Thursday, May 6, 2010

Oh Paprika!

I found a gigantic Red Pepper the other day in the supermarket, It was so beautiful. I normally never use a whole pepper for any meal, while my husband always does. This time I thought ok, here we will have pepper for a couple of meals!. To my surprise I ended up using the whole of the largest pepper we have ever bought!
I cut the top of the pepper, I was trying to get some inspiration, what am I going to do with this beauty?!
It really was beautiful! I cleared the seeds away and thought, hmmm stuffed pepper! sounds good. I had recently done stuffed pumpkin, it turned out really good, so this time I wanted to do something different. I decided not to cook the vegetables inside ...
I gathered onion, zucchini, apple (most of the food we buy has some sort of sweetener in it, and I really enjoy a sweet point on my food, but as I can not use sugar I am using apples on everything), carrot, dates, spinach, walnuts. Chopped it all and mixed it together in a large bowl.
it needs some PARMESAN cheese, by now you might have notice, we do like Parmesan cheese over here!
and some black pepper. I think I didn't have to necessarily upload this picture, but I thought it was cool and I really like it!
Fill the pepper with the vegetable mix, put the top on top!
I had way more vegetable mix then what I needed so I decide it to roasted together with the pepper on the same foil.
into the oven ...
Yumm!
by now you might have realized that I forgot something ... hmmm ... salt!
My husband has the best solution for this cases ... soy sauce! it really made the trick! I think even with adding salt to the mix on the first place, the soy sauce is a nice add.

Ingredients
1 large Pepper
1 medium red onion
1/2 zucchini
1 apple
1 carrot
3 dates
1 hand full of spinach
1 hand full of walnuts
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
salt
soy sauce

Remember, there is not such a thing as right or wrong on this one, you can add all sort of different spices you enjoy. I think it is a great idea and it gives you the possibility to serve a nice looking plate of delicious vegetables!

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