Every week I’m testing a Ottolenghi recipe. I prepared this one to serve it in a mezze. The opinions were divided. I liked it very much, but Marie found the texture to mealy.
Stuffed Romano peppers with ricotta and mascarpone
2016-06-02 22:24:51
Serves 2
Total Time
45 min
Ingredients
- 2 Romano peppers (650g)
- 80g ricotta
- 40g mascarpone or cream cheese
- 20g pistachios, roughly cruched
- the leaves of 5 springs of persley, roughly chopped
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest, plus 1 tsp juice
- 1 tbsp + 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 small green chilli, cut into paper-thin slices
- Salt and black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Use a little knife to make a small vertical incision – about 6 centimeters long – from the top towards the end of each pepper. You will use this incision to scoop out the seeds later. Arrange the pepper on a roasting tray and place in the oven for 30 minutes, until soft. Remove and set aside to cool before using a small spoon to carefully extract and discard the seeds. The aim is to leave the stem on the peppers when they are stuffed so take your time here: it’s a fiddly job. Peel the skin off the peppers – again, don’t rush here – and set aside on a kitchen paper-lined plate to dry.
- To make the filling place the cheeses, pistachios, parsley, lemon zest, lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of olive oil in a large bowl. Add half a pinch of salt and a good grind of black pepper and whisk well.
- Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture into each pepper and press evenly inside. Don’t worry if the incision increases in the process: you can use your hands to seal the pepper.
- Wipe the peppers clean and place them on individual serving plates. Drizzle 1 teaspoons of olive oil around each pepper. Sprinkle over a few slices of the green chilli and serve.
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