Italian Style Stuffed Peppers

Name: Italian Style Stuffed Peppers
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 3 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: Tomatoes – 4 nos, big (roughly chopped); Garlic – 5 cloves (finely chopped); Onion – 1 no, medium (finely chopped); 1 tsp Oregano powder; 3/4 tsp Red chilli powder or Red flakes; Pepper powder – ½ tsp (optional); Sugar – ½ tsp (totally optional, but I like to use in the sauce); 1/2 tsp Salt (adjust as per taste); 2 tbsp Olive oil; Cooked rice– 1&1/2 cups (any type of rice can be used; Bellpeppers or Capsicum– 3 nos (use any colors of bell peppers); 2 tbsp Olive oil; Onion – 1 no (chopped); Potato, parboiled – 1 medium (chopped); Carrot, parboiled– 2 medium (chopped); Cilantro leaves – a handful; 1/2 tsp Oregano; 1 tsp Pepper powder; 1 tsp Red chilli flakes; 1/2 cup Mozzarella Cheese; Bread crumbs – ¼ cup (gives crispiness to the dish.)

Pranjali @Foodydelight @cook_7836808

Bengaluru

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Italian Stuffed Peppers is a delicious one bowl meal that makes it a cinch to eat a wholesome meal during the weekend. It is loaded with cooked rice, seasoned veggies and mouth licking marinara sauce. To enhance it's flavor and bring richness to the dish, it is done with cheese and breadcrumbs for a crispy topping which is truly amazing. This dish can be served as like a wholesome meal or can be served with toasted garlic bread.

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Pranjali @Foodydelight @cook_7836808

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Ingredients

1 hour

3 people

To Make Marinara Sauce
Tomatoes – 4 nos, big (roughly chopped)
Garlic – 5 cloves (finely chopped)
Onion – 1 no, medium (finely chopped)
1 tspOregano powder
3/4 tspRed chilli powder or Red flakes
Pepper powder – ½ tsp (optional)
Sugar – ½ tsp (totally optional, but I like to use in the sauce)
1/2 tspSalt (adjust as per taste)
2 tbspOlive oil
Other Ingredients Needed
Cooked rice– 1&1/2 cups (any type of rice can be used
Bellpeppers or Capsicum– 3 nos (use any colors of bell peppers)
2 tbspOlive oil
Onion – 1 no (chopped)
Potato, parboiled – 1 medium (chopped)
Carrot, parboiled– 2 medium (chopped)
Cilantro leaves – a handful
1/2 tspOregano
1 tspPepper powder
1 tspRed chilli flakes
1/2 cupMozzarella Cheese
Bread crumbs – ¼ cup (gives crispiness to the dish.)

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Steps

1 hour

1

Roughly cut the tomatoes and crush them into the mixer. Do not over ground them. It’s ok, if there are chunks of tomatoes left in it.
Heat oil and add chopped garlic. Fry them till they slightly changes it's colour.
Then add chopped onion. Fry till onion turns pink.
Add crushed tomatoes. Stir and cook till tomatoes leaves the oil at the sides of the pan
Finally flavor the sauce with oregano, pepper powder, redchilly flakes, sugar and salt. Mix well and cook sauce for another 3 to 4 mins.
2

Heat oil into a pan. Add chopped onion and fry till onion is transparent.
Add all the parboiled veggies and season them with salt, oregano powder,pepper powder and red chilli flakes. Mix well and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
Mix in the cooked rice, marinara sauce and chopped cilantro. Give a nice stir, so that rice and veggies incorporates with each other.
Reserve little quantity of marinara sauce to top it on the stuffed bellpeppers.
Taste for seasoning. Add the seasoning if needed.
3

Preheat oven at 180 Celsius.
Wash the bellpeppers and pat them dry using kitchen towel before using in the recipe.
Cut the bellpeppers vertically into two halves. Remove the steam and scoop out all the seeds.
Stuff the rice-veggies mixture evenly into the bellpeppers and place them into the oil greased baking pan.
Sprinkle the cheese and bread crumbs. Then top each stuffed bellpeppers with spoon full of marinara sauce.
4

Bake the stuffed bellpeppers for 20 to 25 minutes until the bellpeppers are soft and the top is crispy.
5

Here we go Italian Style Stuffed Bellpeppers are ready.