am goin to make Green Peppers, Stuffed. i plan to cook the stuffed peppers in microwave. do i need to add water/oil to microwave dish. what should be the temp setting of microwave

Hello Sneha

The simple answer to your question is that I don't know. I don't like 'cooking' food in microwave, it never tastes the same. Green peppers cook so quickly in a pan or kadhai that it is hardly worth using a microwave. You can steam the partly, say for 5 minutes, in a microwave and then cook them in a kadhai. this will reduce cooking time.

Mamta

Hi, i did stuffed peppers the other night, red ones, i just par boiled them for about 5 minutes, stuffed them, then cooked in the oven for about 10 - 15 mins, they were delicious, my oh demolished his.

i do a Chinese stuffed pepper dish, with black bean sauce added. I can see the advantage of par-boiling, but what I do is put the stuffed peppers face-down in oil and then add a little water and cover the frying pan. That creates a steaming effect. I need a slow cook for this, since the stuffing is pork and Chinese mushrooms. Given the stuffing, I don't want par-boiling (which I think really means pre-boiling).

So it depends on what you have in the stuffing.

Phil

By the way, stuffed peppers, and stuffed vegetables in general, are a good way of dealing with a mixed bunch of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dinner guests: you can do one kind of stuffing for one lot os guests, and a different one, containing meat, for the others. That way, everyone has a sense of hav ing 'the same dish', while sticking to their preferences.

I'm not a vegetarian, but one has to cater for vegetarian friends. This is a good way of doing that.

Phil

I tried stuffed green peppers last night for dinner. wow it was very yummy dish. didnt preboil the peppers. i just stuffed raw peppers nd cooked for 10 minutes in a pan.

once agn thanks to Mamta

Please send me recipe for kheema stuffed capsicum. Thanks, Clara

Make Keema, making sure that it is not runny, quite dry, and stuff your peppers with it. Cook in a wok/kadhai or oven as for vegetable stuffed peppers. Some people add a little bit of rice, to the stuffing, which makes it more filling.

I will get around to writing this recipe one day, may be later today. Otherwise it will have to wait for a while!

Mamta