Due to the bright rich taste and aroma, bell pepper is widely used in cooking.
It is added to both hot first and second courses, and to salads, snacks: there are many recipes. One of the most appetizing combinations is pork with bell pepper, and we’ll talk about dishes with these two main ingredients today.
Pork with bell pepper - general principles of cooking
Bell pepper has a pleasant piquant taste with sweet notes, while perfectly complements and sets off the taste of pork. This is a wonderful light side dish, which not only does not weigh down the meat dish, but also reduces its calorie content.
For many, the first thing that comes to mind when they say “pork and bell pepper” is stuffed peppers. Of course, this dish is tasty, but it is not the only thing that can be prepared from these two products, so bell pepper is good in that it can be subjected to any heat treatment: frying, baking, cooking, and in tandem with pork, the taste of the prepared dish will be truly delicious .
1. Pork with bell pepper: roast recipe
Ingredients:
• 200 grams of pork pulp;
• onion;
• 3 potatoes;
• carrot;
• bell pepper;
• 150 milliliters of tomato sauce;
• a pair of bay leaves;
• Provencal herbs;
• tomato sauce;
• salt;
• black pepper;
• sunflower oil.
Cooking:
1. Vegetable oil is poured into the pan and set on fire.
2. Pork is cut and spread in hot vegetable oil. Fry until golden brown.
3. Onions and carrots peel, cut. Fried with pork.
4. Add chopped potatoes.
5. Glove, salt. Add spicy spices, bay leaf.
6. Cover. Cook about fifteen minutes.
7. Bell peppers are washed, peeled, cut and mixed with the rest of the ingredients. Cook for 15 minutes.
8. Tomato sauce is poured into the roast, mixed well.
9. The fire is turned off after a few minutes, the finished dish is insisted before serving under the lid for 5-6 minutes.
2. Braised pork with bell pepper
Ingredients:
• 800 grams of pork;
• 800 grams of tomatoes in their own juice;
• 500 grams of sweet bell pepper;
• onion;
• salt;
• ground black pepper.
Cooking:
1. Meat, onion, bell pepper gently chopped.
2. In a saucepan over high heat, heat the vegetable oil. In it, pork is fried until golden brown literally for 2-3 minutes.
3. The fried meat is temporarily transferred to a plate, the fire is reduced.
4. Onions are placed in the pan in the same oil. Fry it for about five minutes.
5. Add bell pepper, fry, stirring for another five minutes.
6. Add pork, mashed tomatoes and juice to the pan. Glove, salt.
7. Pour 250 milliliters of hot water.
8. Bring to a boiling state over high heat.
9. The flame is reduced to a minimum. Cover the pan with a lid. Stew pork with bell pepper until soft for about an hour.
3. Pork with bell pepper in the oven
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of pork;
• 50 grams of cheese;
• bell pepper;
• half a teaspoon of table salt;
• a quarter of a teaspoon of black pepper;
• onion.
Cooking:
1. For cooking, take pieces of pork, taking into account the number of servings. The weight of each piece should be about 100 grams. They washed the pork, let it dry, and beat it with a hammer.
2. Peppers are washed, wiped dry.
3. Small onions are cut in half rings.
4. Bell pepper cut into thin slices.
5. Heat over a frying pan over high heat. Slices of pork are fried on it for a couple of minutes on each side. The meat is salted, pepper.
6. Sliced onions are spread on a baking sheet, fried pieces of pork on it. Paprika is placed on the meat, salted. The last layer is a plate of hard cheese.
7. Pork is baked in the oven over medium heat for a little over half an hour.
4. Pork with bell pepper in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• 500 grams of pork pulp;
• 250 grams of bell peppers;
• 100 grams of hard cheese;
• onion;
• 25 grams of butter;
• salt;
• ground pepper;
• parsley.
Cooking:
1. Onions are peeled, washed and finely chopped.
2. In the slow cooker, turn on the "Frying" mode. Put butter in the bowl. Chopped onion fried for 5-10 minutes.
3. Peppers, peeled, washed, cut into thin strips.
4. Hard cheese on a coarse grater.
5. The pork pulp is washed, dried, cut into pieces. The meat is placed in a multicooker bowl over the fried onions, salted, and pepper. Bell pepper and grated cheese are added to it.
6. Set the "Baking" mode. For cooking take 45-50 minutes.
7. Before serving, sprinkle pork with fresh parsley.
5. Pork with bell peppers and nuts in soy sauce
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of pork neck;
• 150 grams of chicken breast fillet;
• 150 grams of dark chicken meat (drumstick or thigh);
• two red bell peppers of large sizes;
• one large yellow pepper;
• 3-4 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• a tablespoon of sugar;
• vegetable oil;
• hazelnuts.
Cooking:
1. All meat is pre-thawed. Then cut across the fibers in thin pieces.
2. The pan with vegetable oil is heated very much.
3. First, fry the nuts.
4. The meat is fried after hazelnuts in small portions for a couple of minutes on each side.
5. Bell pepper is cut into large pieces or thin strips. Fry in the same pan separately from meat for several minutes.
6. Add pork, chicken, nuts, soy sauce, sugar to pepper. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed. The pan is covered with a lid.
7. Pre-fried meat with bell pepper and nuts stew for a couple of minutes.
6. Pork with bell pepper: stew recipe
Ingredients:
• 500 grams of pork;
• one large bell pepper;
• 2 medium-sized tomatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 2 tablespoons of tomato paste;
• a handful of green peas;
• salt.
Cooking:
1. The meat of previously thawed and thoroughly washed pork is cut into small pieces.
2. Onions are crushed and fried in vegetable oil. Transfer to another container.
3. The prepared pork is slightly fried in the same oil.
4. Add onion to the meat.
5. Bell pepper cut into thin strips. Add to meat with onions.
6. Wash, peel and cut the tomatoes. Spread to the rest of the ingredients.
7. Mix the ingredients with frozen or fresh green peas.
8. Salt.
9. Add tomato paste, some water.
10. Stew until fully cooked.
7. Pork with bell pepper: noodle recipe
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of pork;
• 50 milliliters of soy sauce;
• a teaspoon of oyster sauce;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• one carrot;
• 100 grams of noodles;
• onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• one Bulgarian red and green pepper;
• celery stalk;
• 60 grams of white cabbage;
• 3 branches of cilantro;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking:
1. The meat is cut into small pieces. Stack in a bowl.
2. Pour in soy sauce, oyster sauce. The ingredients are thoroughly mixed. The container is closed with a lid and refrigerated overnight.
3. Cut all the vegetables (bell peppers, onions, cabbage, carrots), boil in slightly salted water until half cooked, recline in a colander.
4. Heat the pan with vegetable oil. Pork is fried over high heat until golden brown.
5. Add onion to the meat. Stew, stirring, for about 1-2 minutes.
6. Add vegetables.
7. Additionally pour both types of sauce (soy and oyster), mix. Stew for 5 minutes.
8. Add noodles, another tablespoon of soy sauce. Mixed. Stew a couple of minutes.
9. The finished dish is sprinkled with fresh herbs.
8. Pork with bell pepper: soup recipe
Ingredients:
• two tomatoes;
• three potatoes;
• sweet pepper;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• carrot;
• three liters of water;
• zira, salt, a mixture of peppers;
• vegetable oil;
• pork ribs;
• onion;
• greenery.
Cooking:
1. The pork ribs are separated, simultaneously cutting off excess fat.
2. Fry the meat in hot oil in a cauldron until golden.
3. Onions are chopped, carrots are rubbed, peppers are cut into strips.
4. Spread all prepared vegetables for pork, fry everything together, stirring constantly, 2-4 minutes until softened.
5. Add chopped potatoes and tomatoes. Fry for 2 minutes.
6. Pour boiling water. After boiling, season with spices and salt.
7. They simmer pork with bell pepper for 30 minutes, after which garlic squeezed through a press is introduced.
8. Remove the soup from the fire, pour on plates, decorate with herbs.
Pork with bell pepper - tips and tricks
• You can easily and quickly cook the simplest roast with just two ingredients with spices: fry the pork pieces to a blush in a frying pan, transfer to a pot, put pepper cut into thick rings on top, spice everything to taste, pour a little water, simmer at 180 column 40 minutes.
• Any dish will turn out more colorful if you use peppers of different colors.
• The meaty varieties of pepper are sweeter, and those with thin flesh are specifically bitter.
• If you are making pork and bell pepper soup, do not forget to remove the foam formed during cooking, so the broth will turn out beautiful and the dish will be delicious.
• Do not be afraid of experiments, add new ingredients, spices, herbs to the dishes: both pork and pepper go well with almost any product.
