heat. Let sit 10 minutes. Peel under cold running water,.

Tuna-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers image

Number Of Ingredients 9

Steps:

Drain the tuna and put it in a medium mixing bowl. Use a fork to break tuna into large flakes and push to one side of the bowl.
Put capers, parsley, mint, celery and onions on the other side of the bowl and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add red-pepper flakes, lemon zest, lemon juice and olive oil, then stir the mixture to coat tuna well.
Use a teaspoon to fill each pepper with some of the tuna mixture.
Arrange stuffed peppers on lettuce leaves on a platter.