Dietary meat stuffed peppers are an excellent main dish for those who watch their diet. In the second half of summer, you should definitely prepare peppers stuffed with the “correct” filling. You can also take care of yourself and prepare frozen semi-finished products. Even if you don’t have your own garden, peppers are inexpensive during the season, and there will be a lot of benefits from such a prudent act.

Stuffed peppers: all the secrets

Stuffed peppers proper nutrition somewhat different from usual. Recipes for the dietary option are perhaps even more varied and interesting than the classic ones.. Although, the set of ingredients is approximately the same - the peppers themselves, minced meat, cereals, vegetables and filling, if provided for in the recipe.

Here Basic rules for preparing low-calorie stuffed peppers:

1. it's better to make minced meat yourself, carefully cutting off the veins and fat layer. Turkey or chicken breast, lean veal and rabbit meat are suitable for the filling;
2. there is a cereal component different - instead of the usual white rice, it is better to use brown rice, or replace it with buckwheat, pearl barley or oatmeal. You can also use half-cooked quinoa, bulgur, millet and wheat porridge;
3. except minced meat and cereals, you can add a vegetable component. The most common recipes are with tomatoes, carrots, corn and zucchini; the use of a variety of greens such as cilantro, spinach and others is also encouraged;
4. for extinguishing will need filling- this can be tomato paste, sauce made from fresh blanched tomatoes, boneless broth cooked on chicken breast, sour cream filling or plain water. The last option is best used if you are going to serve peppers to guests and are not sure about their preferences.

Make the peppers vegetarian by replacing the minced meat with legumes - beans, mung beans or chickpeas. The beans need to be pre-soaked and cooked, add vegetables and tofu. The result is an unusual Lenten dish!

There are two ways to prepare peppers for the filling:

• make “cups” by cutting off the top of the pepper along with the stem and seeds;
• build “boats” by cutting the fruit lengthwise (the seeds, of course, need to be removed).

The first method is convenient for preparing peppers for the winter - stacked on top of each other, they will take up less space in the freezer. Some housewives use this life hack for preservation.

You can cook stuffed peppers in a slow cooker, in the oven or on the stove using a deep saucepan.

Peppers in a pan with beef and rice

This option is most similar to the classics familiar from childhood. But its calorie content is 1.5-2 times lower! And everything is easier to prepare.

Nutritional value per 100 g:

1. Calories: 60
2. Proteins: 6
3. Fats 0,5
4. Carbohydrates: 8

Products:

• large sweet pepper – 7 pcs.
• veal – 300 g
• boiled rice – 300 g
• onions – ½ pcs.
• tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
• water for diluting tomato paste - 1 cup.

Preparation:

Twist the veal into minced meat, stir it in a bowl with boiled rice (how to properly cook brown rice) and diced onion. Salt the minced meat.

Wash the peppers, remove stems and seeds. Stuff each pepper with minced meat and place the vegetables in a tall saucepan.

Dilute tomato paste with water. If you don’t have a homemade one, buy a natural one, there shouldn’t be anything extra in the composition! By the way, it will work great too! Brush the tops of the peppers with this mixture and pour the rest of the gravy into the pan to simmer the stuffed peppers. Don't forget about salt and spices.

Cover the pan with a lid and cook the peppers over medium heat for 40 minutes.

Serve by distributing the peppers on plates and pouring tomato sauce.

Appetizing peppers in a slow cooker

Diet stuffed peppers in a slow cooker are easy and quick to prepare. The neutral and unusual taste of bulgur will gently highlight the taste of the peppers themselves and the meat filling.

Nutritional value per 100 g:

1. Calories: 74
2. Proteins: 6,3
3. Fats 2
4. Carbohydrates: 7,8

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup bulgur
• 8 medium peppers
• 400 g minced chicken breast
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 2 cloves garlic
• salt, spices, herbs
• 5-6 medium ripe tomatoes
• 25 ml vegetable oil

Preparation step by step:

1. Prepare the peppers by making “cups” out of them, clean the seeds from the inside of the pieces.
2. Rinse the bulgur in running water, pour boiling water in a 1:1 ratio. Allow to swell for 15 minutes. We must bring it to half-ready.
3. Peel the onions and carrots. Chop the onion and grate the carrots on a fine grater. Chop the greens and pass the garlic through a press.
4. Add vegetables, garlic, herbs and bulgur to the minced meat, season, salt, mix well.
5. Stuff the peppers.
6. Blanch the tomatoes. To do this, make cross-shaped cuts on the fruit, put them in boiling and then cold water, and remove the skin. Grate the pulp or “punch” it with a blender.
7. Grease the bottom of the multicooker bowl with vegetable oil and lay out the pieces. Set the “Bake” mode for 40-50 minutes. After 5 minutes, turn the peppers over so they brown evenly. Another 5 minutes later, add tomato puree, add salt and wait for the signal to finish cooking. Do not open the lid for another 10 minutes.

PP recipe for the oven

Try baking the peppers in the oven with minced meat without using filling - the dish will not lose its taste.

Nutritional value per 100 g:

1. Calories: 89
2. Proteins: 8,7
3. Fats 2,3
4. Carbohydrates: 8,2

We will need:

• 0.5 tbsp pearl barley
• 6 medium sized peppers
• 500 g minced turkey breast or beef
• 1 carrot
• spices and salt
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• green
• any low-fat hard cheese - 100 g

Cooking method:

1. Boil pearl barley until cooked, let cool slightly. If you don't know how to do this, read.
2. Prepare the peppers. Cut the fruit lengthwise, remove the seeds and the inside of the stalk.
3. Peel the onion and carrots. Chop the onion and grate the carrots. Chop the garlic, wash and chop the greens.
4. In a large bowl, mix minced meat, boiled pearl barley, vegetables, herbs and garlic.
5. Fill the “boats” with filling.
6. Line a baking sheet or heat-resistant pan with parchment (silicone mat) and place the peppers. Bake in a hot oven for 30-40 minutes.
7. Grate the cheese, sprinkle on the prepared peppers and place in the oven for another 5 minutes.

Life hacks from experienced pp specialists

Any recipe for dietary stuffed peppers is good for its flexibility - the ingredients are interchangeable, they can be supplemented with unusual options like feta cheese, mushrooms, eggplant and cottage cheese.

Stuffed peppers can and should be frozen for future use, preferably raw, but you can also freeze them already cooked:

• To prepare raw semi-finished products, the preparations need to be laid out in the freezer so that they do not touch. Within a couple of hours, the peppers will freeze and harden, after which they can be placed in bags or containers;
• the finished dish must first be cooled in the refrigerator, and then portioned into containers and frozen;
• If desired, you can freeze the gravy separately to save time during cooking.

Such preparations are stored in the freezer for no more than six months, but they usually run out much earlier than this.

The dish is served in a pp version with a light vegetable side dish or without it at all.

Recipe video without rice

If carbohydrates don’t fit into your diet, prepare protein stuffed peppers with meat and mushrooms. Of course, I don’t really like the frying process - it’s better to simmer with a little water in a non-stick frying pan. But the idea is great!

Diet food is gaining more and more fans around the world. This is not surprising, since such a diet is intended to improve the health of the body. Products that speed up the process of treating certain diseases, help prevent various diseases, and also provide invaluable assistance in losing weight.

General nutrition rules

Most options for rational preventative or health-improving diets have nothing in common. The diet must contain enough calories for the normal functioning of the body.

In addition, you must adhere to a few simple rules:

1. Follow your diet. It is an integral part of any diet - those losing weight should eat at a set time or at specified intervals.
2. Food must be chewed thoroughly. In this case, the feeling of fullness appears earlier, and nutrients are absorbed better.
3. You should not eat late. The last meal (dinner) should take place 3 hours before bedtime. If during this period of time the feeling of hunger is too strong, you can drink kefir or eat an apple.
4. Drinking large quantities of water is encouraged - at least 2 liters per day.
5. , in which the basis of the menu is one vegetable or unsweetened fruit.

The emphasis in dietary nutrition is on light, low-fat foods. The diet usually includes plant and animal proteins, a minimum amount of fat, fruits and vegetables, including bell peppers.

Feature of the vegetable

Bell peppers are traditionally one of the best vegetables used for weight loss. The calorie content of the product is quite low - 100 g of vegetable contains only 20-30 kcal. Also an undoubted advantage are its fat-burning properties.

In addition, this vegetable is rich in vitamins and minerals necessary for the body:

1. Vitamin C, contained in large quantities in fruits, helps with cardiovascular diseases. By eating one pepper a day, a person receives the daily requirement of the vitamin.
2. Pepper is also valuable due to its significant amount of vitamin P. Combining it with vitamin C reduces the chance of strokes.
3. B vitamins improve the condition of the skin, help strengthen hair and nails.

Thanks to this combination of properties, vegetable (sweet, bell) pepper will be appropriate in many diets.

Cooking tricks

This dish is found in many cuisines around the world, for example, in Arab countries or the Balkans. It is given variety by the widest range of products used in preparing the filling. It also allows you to include the dish in the diet of many diets.

The most common option is peppers stuffed with ground meat or vegetables. To fulfill the requirements of nutritionists and reduce the overall calorie content, to create not only low-calorie, but also tasty food, they use several tricks:

1. For dietary food systems, it is better to use lean meat, for example, minced chicken, as the main ingredient. The ideal option would be to prepare the minced meat yourself. A home-made product will not contain bone meal, various offal, pieces of fat and skin, unlike store-bought semi-finished products. Its nutritional and dietary properties will be fully preserved.
2. Avoid using small peppercorns with thin walls. When baking, the moisture will evaporate from them, there will be little pulp left, and the outer skin will spoil the taste of the dish. It is better to give preference to large fruits with fleshy walls.
3. Before cooking, unless the recipe provides for another option, the stalk is cut off and the vegetable is cleared of seeds. By cutting the peppers from the stem side, you get fruits of the same size, convenient for preparing identical portions (by weight, calorie content).
4. Various vegetables are in perfect harmony with the meat filling.
5. Regular rice, which is often found in recipes, can be replaced with brown rice; it will have a good effect on digestion.

Peculiarity! Brown (unpolished) rice takes longer to cook than white rice.

It is better to choose oven baking as a heat treatment method for preparing a dietary dish.

Recipes

You can create a delicious dietary dish in dozens of options. To do this, just take a few recipes and experiment with the ingredients.

With minced chicken and vegetables

A classic recipe that reminds us of childhood (the photo above is an example of a finished dish).

For preparation you will need:

• peppers – 6-8 pcs.;
• chicken meat (preferably breast, always without skin) – 500 g;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• onions – 2 pcs. (medium sized bulbs);
• vegetable oil (preference should be given to olive oil) – 1 tbsp;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

How to cook:

1. Grind the meat in a meat grinder and add 1 onion during the process.
2. Finely chop the second onion.
3. Grate the carrots.
4. Fry the prepared vegetables with the addition of 1 tbsp. oils
5. After a few minutes of frying, add water and simmer the vegetables for another 4-5 minutes.
6. Combine minced chicken with vegetables, salt, pepper and mix.
7. Peel the peppers from seeds and rinse the inside with water.
8. Stuff each one tightly with filling and place in a baking dish, preferably with high sides.
9. Cover the bowl with peppers with foil or a lid to suit the size.
10. Place the pan in the preheated oven. The thicker the walls of the peppers, the longer it will take to bake.

Peculiarity! No water is added to the peppers during the cooking process. When baked, the fruits release juice, in which they continue to cook.

With meat, cheese and zucchini

The dish turns out to be appetizing and satisfying, while at the same time all the necessary properties for diets, for example, protein ones, are preserved.

Ingredients for cooking:

• pepper – 6-8 pcs.;
• chicken fillet– 500 g;
• tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
• onions – 2 pcs.;
• 1/2 zucchini;
• low-fat sour cream – 2 tbsp;
• cheese – 200 g;
• salt and pepper to taste.

The preparation of the dish is quite simple:

1. Prepare the peppers. They should be washed and dried. Do not separate the stems in this recipe. Each fruit must be cut in half lengthwise and removed from the seeds.
2. Chicken meat can be ground into minced meat with a meat grinder or chopped with a knife.
3. Peel the onions, rinse and chop into small cubes.
4. Chop the tomatoes in the same way.
5. Mix vegetables with minced meat and sour cream, mix thoroughly and add spices.
6. Stuff each pepper half tightly with filling.
7. Line a baking tray with oiled baking paper, then place the vegetables on it.
8. Bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
9. Grate the cheese, sprinkle it on the dish and bake until done for another quarter of an hour.

With celery

This combination healthy vegetables will be an excellent choice for many diets.

The dish includes:

• pepper – 8 pcs.;
• chicken fillet – 800 g;
• celery root – 100 g;
• egg white – 4 pcs.;
• brown rice – 100 g;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• natural yogurt – 1 tbsp;
• dill, parsley, salt to taste.

Sequence of actions:

1. Grind the fillet and celery in a meat grinder.
2. Soak the rice (pour boiling water over it, do not drain the water for at least half an hour), then rinse and cook.
3. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. An alternative option is to mince the meat along with the main ingredients.
4. Add rice and carrots to the prepared minced meat.
5. Pour the beaten egg whites into the minced meat and stir.
6. Prepare the peppers - remove the stems and seeds, rinse (especially thoroughly inside), and dry.
7. Fill with minced meat and place in a bowl with high sides.
8. Mix yogurt with chopped herbs, salt and spices (if it does not contradict the diet rules). Pour sauce over peppers.
9. Place the prepared dish in a preheated oven to bake for 40 minutes.

Vegetarian

In such recipes, instead of meat, other products are used, for example, canned or boiled beans or other legumes (except peas), and mushrooms. Often they do without protein-containing products.

For one of these recipes you will need:

• peppers – 1 kg;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• eggplants – 2 pcs.;
• tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
• onions – 2 pcs.;
• steamed rice - 1 tbsp.;
• tomato paste – 2-3 tbsp;
• low-fat sour cream - 1 tbsp.;
• salt, pepper, bay leaf and other spices to taste.

Cooking:

1. Boil the rice (preferably until half cooked).
2. Prepare the peppers - remove stems and seeds, wash outside and inside, and dry.
3. Both onions and carrots, previously thoroughly peeled and washed, finely chop.
4. Bring the onion to translucency (to fry, add no more than 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil to the pan), add carrots and fry for 1-2 minutes, then add water and simmer the vegetables for another 5-7 minutes.
5. Cut the eggplants into layers, soak in salted water (this will remove the bitterness), rinse and cut into small cubes.
6. Heat the pan well, add the eggplants and fry for about 5 minutes. (the frying pan is dry, adding a small amount of vegetable oil is allowed).
7. Peel the tomatoes (the vegetables are first doused with boiling water), chop finely and simmer with the eggplants for about 3 minutes.
8. Combine the prepared ingredients, salt and pepper, knead well minced vegetables, then stuff each pepper tightly.
9. Place everything in a baking dish (preferably with high sides).
10. Prepare a sauce from sour cream, tomato paste and bay leaves (spices) and pour over the peppers.
11. Bake for 40-45 minutes (depending on the peppers) at 200 degrees.

Filling options

The filling for dietary stuffed peppers can include almost any product:

The components can be selected at your discretion, based on the required calorie content.

Conclusions

Stuffed peppers with dietary filling, baked in the oven, are perfect for diets intended for losing weight or maintaining slimness. The large amount of vitamins and minerals contained in pepper helps to heal the body, and plant fibers help cleanse it.

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Sometimes, when a girl or even a man is on a diet, restricting food intake can drive you crazy. Therefore, many people have a logical question: is it possible to cook something tasty without deviating from the diet you follow? The answer is simple: you can, but the recipes for the dishes you prepare must be dietary. Here, for example, is a dietary stuffed pepper. Is it possible to cook it? Oh yes!

A slow cooker is the most convenient way to prepare stuffed peppers. Judge for yourself: in the morning you fill it up, turn on the automatic heating mode, and voila: come home from work, and a delicious dinner is already waiting for you! And you don’t have to stress anyone!

Another piece of advice is to never fry the peppers themselves or what you are going to stuff them with. However, as for seasonings, especially dietary ones, this is always welcome!

Dietary stuffed peppers in a slow cooker must have a hard wall. Otherwise, the dish will fall apart right in your hands!

Stuffed peppers in a slow cooker

The simplest and least high-calorie recipe for stuffed peppers in a slow cooker is this:

• 8 peppers with seeds removed (you can remove them yourself)
• 800 grams of chicken breast;
• 4 pieces of egg white;
• Half a glass with brown rice;
• 1 carrot;
• Low-fat yogurt without dyes;
• Green;
• Salt (if desired).

The chicken needs to be cranked in a meat grinder, immediately adding celery root and grated carrots. Rice should be placed in boiled water for 2 hours, rinsed and boiled until half cooked. Egg whites and rice are added to the finished minced meat. Next, everything needs to be mixed. Fold the minced meat into the peppers, place the finished dish in a slow cooker and add water so that it completely covers the peppers. Place to simmer for an hour, or bake for 40 minutes.

You can make a sauce instead of sour cream: chop the greens into the yogurt and put it aside for a while.

Peppers stuffed with brown rice

Many people think that rice is one of the main enemies of weight loss when you want to prepare dietary stuffed peppers. However, everything is simple here: you need to take not rice by itself, in regular packaging, but unprocessed rice. This rice usually has distinguishing feature: brownish tint. Replacing the rice variety speeds up the process of digesting the dish, and it does not stagnate in the intestines for a long time, passing through it quite quickly.

Stuffed peppers with chicken

Minced meat is chicken breast, the most dietary meat of all.

Chicken breast is rightfully considered the meat that brings you the least number of problems and calories. This is white meat! In terms of “non-calorie content,” chicken can only compete with rabbit meat, which is much more difficult to obtain than chicken.

Here, for example, is a good recipe. We will need:

• 1 kilogram of chicken breast;
• 100 grams of celery root;
• 4 egg whites;
• 100 grams of brown rice;
• 1 carrot;
• 8 peppers;
• Low-fat yogurt;
• Green;
• Salt.

Minced meat must be prepared from chicken breasts and celery. If desired, you can salt them immediately. The rice needs to be boiled, the carrots need to be grated, and the eggs need to be beaten. When everything is ready, the minced meat and prepared products need to be mixed. Next, the peppers themselves are stuffed with minced meat. You can cook in a double boiler; to do this, place the peppers in a medium-sized bowl. They need to be steamed for about 30 minutes. Prepare the sauce in the same way as in the previous recipe - chop the greens and throw them into the yogurt.

Diet stuffed peppers without rice

Is it possible to replace rice with vegetables? If you really don’t want to put rice in peppers, even brown ones, then there is this option: cook it with vegetables! The minced meat remains the same, but vegetables that are replaced with rice can not only reduce the number of calories, but also completely satiate you. So, you will need:

• 6-8 peppers;
• 500 grams of chicken/veal meat;
• 2 onions, chopped;
• 1 tiny carrot;
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil;
• Salt and black pepper to taste.

When twisting the meat, you need to add an onion to the mass. The second one just needs to be cut together with the carrots and placed in a frying pan, previously watered with vegetable oil. Frying should be done for several minutes. Add a little water and start simmering for 5 minutes. Then you need to mix the minced meat with these vegetables, add spices and stir.

Next you need to process the pepper. Remove the seeds and wash the insides. You need to put minced meat inside the peppers and place the half-finished dish on a mold with sides. Then it can be put in the oven and cooked at a temperature of 180 to 200 degrees for 40 minutes. If the pods are large, it is better to increase the time.

By the way, some people do not make minced meat at all, without using meat, and always use only vegetables. Perhaps this has a meaning!

Stuffed peppers without meat

But what if our dieter is a vegetarian? You can cook peppers stuffed without meat. But no, you can easily replace minced meat:

• Mushrooms. They require a special preparatory approach: first, it is better to cook them for about 5 minutes, and then chop and fry them together with dietary spices;
• First of all, the eggplants need to be soaked for half an hour in lightly salted water. This will help get rid of the bitterness inherent in any eggplant. In this case, it is better to take more at once - about 1 kilogram of eggplant. Then it needs to be cut and simmered for 20-30 minutes to soften the vegetable. Then - everything is as always, we turn it through a meat grinder, put it into minced meat, simmer again and serve with soy or yogurt sauce.
• Red beans own juice. In this case, no pre-cooking is required.

Each of these products is good for weight loss and fits into almost any diet.

Stuffed peppers with vegetables

What to replace rice with? However, not only meat can be replaced and completely removed, but also rice. If you don't like the brown rice option (or are annoyed that it takes too long to cook), then try these ingredients:

• 8 peppers;
• 500 grams of meat (chicken, veal, rabbit);
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• Spices, if desired;
• Tomato paste - exactly the same, optional;
• Salt. Optional.

The meat must first be washed in cold water, then cut into large pieces. Vegetables need to be peeled, washed and finely chopped. Ready mixture Place in a meat grinder and turn thoroughly. Then chop the tomatoes and also add to the minced meat.

Next, salt and spices are added. We process the peppers, put rice in them and cook in the same way as described in several recipes above. We cook in saucepans, multicookers and even bake in ovens - any cooking method can be used. It all depends on you and your capabilities!

Stuffed peppers in the oven

We already wrote above that you have the opportunity to cook dietary stuffed peppers in the oven. What are the features of this method? Well, the most important feature is that the pepper is placed in a place where it already takes on an edible form, raw.

There is no need to pour water into the baking pan before baking. When diet stuffed peppers are heated, they already release liquid and the peppers literally cook in their own juices.

September 13, 2013

Dietary stuffed peppers (without tomatoes and carrots)

Simple dietary stuffed peppers are rarely prepared today. Basically, the Internet is dominated by recipes for stuffed peppers with carrots, fried onions and a lot of tomato. Not only can such recipes not be called dietary, but they also have little to do with classic stuffed peppers.

On this same page you will find a recipe for a classic diet stuffed pepper that will appeal to both children and adults, and the preparation of which is unlikely to cause many difficulties for novice cooks.

Simple dietary stuffed peppers are rarely prepared today. Basically, the Internet is dominated by recipes for stuffed peppers with carrots, fried onions and a lot of tomato. Not only can such recipes not be called dietary, but they also have little to do with classic stuffed peppers. On this same page you will find a recipe for a classic diet stuffed pepper that both children and adults will enjoy, and the preparation of which is unlikely to cause...

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Traditional stuffed peppers

Peppers stuffed with traditional recipe, without numerous spices, carrots and other bells and whistles. Soviet classics

Quantity of ingredients

Easy to prepare

Cooking time

Is it suitable for a holiday table?

Is it suitable for daily nutrition

Is it suitable for dietary and baby food?

Ingredients:

— 600 grams of ground pepper;
- 300 grams ground beef;
- 2/3 cup rice;
- 50 ml milk;
- salt to taste;
- dried or fresh herbs to taste

Separate mention must be made of meat and minced meat.

The most delicious dietary stuffed peppers according to the traditional recipe are made from boiled meat (beef). That is, you need to boil a piece of beef pulp (you can see how to do this) and make minced meat from it.

Unfortunately, today, due to the abundance of ready-made minced meat, people are usually too lazy to make minced meat from boiled meat and cook with raw minced meat. For dishes like stuffed peppers or stuffed zucchini, this is not very good. But it's possible. We will also use ready-made raw minced meat. But still minced boiled meat is preferable.

Now about herbs and other seasonings. For greens you need to take dill and/or parsley. You shouldn't use too much. There is no need to use stronger herbs such as cilantro or basil. The thing is that the main tzimmes of stuffed peppers is the aroma itself bell pepper, which seasonings simply eliminate.

1. Wash the peppers and cut out the centers. Free from seeds. All this must be done very carefully so as not to damage the peppers themselves.

2. Boil the rice. You can see how to properly cook rice in a saucepan.

3. Mix rice and minced meat. Salt well.

4. Stuff peppers with rice and meat.

Novice cooks often wonder how tightly they should stuff peppers. It all depends on their size. It is better to stuff small peppers tightly. But you shouldn’t stuff big fruits with “I can’t.” If you do this, then there will be too much “porridge” in the pepper and very little pepper itself.

5. Place the peppers in a saucepan. Pour salted milk there and add herbs (if the herbs were fresh, they must first be chopped). Add water to the pan so that it covers the peppers approximately halfway.

6. Place the pan with peppers on the fire and cook for 35-45 minutes. It is necessary to cook over low heat under the lid, slightly moved to the side so that it does not escape.

All. Simple dietary stuffed peppers are ready.

Serve hot with sour cream.

Vegetables and lean meat are an excellent combination of products for dietary and simply healthy balanced nutrition. From these ingredients you can prepare a lot of different dishes - for example, dietary stuffed peppers. This dish is quite common in our kitchen, but hardly anyone has ever positioned it as dietary. However, when proper preparation nourishing and tasty stuffed peppers can also be low-calorie!

In fact, almost any dish can be made diet-friendly by preparing it correctly and substituting or eliminating a few ingredients. First of all, nutritionists recommend avoiding frying in a pan using oils and fats. If you cook something in this way, then only in a dry frying pan with a special non-stick coating. However, the most suitable cooking methods are steaming, oven, stewing or boiling.

How to cook stuffed peppers for a diet?

Today you can find a lot of the most different recipes stuffed pepper. But we suggest you familiarize yourself with the one that is ideal for dietary nutrition. The resulting dish will perfectly satiate the stomach, give the body a lot of useful substances, but at the same time will not harm the figure in any way, since its calorie content will be minimal.

Required ingredients:

• 12 medium-sized sweet peppers;
• 500 grams of minced chicken fillet;
• 3 carrots;
• 3 onions;
• 1 raw chicken egg;
• 500 grams of natural tomato juice;
• 500 grams of low-fat sour cream;
• salt;
• ground black pepper;
• black allspice peas;
• bay leaf;
• dried herbs to your taste.

So, first you need to thoroughly wash and dry the vegetables. Carefully remove the cores from the peppers using a knife with a narrow blade. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a fine grater.

In a deep bowl, mix minced chicken with finely chopped onions and grated carrots, then add a raw chicken egg to this mixture. Mix all ingredients thoroughly, add a little pepper and salt. During stewing, it is the onions that will give the minced chicken special tenderness, and the chicken fillet itself is the best meat for dietary nutrition, as it contains a lot of protein with a minimum amount of calories.

So, it's time to stuff the peppers minced chicken. The most convenient way to do this is with a coffee or teaspoon. When all the peppers are stuffed, place them vertically in a deep pan, pour boiled natural tomato juice, slightly diluted with water. The liquid should reach almost to the very top of the peppers, but so that it does not cover them. This is especially important because too much liquid will “wash out” the pepper filling. Add bay leaf, herbs and allspice.

Stew the stuffed peppers for 30 minutes over low heat. At the very end, add low-fat sour cream and boil for another couple of minutes.

That's all - the dish is ready! There is not a single ingredient that needs to be fried, making this food ideal for a diet.

The dish is enriched with a large amount of protein, which is very useful during weight loss, as it creates a long-lasting feeling of fullness and promotes strengthening. muscle mass. This is extremely important, since when there is a deficiency of protein in the diet of a person losing weight, the body uses muscle tissue as an energy source.

This dish is completely independent, so it’s perfect for lunch or dinner. Vegetables and meat - great combination: by consuming them, you immediately get protein, fiber, and vitamins. If you are striving for healthy and balanced diet, which will not harm your figure, then dietary stuffed peppers are what you need!

Some diets recommend completely eliminating meat from the diet, replacing it with vegetables and low-percentage dairy/fermented milk products. This is a fundamentally wrong approach - just like completely excluding carbohydrates from the menu. A deficiency of certain nutrients in the diet can in no way benefit your health, and therefore will not benefit your figure.

With a lack of carbohydrates, those losing weight often experience fatigue, apathy, headaches, nausea, etc. And in the absence of the required amount of protein in the diet, muscle mass is depleted. At the same time, subcutaneous fats remain “in place”. In view of all this, those losing weight are advised to approach the preparation of their daily diet menu with special responsibility and not to get carried away with too strict restrictions.