Stuffed Bell Peppers

Ingredients

Bell Peppers – 4 nos (tops cut and seeds removed)

Minced beef/mutton – 500 gm

Rice – ½ cup, cooked

Onion – 1 big

Garlic – 4 nos, chopped

Salt – as required

Black Pepper Powder – 1 teaspoon

Chilly flakes – ½ teaspoon

Olive Oil – 2 table spoons

Tomato Sauce – 2 table spoons

Tomato Paste – 2 table spoons

Philadelphia Cream Cheese – 3 table spoons

Mozzarella Cheese – grated, for topping

Water

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 220°C.

Boil some water with salt in a large pot and add in the bell peppers.

Cook until the peppers are tender. Take out carefully and keep the bell peppers aside.

Add olive oil in a pan and saute garlic and onions. Now add the minced meat. Add salt and pepper powder. Now add in the tomato paste and tomato sauce. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Sprinkle chilly flakes to it and combine well. Add in the cooked rice and mix well. Add the cream cheese and off the fire. Stuff the bell peppers with this mixture and place in the baking tray. Bake it in the oven for 15 minutes.Take out the baking tray and top up the peppers with grated mozzarella cheese and bake for 10 more minutes.

Pineapple Pachadi / Onam Special

INGREDIENTS

Pineapple – 10 cubed pieces.

Black Grapes – 10 nos (Seedless)

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Water – 1 glass or as required to cook pineapple

Grated Coconut – ½ cup

Yogurt – ½ cup

Green Chillies – 3 nos

Cumin seeds – ½ teaspoon

Salt – as required

For seasoning

Oil – 1 tablespoon

Ghee – 1 teaspoon

Mustard seeds – ½ teaspoon

Dry Chilly – 3nos

Curry leaves – 1 sprig

METHOD

1.     Grind coconut, cumin seeds and green chillies with yogurt.

2.     Cook pineapple with turmeric powder in 1 glass of water.

3.     Add the ground mixture to the cooked pineapple.

4.     Add salt and cook in low flame for 5 minutes.

5.     Add in the grapes and mix well.

6.     Fry the seasoning ingredients and remove from the fire.

Notes

You can add sugar or jaggery if pineapple is not sweet enough.

Adding ghee will bring more taste to the curry.