Peppers stuffed with meat and rice for the winter for freezing

A detailed recipe with step-by-step photos will tell you how to stuff peppers with meat and rice for freezing for future use.

How to Prepare Stuffed Peppers with Meat and Rice for the Freezer

To prepare this preparation we will need 2 kilograms of sweet pepper. The first thing to do is rinse the pods well under running water. Then, cut out the stalk and carefully remove all the seeds and internal veins. We rinse the “cups” of peppers again, trying to remove the remaining seeds with a stream of water.

Now, we need to blanch the peppers. This is done to make them softer. Such peppers can be filled with minced meat much more densely and it will not crack.

To blanch, pour water into a large saucepan and bring it to a boil. Place the pods in boiling water and wait for the water to boil again. In principle, the peppers can be taken out immediately after this. This time is quite enough for such processing.Place them in a colander and let cool.

After cooling, the color of the peppers will become slightly less bright, and the pods themselves will become slightly translucent. You can even see this difference in the photo.

Let's start with rice. In principle, you can use any rice, but I prefer to use long grain rice for stuffing. Rice (150 grams) needs to be washed in water.

Then put it in 500 milliliters of boiling water and cook for no more than 5 minutes.

Place the undercooked rice in a colander and leave to cool. How cooked the grains should be can be seen in the photo.

Next, prepare the minced meat.

Peel onions (300 grams) and cut into large pieces. We grind lean pork (1 kilogram) through a meat grinder together with onions. Add egg, salt, ground black pepper and half-cooked rice to the resulting minced meat. Mix.

How to freeze stuffed peppers with meat and rice

By this time, the sweet pepper pods have cooled down and can now be stuffed. We stuff them with minced meat as tightly as possible and place them on a flat surface on which the initial freezing will take place.

It is convenient to use a cutting board for this. Place the semi-finished products in the freezer for about a day.

After the minced meat has set, the stuffed peppers are transferred to bags for further storage and put back in the freezer. They can be stored in the same form as in the photo for up to 6 months.

I hope that this step-by-step recipe will help you prepare stuffed peppers for the winter and that your freezer will always have a tasty and proven semi-finished product for a delicious dish.

At any time you need, further preparation is very simple: you just need to put frozen stuffed peppers in a frying pan, cover with vegetables with tomato or just tomato, pour in broth, and simmer for 1 hour. Bon appetit!