I hate to disappoint you, but this is NOT a recipe for mini-peppers stuffed with vegetarians.
Charlie loves stuffed peppers, and I found these tri-colored mini-peppers at the store, so I was inspired to make this dish. It’s a bit fiddly for me, which should make it just about right for anybody else.
Vegetarian Stuffed Mini-Peppers
- mini-peppers
- vegetarian taco filling (We like Fantastic World Foods)
- cooked rice
- sliced carrots
- sliced broccoli stems
YES, SLICED BROCCOLI STEMS! You cut off the tough outer part, cut the stem into two semi-circles, and slice them thinly.
Okay.
- Cut the peppers lengthways down to the cap but not through the cap. NOT through the cap! Okay, never mind. Put that one aside and use it for something else. Now do it the way I told you. Okay. Take out any seeds. If you use colored mini-peppers, there won’t be many seeds. Rub the outside of the peppers with olive oil and stuff them with prepared taco mix. If you do cheese, put some cheese in there, too. Close the peppers. Bake the peppers at 350 F for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, boil the carrots and broccoli in salted water until tender.
- Also cook the rice.
If there’s one culinary affectation I hate more than any other, it’s “plate the food.” So don’t “plate the food.” Put the food on a plate. I put a big lump of rice in a soup dish, then arranged the peppers atop it, with some extra taco mix, and put the carrots and broccoli around the edge for, as they say, a colorful presentation.
Tasted good, too.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A phrase your character detests is used repeatedly by someone your character can’t say anything to about it.
MA
Jane
April 24, 2013 at 8:45amSounds tasty. I think I might try it. Without the vegetarian innards; I’m going for some sausage!
Thinking about irritating phrases one is helpless to refute is too much like work. I mean, where I used to work π
Marian Allen
April 24, 2013 at 9:33amI hear ya about the phrases, girl. Sausage sounds STELLAR in this dish! Go for it!
Janice Heck
April 25, 2013 at 10:56pmThis sounds delish. I love those little peppers. Stuffing them sounds even better. Good appetizer.
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Marian Allen
April 26, 2013 at 9:53amWe’re going to try to grow some red ones this year. Wish us luck! π
Joy
April 26, 2013 at 8:17pmHealthy foods all over the internet realm! So cool and mouth-watering all at the same time. Way to go for a nice recipe, Marian! π
Marian Allen
April 26, 2013 at 9:09pmThank you, Joy! This was actually pretty easy, just fiddly. π
Emilia
April 28, 2013 at 9:26amWow! Really good looking meal. Thank you for sharing this wonderful dish, I will definitely try this, maybe be a vegan from now on.
Marian Allen
April 28, 2013 at 9:50amThank YOU, Emilia. I post so much vegan and vegetarian food, I feel a bit phony, since I’m an omnivore. We eat mostly vegetarian here at home, and I’m always exploring dietary-limitation dishes for various friends and relatives who are vegan or lactose intolerant or gluten intolerant. Those dishes turn out to be so pretty and so delicious, I tend to favor them on the blog. π
Mike Carlson
April 29, 2013 at 5:08amThis looks interesting to prepare, though I am not so fond of chili stuffed.
Marian Allen
April 29, 2013 at 8:09amOh, I wouldn’t deliberately eat a stuffed chili pepper! These are little baby sweet peppers. π
Ruth
April 15, 2015 at 4:48pmI like your idea on stuffed peppers, but these kind of peppers are a little to hot. i am used to bell peppers that aren’t so hot.
Marian Allen
April 15, 2015 at 5:03pmOh, I’m with you, Ruth, and these mini peppers are not hot at all. They’re mini bells. π
Chili Alex
August 11, 2016 at 6:18amYummy! Thanks fo the recipe. Will give it a try π
The Mini Bells are not hot at all, that’s right.
I have a lot of them in the garden this year.
Just waiting for them to get ripe.
Will try the recipe with some hot chili peppers too π
Marian Allen
August 11, 2016 at 8:07amSay, you’re just the guy I want to talk to! At a Thai restaurant, I had a dish with a heat level of 1 (I thought that meant no heat, but they actually have a zero). The heat nearly knocked my eyeballs out, but then it faded and just left a kind of gustatory euphoria. Every bite went BAM! mmmmmmm…. Other hot stuff I’ve eaten kept on burning and hurting. Any idea what kind of pepper or spice would hit hard and then ease into bliss?
Chili Alex
August 11, 2016 at 10:47amAllright! π
At the most Thai restaurants the heat scale is only from 0 (no heat), 1 and 2(both moderate to good heat) to 3 (very hot) instead of the usual 0 to 10+++ scoville scale. I guess they used a very hot thai pepper (there are a lot of varieties called so). They are meassured at a 9 on the usual scale and are not so long lasting. What kind of hot peppers do you like? Than I could recommend you a pepper variety to use I think π
Marian Allen
August 11, 2016 at 12:54pmI don’t like ANY hot pepper! I mean, I sprinkle Old Bay seasoning on some stuff, and I use a little store-bought chili powder in my chili, but my husband can’t tolerate much of any heat, and I’m not much better. I just really liked that burst and ease.
Chili Alex
August 12, 2016 at 6:25amOh okay π
How long was that burst? Just a few seconds?
Maybe we can find out which type of pepper they used.
At the moment I think it was some kind of thai pepper.
There are a lot of variations in heat and they are traditionally used in the Thai cuisine.
Marian Allen
August 12, 2016 at 8:59amYes, Alex, it was just a few seconds. It was like, “WOW! Oh! Mmmmm!”