Stuffed peppers with meat and rice in a slow cooker
Peppers stuffed with meat and rice are an excellent dish for every day. You can stew stuffed vegetables in a regular saucepan, but in a slow cooker the cooking process will be much easier.
Ingredients:
- pepper fruits (sweet);
- 145 g rice grains;
- 355 g minced meat;
- two carrots and two onions;
- three garlic cloves;
- three tbsp. spoons of tomato paste;
- spices, oil, water.
Cooking method:
- First of all, we cook the rice grains until tender and mix them with any minced meat.
- Then finely chop one onion and saute it in oil until transparent. Instead of butter, you can use lard, the dish turns out filling and very tasty.
- Grind one carrot and add it to the onion, fry until soft. Vegetables can also be pre-fried in a multicooker using the “Fry” mode.
- Mix the fried vegetables with minced meat and rice, add spices, you can add any chopped herbs.
- We remove the seeds from the sweet peppers and start by placing them in the bowl of the device.
- Now let's prepare the sauce. To do this, fry the remaining vegetables until soft, add finely chopped cloves of the spicy vegetable, tomato paste, pour in water (700 ml), add salt and a little sweet sand, and cook the gravy for ten minutes.
- Pour the prepared sauce over the peppers, turn on the “Stew” mode and cook the dish for 1.5 hours.
Ingredients:
Bulgarian pepper | - 1 kg. |
Onion | — 250 gr. |
Carrot | — 150 gr. |
Tomato paste | — 65 gr. |
Tomatoes | — 850 gr. |
Raw rice | - 1/2 tbsp. |
Sunflower oil | - 55 ml. |
Salt | - 2/3 tbsp. l. |
Greenery | - 1 bunch |
Garlic | - 2 slices |
Sugar | - 1/2 tsp. |
Our recipe is designed to use young bell peppers, and they are no different in size. If you prepare a dish in winter, when large varieties are on sale, their number will need to be reduced from 8 to 4.
Peppers stuffed with vegetables
In the summer we try to prepare as many vegetable dishes as possible, because they have more benefits than fatty meat dishes. We offer you a recipe for stuffed peppers with vegetables. We will cook in a slow cooker, which will make the dish both tasty and healthy.
Ingredients:
- sweet pepper fruits (10-12 pcs.);
- two carrots and two onions;
- three ripe tomatoes;
- 325 g cabbage (white);
- 110 ml tomato paste;
- teaspoon of Provençal herbs;
- salt, pepper, oil, herbs.
Cooking method:
- First of all, we prepare the filling for the peppers; you can use a frying pan or a slow cooker.
- So, chop the onion into cubes and fry in the “Stew” mode in a small amount of oil. As soon as the onion turns golden, add grated carrots and simmer for ten minutes.
- Remove the skin from the tomatoes, cut the pulp into slices and add to the rest of the vegetables, also add tomato paste, mix and simmer for seven minutes.
- Place some of the vegetables in a bowl, and add finely shredded cabbage to the rest and simmer for ten minutes until soft. Place the finished filling in a separate container and cool, then mix with chopped herbs and spices. We wash the bowl.
- We clean the peppers from seeds, stuff them with vegetables and place them in a bowl, pour in water, and place the remaining vegetables on top.
- In the “Stew” mode, cook the peppers for an hour.
Red hut with pies
Stuffed peppers in a slow cooker
Cooking stuffed peppers in a slow cooker is no hassle. The slow cooker is cooking, you are walking! Hot peppers are ready for your arrival.
However, different multicookers have their own cooking characteristics. Below I provide recipes for cooking stuffed peppers in a Panasonic multicooker and a Redmond multicooker.
Ingredients:
(for 8-10 pieces)
- 400 g minced meat;
- 60 g dry rice or 150 g boiled rice;
- 8-10 medium-sized sweet peppers;
- 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 3-4 tomatoes;
- salt pepper.
Grind pork and beef in approximately equal proportions, an onion and 2-3 cloves of garlic in a meat grinder. If the meat is lean, you can roll in a piece of fresh lard. Add salt and pepper to the minced meat.
Wash the rice, pour 1.5 cups of water into it, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Place the rice in a colander to drain the water. Do not rinse. Cool the rice (you can directly in a colander).
Mix cooled rice with minced meat.
Prepare sweet peppers. Core the peppers and rinse the inside with water to remove the seeds. Fill the peppers with the prepared minced meat.
Cooking stuffed peppers in a 2.5 liter Panasonic multicooker
Pour vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and add the stuffed peppers. Pour hot water so that the water covers the peppers (but not higher than the maximum volume). Place grated tomatoes without skin on top. Salt and sprinkle with pepper. Close the multicooker and turn on the “Baking” mode for 40 minutes. Then turn on the “Extinguishing” mode for 1 hour.
Stuffed peppers in a Panasonic multicooker
Cooking stuffed peppers in a Redmond slow cooker
Pour vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and add the stuffed peppers. Close the multicooker and turn on the “Fry-vegetables” mode for 5 minutes. During the frying process, turn the peppers on the other side, let them fry a little and pour in half a glass of water. The Redmond multicooker has the feature of taking a long time to reach the mode, so if the frying mode lasts longer than the set time, you can simply turn it off at the right time by pressing the “Cancel” button.
Pour tomato puree over the peppers and lightly salt.
Turn on the “Extinguishing” mode for 40 minutes.
Stuffed peppers in a multicooker Redmond
Notes.
1. You can add garlic, fried onions and carrots to the minced meat. You can see the preparation in the additions to the recipe “Stuffed peppers in a slow cooker.”
2. For cooking, you can use frozen sweet peppers.
Similar recipes:
Stuffed cabbage rolls in Armenian | Stuffed cabbage rolls and peppers with minced chicken and apple | Assorted cabbage rolls and stuffed peppers with potatoes in a slow cooker |
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Frozen stuffed peppers in a slow cooker
You can safely freeze stuffed peppers to prepare a tasty and satisfying dish at any time. For the filling, you can take commonly used ingredients - rice and minced meat.
Ingredients:
- 8 pcs. semi-finished products;
- a glass of sour cream;
- two tbsp. spoons of ketchup;
- 0.5 teaspoons each of basil and oregano.
Cooking method:
- If you decide to defrost the peppers, it is better to do it in the refrigerator, since at room temperature they lose their appetizing appearance.
- Place the frozen peppers, minced side up, into the bowl of the electrical appliance and pour in a sauce of ketchup, sour cream and herbs.
- Turn on the “Stew” mode and cook the dish for two hours.
Required Products
In order to quickly prepare stuffed peppers in a slow cooker, a step-by-step recipe with photos recommends that you take into account the model of the device. After all, different appliances prepare this dish in different modes.
Ingredients:
- bell pepper – 9-12 pcs;
- minced pork and beef – 400-450 g;
- rice – 220-240 g;
- carrots and onions – 1 pc. each;
- tomatoes – 4 pcs;
- garlic cloves – 2-3 pcs;
- dill or parsley - a bunch;
- spices, sunflower oil.
You can add tomato paste or not too spicy ketchup to the filling for the peppers - the finished dish will acquire interesting, piquant notes.
Italian cooking recipe
We offer you another original recipe for Italian stuffed peppers. The dish has a spicy taste, which will be appreciated by your family and especially those who are looking for a dietary recipe for the dish.
Ingredients:
- four sweet peppers;
- one lemon;
- 220 g parmesan;
- three cloves of garlic;
- four tomatoes;
- dried basil, salt, herbs;
- two tbsp. spoons of olive oil.
Cooking method:
- Cut the peppers in half, remove seeds from each half and grease the inside with olive oil.
- Remove the skin from the tomatoes and cut the pulp into small pieces.
- We wash the greens, dry them and chop them finely.
- Cut the cheese into cubes and mix with tomatoes, flavor with citrus juice.
- Grind the cloves of the spicy vegetable and add them to the rest of the ingredients along with the herbs.
- Stuff the pepper halves with the prepared filling, sprinkle with dried basil and place in the oiled bowl of the device.
- Select the “Baking” mode and cook the dish for 60 minutes.
With mushrooms and rice
You can stuff sweet peppers not only with minced meat, but also replace it with mushrooms. This dish is especially suitable for those who are fasting or want to cook vegetarian peppers.
Ingredients:
- seven sweet peppers;
- 365 g mushrooms;
- two onions;
- half a cup of rice grains;
- two carrots;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of tomato paste;
- salt, pepper, oil.
Cooking method:
- Cook the rice grains in lightly salted water until tender. Cut the mushrooms into cubes. Chop one onion into small cubes, the other into half rings. Grate three carrots and divide the chopped vegetable in half.
- Pour oil into the bowl of the kitchen appliance, turn on the “Frying” mode and start frying the mushrooms, after two minutes add the onion cubes and one part of the grated carrots, fry until the vegetables are ready.
- Remove the seeds from the peppers and place them in boiling water for a couple of minutes.
- As soon as the fried mushrooms and vegetables are ready, take them out, cool and mix with rice and spices. Stuff the peppers with the filling.
- Now prepare the sauce from the remaining onions, carrots and tomato paste. If you are not fasting, you can add sour cream to the gravy. Place the stuffed peppers directly into the sauce, pour in water so that the liquid reaches the edges of the stuffed vegetables.
- Turn on the “Stew” mode and cook for an hour.
Sweet peppers with potatoes
Recipe for making peppers with potatoes and minced pork. Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 3 pcs.
- Tomato.
- Celery root.
- Onions, carrots.
- Rice – 50 gr.
- Pork pulp – 200 gr.
- Sweet pepper – 6 pcs.
- Salt pepper
- Ketchup
Stew onions with carrots, celery root in a slow cooker (can be separately in a frying pan). Twist the meat, add salt and pepper. Grate the potatoes and drain the juice. Boil the rice until half cooked. Mix all ingredients. Stuff the pepper pods (after removing the seeds).
Place vegetables in a slow cooker, cover with a slice of tomato on top, pour in a sauce of ketchup and water. Peppers should be poured no higher than the 1.8 mark. Cook in the “Baking” mode for 30 minutes.
Option with buckwheat
For those who like to experiment with ingredients, we suggest you stuff the peppers not with rice, but with buckwheat. You can add any meat, mushrooms or vegetables along with the cereal for the filling.
Ingredients:
- 10 sweet peppers;
- a glass of buckwheat;
- three onions;
- one large carrot;
- three tomatoes;
- A glass of tomato juice;
- a bunch of herbs, spices.
Cooking method:
- Cook the buckwheat in salted water until tender and leave to cool.
- At this time, let's fry the vegetables. To do this, chop the onion into cubes. You can add more onions, as this vegetable perfectly emphasizes the taste of buckwheat.
- Turn on the device to the “Frying” mode, pour in a little oil and sauté the onion in it until golden brown, then add the grated carrots and fry until the root vegetable is soft.
- Peel the skins from the tomatoes, cut them into pieces and add them to the rest of the vegetables, cook for five minutes.
- Afterwards, mix the roasted vegetables with buckwheat, chopped herbs and spices. We stuff the fruits of the peppers and place them in a clean bowl of the device. Pour in tomato juice, add salted water and cook according to the “Stewing” program for an hour.