In this light, summery, Italian-inspired supper we’ve stuffed tender red peppers with a moreish mixture of fluffy rice, buttery pine nuts, walnuts and a bit of zip of aromatic herbs.
HOT PEPPER WITH NUTS STUFFING
Ingredients for 4 people:
7 hot peppers SIPO
600 ml water
300 ml rice vinegar
30 gr pine nuts
30 gr walnuts
30 gr blanched almonds
30 gr breadcrumbs
10 gr Nutritional yeast
20 gr mixed aromatic herbs (thyme, marjoram, mint, sage, rosemary)
Extra-virgin olive oil
Salt
White pepper
Method:
Wash the peppers; remove the stalk and the seeds and rinse. In a pot, bring to a boil water and rice vinegar, when boiling cook the pepper for about 4 minutes. Drain them and place upside down on absorbent paper and leave to cool. Place in a mixer the aromatic herbs and the nuts and blend until finely chopped, then put the mix in a bowl and add breadcrumbs, nutritional yeast, oil, salt and pepper. Fill the drained peppers with the mixture, drizzle oil on them and place on a baking tin, then cook at 180°C for 30 minutes. Serve hot or warm with some mint leaves.