* Stuffed Bell Pepper

These  stuffed bell peppers were one of my long awaited  dish.And one fine  day in my experimental spree, I opened my refrigerator  and gathered my  favorite  ingredients and  wanted to  make  the  stuffed bell peppers before these petite  bell peppers are  either  spoiled or  consumed  in any  other form(I always  have  10  different  ways  to  eat  bell pepper,love them).   Of course  I searched in Internet and   as  expected  I didn't find all the  ingredients at home the recipes  called for , then  decided just  listen to my  instinct  and  voila the resulting dish  won Shaan's heart. We  enjoyed these beauties , they were   wholesome dish. The stuffing are  upto the individual  taste .

here is  what  I used :

Ingredients :

1. Red or Orange or Yellow Bell peppers - 4(Smaller  ones  are good  for this dish)
2. Cumin Seeds                                        - 1/2  tsp
3. Onion(finely chopped)                          -  2 tb sp
4. Zucchini(Shredded)                              -  1/2 cup
5. Mozzarella Cheese(Shredded)              - 1/2 cup
6. Sweet corn                                           - 1 cup
7. Cooked Rice                                        - 1/2 cup
8. Garlic(Finely chopped)                         - 2 tb  sp
9. Portobello mushrooms(Chopped)          - 1  cup
10. Tomatoes(Chopped)                          - 3 tb sp
11. Green Onion(Chopped)                         - 3 tb sp
12. Garam masala                                       - 1/2 tsp
13. Salt                                                       - to taste

Procedure :

 1. Wash  and pat dry the  bell peppers.Chop a  thin  section of  the bell peppers so that they  sit comfortably

      while  baking.

 2. Cut the tops off the peppers and remove all the seeds from inside and  toss them on the pan  with a  tea

     spoon of  vegetable oil for  3-4  minutes and  keep them in aside  in the baking dish.

3.  Next  step is to prepare the  stuffing. The Stuffing  has  as may options  as you can think  of, you can do 

     with  meat or  vegetables.Here  I tried  with all the veggies.

4. Start with a  a table  spoon  of  vegetable  oil in a  pan, splutter cumin seeds then  add chopped onions. 

    Once Onions are  soft add Shredded Zucchini.Cook it  for  a minute then  add the chopped tomatoes and 

    Mushrooms.

5. Cook them for  5 minutes add garlic, then  add the shredded mozzarella,sweet corn and  cooked rice.

    Mix  in  and cook for  another 2 minutes. then  add  the garam masala  and  chopped  green onions to the

   mixture and  the stuffing is ready.

6. Now  stuff the  bell peppers, after the peppers are full, put the tops back on.

7. Cover the entire baking dish with aluminum foil and throw the dish into the over for 30 minutes in to 

   350F Preheated oven  .

8. Remove the foil and cook for an additional 10 minutes.

                             Make sure the peppers are tender, but not falling apart.

Thanks  for  visiting and  I would  love to hear  from you  if you liked your  stay here.

Happy cooking and  cheers. 

* Stuffed Mushroom

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                       Stuffed Mushroom is  one great finger food to serve for  any cocktail parties. It is tastes awesome and is good if you  have some vegetarian guests around. One evening I just  mixed all the  ingredients  together which I  love such as bell peppers,celery(because of the  health benefits I love to add this wherever I can specially my husband doesn't eat celery as such  so I try to  disguise it as much as possible and strangely he loves them :) ),Mozzarella cheese,garlic...etc and it came out real good.Got a   great review from my extremely choosy  husband.And we love to eat each mushroom in a  bite so I specially love the smaller ones.

Here goes the recipe:

 For this recipe all the  veggies are  finely chopped, so that  you get each veggie in  each bite which makes it very flavourful.

Ingredients:

1. Button mushrooms - 15 nos

2. Celery                    - 1 tb sp(finely chopped )

3. Garlic                     - 1 tb sp(finely chopped)

4. Green Bell Pepper - 2 tb sp (finely chopped)

5. Orange bell pepper - 2 tb sp (finely chopped)

6. Onion                     -4 tb sp (finely chopped )

7. Mozzarella cheese   - 1/2 cup(Shredded)

8. Parmesan cheese     - few pinches

9. Olive oil                  - 1.5 t sp

10. Dry Oregano          -1/2 tsp(optional)

11. Salt                         - to taste

Procedure :

1. Clean and remove the  stem from the mushrooms.Keep the stem for using them in for  stuffing.

2. Chop the stem  finely and keep  all the finely veggies and  preheat the oven.

3. Now  heat the pan and add 1/ t sp  Olive oil and place the de-stemmed mushrooms on the  hot pan for 3- 

    4  minutes.Take them  out  and keep aside.

4. Add the rest 1 t sp  Olive oil to the pan and throw in the onion,then celery's , when these ingredients

  are little cooked(not browned) add the chopped mushroom stalks.When Mushrooms are cooked for

  about  3 minutes,,add garlic and  finally add the bell peppers at the end so that they remain crunchy.

5. Finally add 2 tb sp grated mozzarella cheese and turn off the heat.Give   it a quick  mix and now the 

    stuffing is ready.

6. Take  the Mushrooms and  fill in the Stuffing.(Here if you divide the  stuffing as per your number of 

     mushrooms it will be  easy )

7. Now  these mushrooms go to the pre heated oven for 10 minutes on 350 degree Celsius.After 10 minutes

    take  them out and sprinkle some mozzarella cheese and  Parmesan cheese  on top of each

    mushroom.And then  goes back to oven for  5 more minutes in broil mode.

8. Now the tasty stuffed mushrooms are ready to serve.

The beauty of this dish is the stuffing options are numerous and just go by your  instinct you will find something very new with  every other option.

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