Italian stuffed with pepper cheese, herbs and nuts This dish has surpassed all expectations. A perfect combination of cheese, thyme, fried almonds, sweet and sour pepper with light notes of olive oil and crispy crumb will not leave anyone indifferent. You can safely prepare a double portion, given that the ingredients are given on 4 stuffed peppers. It is desirable to use the Cheddar cheese, because it has a rich cheese flavor and friable structure. An exquisite and unforgettable dish will take only 30 minutes of your time, taking into account the cleansing of almonds and the pickling of pepper. If you have canned whole pepper boldly take it, it will greatly shorten the cooking time.
Ingredients:- Bread white 150 g
- Cheddar cheese 50g
- Thyme (Thyme) fresh 7 g
- Almond 50 g
- Olive oil 4 tbsp. l.
- Salt 3 tsp.
- Pepper black ground 2 pinch
- Apple vinegar 1 tbsp. l.
- Sweet pepper 4 pcs.
- Bay leaf 2 pcs.
- Sugar 1 tbsp. l.
- Boiled water 1 l
- Step 1 To prepare the dish, you will need sweet pepper, white bread, thyme, Cheddar cheese, almonds, olive oil, salt, sugar, black pepper and vinegar.
- Step 2 Pepper and clean from pits and core.
- Step 3 Now you need to pickle pepper. To do this, pour it for 3 minutes with boiling water, and then rinse under cold water for about a minute.
- Step 4 Boil the marinade. To do this, boil 1 liter of water and add a tablespoon of salt, sugar, a teaspoon of vinegar, a bay leaf, a pinch of black pepper.
- Step 5 Pour marinade pepper and leave for 10 minutes, adding a tablespoon of olive oil. Then the brine must be drained.
- Step 6 While the pepper marinated to prepare almonds: peel and dry in a pan.
- Step 7 In the blender, grind the bread and almonds.
- Step 8 Then add the cheese, thyme, salt, pepper and grind.
- Step 9 In a cheese-and-grass mixture add a tablespoon of olive oil, a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and mix.
- Step 10 Fill up each pepper and put into a baking dish.
- Step 11 Sprinkle the remaining stuffing on top, sprinkle with olive oil (so that the crumbs are soaked and baked). Then decorate with a couple of twigs of fresh thyme and send to a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Step 12 Baked peppers can be served both hot and cold with potatoes, rice, pasta or as an independent dish.