Stuffed peppers with tomato paste in a saucepan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the necessary ingredients for the dish. We will need large bell peppers. They should be dense, not sluggish. It is better to take peppers of different colors so that the dish turns out bright and beautiful.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the bell peppers thoroughly, cut off the caps and remove the seeds. Do not throw away the lids - they will still be needed to cover stuffed vegetables with them. If the peppers are small, then they may need 4-5 pieces for such an amount of filling.

3. Step 3:

   

   Prepare the necessary ingredients for making minced meat. Minced meat can be used from any one type of meat or poultry (for example, chicken, beef or pork) or mixed. I have minced pork and beef. Dry garlic can be replaced with two cloves of fresh garlic passed through a press.

4. Step 4:

   

   Rinse the rice with cold water, put it on a sieve and dry it.

5. Step 5:

   

   Mix minced meat with rice, dried garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl.

6. Step 6:

   

   Knead everything thoroughly.

7. Step 7:

   

   Fill the bell peppers with prepared minced meat.

9. Step 8:

   

   Prepare all the ingredients for the sauce. Usually the sauce is prepared on the basis of tomato paste diluted with water. But I advise you to add a celery stalk to the pan. Thanks to him, the sauce will turn out very fragrant and will acquire an interesting taste.

10. Step 9:

    

    Wash the celery stalk and cut into pieces. The size of the pieces is not important, the main thing is that they fit between the peppers.

11. Step 10:

    

    Dilute the tomato paste with water and mix well until smooth.

12. Step 11:

    

    Place the peppers vertically on the bottom of the pan. They should stand close to each other and not fall. I had a 1.5 l pot.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour 1 tbsp of sauce into each pepper. Pour the remaining sauce into the bottom of the pan. The sauce should reach up to ¾ of the peppers. If the sauce is not enough, add more water to the pan. Put pieces of celery, bay leaves and allspice peas in the sauce. Cover the vegetables with lids.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put a saucepan with peppers on medium heat. Bring the sauce to a boil and simmer under the lid for about 45 minutes until the filling is ready. Bon appetit!