STUFFED PEPPERS

MARIA TERESA TAPIA ZAPATA AND CIELO ALVA LEÓN

Ingredients

10 peppers

½ kg ground beef

¼ Quinoa

2 boiled eggs

2 eggs

½ white onion

¼ black olives

2 tbsp roasted and chopped peanuts

2 tbsp raisins

6 tbsp chili panca paste

5 bay leaves

1 tbsp chopped parsley

1 can of evaporated milk

¼ tsp sugar

⅓ cup vegetable oil

salt and pepper to taste

PREPARATION:

Cut the top of the peppers, and with a spoon remove the veins and seeds trying not to break
them, wash them and place them in a large pot, cover them with water, add salt and 1 tsp of
sugar, place on the heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and let cool.

We must heat the water with salt. Once the water starts to boil, add the quinoa. Let cook for
about 15 minutes, over medium heat, in a covered pot, always watching our seeds.

Once boiled, we must drain the quinoa with a fine strainer, then place it in a container, cover
and let it rest for a few minutes.

Meanwhile, heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat, add the panca chili, the ground meat until
well fried and then add the bay leaves. Add the onion, 1 teaspoon of sugar, salt, pepper to taste,
stir well and turn off the heat. Add the peanuts, oregano, olives, hard-boiled eggs, parsley,
raisins, and quinoa.

We preheat the oven to 180°C. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture and place a few pieces of
cheese on top and place the tapas that we had reserved.

Then we place the stuffed peppers on a baking sheet.

In a bowl, beat the eggs with the evaporated milk, salt, and pepper to taste, and pour it over the
peppers.

We bake for 18 minutes. Finally, we take them out of the oven and serve them on an individual
plate, tossing the chopped parsley on top, to enjoy.

This is a recipe that we can include in our daily diet because it contains many vitamins, proteins,
and minerals that we need to be healthy.

For example, the peppers which are a good source of antioxidant substances, such as vitamin C,
E, provitamin A and other carotenoids such as capsanthin, which are very beneficial for the
health of other molecules such as DNA, lipids and proteins, by blocking the damaging effect of
free radicals.
Quinoa, which provides fat-soluble vitamins (A, D and E), water-soluble vitamins (vitamin C),
folic acid, tianima and riboflavin) and minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium,
phosphorus, potassium, and manganese.

As well as meat, eggs, milk, cheese, olives that also provide protein, also vitamins A, B, E and D
and minerals such as phosphorus, iron, sodium and, to a lesser extent, zinc.