Secrets of making peppers stuffed with cheese

Sweet pepper is a foreigner for Russian cuisine. But the breathtaking smell, saturation with vitamins and minerals ensured its widespread distribution. The juicy pulp of the pepper blends perfectly with the cheese taste, and the garlic note adds spiciness and piquancy to such dishes.

Traditional recipe

Peppers stuffed with cheese and garlic are easy to prepare. For the basic recipe you will need:

three sweet peppers;
medium hard cheese – 250 g;
100 – 150 g butter or thick sauce;
garlic - 3 medium-sized cloves.

Peppers are well washed and seeded. The cheese is grated on a small grater.
Garlic can be crushed using any method. You can chop it, crush it in a garlic press or mortar, or grate it.
Both ingredients are ground with soft butter or sauce. From time to time, housewives grind the ingredients in a meat grinder.
The fruits are tightly stuffed with the prepared consistency and wrapped in foil. The dish needs to be kept in the refrigerator for 3-5 hours. During this period of time the mass will become dense.
The hardened peppers are carefully cut into rings about a centimeter wide.

A nice cool snack is ready.
Fundamentally! The butter must be removed from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes soft.
The dish will look most attractive if you choose peppers of different colors.

The options proposed below are prepared on the basis of the previous one. Manufacturing recipes do not involve heat treatment.

With fresh herbs and eggs

To make the snack you will need:

a couple of processed cheeses, 100 g of hard cheese;
2 large peppers;
two cloves of garlic;
2 hard-boiled eggs;
dill, parsley;
a tablespoon of sour cream and mayonnaise.

Both types of cheese are crushed on a small grater, combined with chopped herbs and crushed garlic.
The mixture is seasoned with mayonnaise and sour cream. Fundamentally! If you need to make the appetizer spicier, you can add only mayonnaise. For a soft version, you can get by with sour cream.
A spoonful of the consistency is placed at the base of the workpiece, compacted, then a whole egg is added.
Fill the rest of the area tightly with the cheese mixture.
Cool the same as in the basic recipe. When ready, cut into rings.

With cottage cheese

Peppers stuffed with cottage cheese and garlic are the warmest and least nutritious appetizer. To make it you need to prepare:

2 medium peppers, 1 tomato;
a pack of low-fat cottage cheese;
2 cloves of garlic;
1-2 tablespoons of low-fat sour cream;
olives 10 – 15 pcs., fresh herbs.

Cut the tomatoes into small cubes, olives into rings, chop the herbs, squeeze out the garlic.
The ingredients are combined and seasoned with sour cream. If necessary, the mass can be lightly salted and peppered.
The stuffed fruits are cooled, then cut and served.

Appetizer with ham

The following ingredients will be required:

2 large peppers;
200 g cheese;
garlic – 3-4 medium-sized cloves;
ham – 200 g, dressing sauce – mayonnaise.

Grind the cheese on a grater, cut the ham into small cubes or strips.
Mix everything, squeeze out the garlic and season with sauce.
The fruits are stuffed, cooled and served cut into rings.

Fascinating fact! The vegetable is native to the South American continent. The name bell pepper is widespread in the area of the former USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also the Soviet Union - a state that existed from 1922 to 1991 in Europe and Asia) . This is due to the fact that it was first imported into our country from Bulgaria.

Hot snacks

Bell peppers with cheese and garlic make excellent hot appetizers that can be eaten as independent dishes.

One option is baked fruit halves. To make 4 servings you will need:

2 peppers;
100 g hard cheese;
2 processed cheese;
a couple of cloves of garlic;
2 medium tomatoes;
mayonnaise – 2-3 spoons.

Peppers stuffed with cheese

Ingredients

Bell pepper – 4 pcs

Hard cheese – 100 g

Dill and parsley – 20 g

Garlic – 1 clove

Ground dark pepper – 1 pinch

Thyme – 4 sprigs

74 kcal
30 min.
30 min.

Photo of the finished dish

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Peppers stuffed with cheese are a delicious, fiery appetizer that can be quickly prepared in the oven before guests arrive. It won’t take much time, and few ingredients are needed for this dish.

This dish is portioned, the ingredients must be taken at the rate of 1 pepper (2 halves) per serving, in this case, if you are preparing this dish as a roast appetizer.

If peppers stuffed with cheese are your main dish, then 2 bell peppers per serving will come in handy. You can take any cheese, the main thing is that it melts perfectly, you can also use a mixture of different cheeses. You can also enrich and vary this dish by adding different spices.

IMPORTANT: For this dish, it is better to use reddish, yellowish or orange bell peppers. During the cooking process in the oven, greenish peppers lose their color and look completely unfestive on a festive table. It is clear that the color of the pepper does not affect its taste. Regarding the shape of the pepper, it doesn’t matter which one will do.

Cut the bell pepper into halves lengthwise. For beauty and convenience when eating the finished dish, leave the tail on the pepper. We clean the pepper halves from the internal partitions and seeds.

Let's prepare the filling for the peppers. For the inside, it is better to use spicy, sharp cheeses. I use two types of cheese: Cheddar and Parmesan.

Grate the cheeses on a medium grater and place in a bowl.

Chop the parsley and dill very finely and add the greens to the cheese. Pass the garlic through a press. Mix all the inside ingredients well. We taste the filling for salt, do not forget that cheeses are usually salted. Add a little dark ground pepper. At this step, you can add your favorite spices to the filling.

Peppers stuffed with melted cheese - looks great on any festive table

Peppers stuffed with melted cheese are a very popular cool appetizer. This dish looks great on any festive table, besides it is very tasty and easy to make. You can purchase all the products for it every year in any hypermarket or market. The ingredients you will need are: actually the sweet pepper itself, processed cheese, butter, garlic, parsley, freshly ground black pepper and salt.

To make the appetizer on the festive table look most elegant, take peppers of different colors - reddish, green, orange, yellow.

Ingredients:

Sweet pepper (medium size) – 6 pcs.
Processed cheese – 200 g.
Butter – 200 g.
Garlic – 3-4 cloves.
Parsley – 6 sprigs.
Freshly ground black pepper - to taste.
Salt - to taste.

Production time: 30 minutes. Cooling time: 30 minutes. Number of servings: 6-8.

Manufacturing:

1. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it softens at room temperature.
Place the oil in a bowl.

2. Add processed cheese cut into small cubes.

You can also grate the cheese, but before doing this you will need to put the cheese in the freezer for 20 minutes.

3. Using a fork, mash the cheese and butter until smooth.

You can replace the processed cheese with the same amount of feta cheese or Adyghe cheese.

4. Wash the parsley, dry it and finely chop it. Add to bowl.

Instead of parsley, you can take fragrant dill.

5. Wash the peppers, cut off the tops with stalks and remove the seed boxes along with the seeds. Separate the tops from the stalks and cut into small cubes. Place in a bowl.

6. Next, prepare the garlic. Peel the cloves and grate them using a garlic grater or pass them through a press. Add to other ingredients.

7. Season to taste with ground black pepper and salt.

8. Stir thoroughly.

9. Fill the pepper pods with the prepared entrails.

10. Place the stuffed peppers in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Peppers stuffed with melted cheese are ready to eat. Cut it into thick rings, place on a plate and serve.

Sweet peppers stuffed with cheese

Sweet peppers stuffed with cheese are a common vegetable dish in the Balkans, where the richness of vegetables and cheese is simply impressive. For example, bell peppers (chushki) are eaten in all forms and prepared using virtually all known methods: baked, fried, pickled, salted, dried, etc.

Lecho is a world-famous dish and homemade preparation, the most delicious especially with bell pepper. Most of the Balkan dishes recognized all over the world: yakhnia, chushki burek, and just snacks are made with pepper. At the same time, both sweet and spicy.

For all the uniqueness and diversity of Bulgarian cuisine, everything is true; it shows the obvious influence of the cuisines of neighboring countries. Especially Turkish cuisine. The close contact of the two cultures over hundreds of years has left an imprint that, mixed with local Bulgarian traditions, has become an invariable component of modern Bulgarian cuisine.

The so-called “variety” of vegetable pepper is bell pepper, a common fleshy fruit with thick and juicy walls, and various colors, from purple to reddish. At the same time, there are blue, and greenish, and orange, even snow-white and even almost dark.

I had to see how in fast food establishments peppers are baked in a special oven - chushkopek, here they are stuffed with the consistency of the freshest cheese with garlic and dill, and fried on a grid or frying pan. And after a few minutes - if you please, a unique snack. I believe that stuffed peppers are the most basic signature of Bulgarian cuisine. I understand dozens of variations of this dish and everything, I repeat - everything, amazed me at one fine moment. Peppers stuffed with cheese is one of these recipes.

Ingredients for peppers stuffed with cheese

Reddish sweet pepper 4-6 pcs
Cheese cheese 100 g
Garlic 3-4 cloves
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp. l.
Dill 5-6 sprigs
Dark pepper, savory, salt Spices
Dark pepper, salt, wine or balsamic vinegar, white wine, dill, garlic for marinade

How to cook peppers stuffed with cheese

It is better to take reddish bell peppers for stuffing with cheese, purely for aesthetic reasons. Snow-white cheese, greenish dill, reddish pepper - a good combination of colors, similar to caprese salad.

Bell pepper for stuffing

Bake the pepper and let it cool

Cheese cheese, dill and garlic for the inside

Grind cheese, dill and garlic

Stuff the peppers with cheese consistency

Fry stuffed peppers

Place the peppers in a clay or glass bowl

Pour the marinade with herbs over the peppers stuffed with cheese.

Peppers with cheese, herbs and garlic - an excellent appetizer

Peppers stuffed with cheese - bell peppers with cheese