If you’ve been following this blog, you know we recently acquired a Tagine. Every couple of days I try to cook something different in it…not only because it is a great new vessel to cook in, but also because I don’t want to figure out where to store it when it’s not in use! Every cabinet and flat surface in our house is overflowing – but not yet to the point where intervention is required. Right, honey? Honey? 🙂
Stuffed peppers are very festive, and certainly are a party for your palate with all the different textures and flavors in every bite. According to Claudia Roden in The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, both the Turks and the Greeks claim to have created stuffed vegetables, which most likely developed as part of a court cuisine meant to impress the rich and powerful. These stuffed peppers are impressive looking, especially considering they don’t take a huge amount of effort to prepare.
Six pepper halves fit perfectly in the tagine, and it provided an excellent environment for cooking the peppers while keeping the filling moist.
Since these stuffed peppers are filled with a rich combination of meat, fruit, and cheese, they are good all on their own! Or, next time you are serving royalty, add them to the buffet.
Ingredients:
At the end of the meal, we enjoyed a few Medjool dates stuffed with pecans. Like stuffed vegetables, these precious and delicate fruits were once reserved for royalty and their guests. Each bite of our treat was reminiscent of sweet, sticky pecan pie, without the corn syrup and pie crust. Beware, primal eaters, these babies are NOT low-carb (about 18 carbs apiece), so take it easy on the dessert!
No intervention yet, please…I still have albums to buy! Like this dandy one I picked up the other day:
Hits 1979-1989
from Rosanne Cash. This isn’t her best period sonically, since it was mostly from the ’80s and and despite then-husband Rodney Crowell’s best effort, it still sounds like MTV music. But the songs are great: “Seven Year Ache” and “My Baby Thinks He’s a Train”…Johnny’s daughter does good.
Now, for a record that is as near to perfect as you can get, try Shadowland from K.D. Lang. Produced by Patsy Cline’s producer Owen Bradley, this collection of honky tonkers and weepers showcases Lang’s gorgeous voice almost as sweetly as pecan-stuffed dates! Yum!
I think I can take a break from eating low carb for these. I really like feta, so that would be an essential ingredient for me. Thanks for the post.
The stuffed peppers aren’t too bad in the carb department, if I have calculated right. A serving of 2 stuffed pepper halves comes out to around 25 carbs. The major carb push is coming from the dried fruit, so using less of that ingredient might help.
Now the dessert of pecan-stuffed dates…not low carb at all, but nice for a treat!
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I made these last week–I ended up using some dates in the pepper stuffing, along with cranberries. Really delicious!
Oh, good idea! I love dates and I bet that was fabulous. I will try that next time, thanks!
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