Do you like stuffed peppers? Then try a slightly modified cooking option! The "highlight" of this recipe is the use of millet instead of the usual rice for such a dish, as well as Greek sauce instead of tomato.
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You will need
- - 4 things. sweet red ("Bulgarian") pepper;
- - carrots (1 pc. medium size);
- - onions (1-2 pcs. medium size);
- - 2 tsp soy sauce;
- - 100 g of millet;
- - 280 g (ml) of water for cooking cereals;
- - 20 g of butter;
- - 1-2 pcs. ground tomatoes;
- - unrefined sunflower oil for frying
- For the sauce:
- - Fresh cucumber (1 pc.);
- - 180-200 g of thick yogurt without additives and sugar (better from cream, but also suitable from milk);
- - 1-2 cloves of garlic;
- - 2 tbsp olive oil;
- - 1 tbsp vinegar (3-6%) or lemon juice;
- - several branches of basil;
- - other herbs - optional;
- - salt, black and / or allspice - to taste.
Instruction manual
1
Wash the cucumber, drain. Peel and grate on a fine grater. Crush the garlic with a knife and chop finely. Wash greens, drain and chop finely.
2
Combine cucumber, garlic, herbs, yogurt, olive oil, vinegar (lemon juice). Salt, pepper, mix again. Put in the refrigerator.
3
Sort the cereals, pour boiling water (in sufficient quantity) and leave for one hour. This is necessary for swelling and removing bitterness.
4
Drain the liquid, put the groats in the pan. Pour fresh water, bring to a boil, salt and cook until almost cooked (about 20 minutes). Cool.
5
Wash the carrots, peel and grate. Peel and finely chop the onion. Pour oil, soy sauce into the pan, warm well. Put the prepared vegetables, lightly add salt and fry until tender over low heat. Cool. Mix with millet porridge.
6
Wash the pepper, carefully cut off the top with the stalk - you can make a “lid” out of it. Remove the seeds. Dip in a pot of boiling water for a few seconds and peel off. Sauté the peppers in a pan with butter.
7
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Fill the peppers with porridge with vegetables, cover and place on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Place the pan in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
8
Wash the tomatoes, drain, cut into slices about 0.8-1 cm thick. Put in a pan and lightly fry over high heat.
9
Remove the peppers from the oven, put on plates. Put the fried tomatoes on top, cover with "lids". Serve the Greek sauce separately.
note
Instead of millet, you can cook this dish with bulgur. Bulgur is a cereal from durum wheat, which is chopped wheat grains dried in the sun.
Useful advice
You can add minced meat to the dish. The meat can be any according to your desire - lamb, pork, beef, veal, poultry or a combination of several species.