Bell pepper filled with a slightly spicy minced meat mixture! Nice variation to your standard meat dishes. Stay tuned as the veggie edition is also coming your way.
Ingredients for 2 pers.:
- 2 bell peppers
- 150 gr minced meat
- 1 can tomato paste
- 100 gr mushrooms
- 200 gr spinach
- 100 gr ricotta cheese
- fresh herbs
- ½ lemon
- ½ red onion
- olive oil
- taco seasoning
- salt and pepper
How to prepare it:
Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees. Cut the mushrooms into thin slices. Peel and fine slice the onion. Chop the herbs.
Put a frying pan on the stove, add a bit of oil and fritter the onion and the mushrooms. Add the minced meat after approx. 5 min together with half of the fresh herbs. Heat up the stove and fry the mixture for another 5 min. Chop the spinach. Add the spinach, lemon juice from ½ lemon, the taco herbs and the tomato paste. Stir well and simmer for about 5 min.
Cut the top of the bell pepper. Remove the seeds. Poor a bit of olive oil into a oven dish and place the bell pepper on top. Fill the bell pepper with the minced meat mixture.
Grate the skin of the lemon. Add a table spoon of ricotta on top of the bell pepper. Sprinkle some salt and pepper, the remaining fresh herbs and the lemon grate on top. Put the top of the bell pepper back and place the bell peppers in the oven for 20 min.
In the meantime you can fry the pine nuts.
Take the bell pepper out of the oven and garnish the plate with some of the minced meat mixture and the pine nuts.
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