Italian baked pepper from Teplo café
This is a perfect option for Lenten dish: Chef of Teplo Café Sergey Fornasov cooks Italian baked pepper demonstrating how eye-catchingly vegetables may be baked.


Ingredients (for three portions):
- Sweet pepper – 3 pc;
- Tomatoes – 3 pc;
- Garlic – 2 cloves;
- Black olives – 10 pc;
- Fresh green basil – 10 g;
- Olive oil – 10 g;
- Pilati sauce – 150 g;
- Mix-lettuce for dressing.
Step 1

Let’s start: prepare ingredients.
Step 2

Halve peppers and remove seeds.
Step 3

Attention please as Sergey shows am economic way of cutting the pepper – together with the pepper stem.
Step 4

Now prepare the filling: chop fresh basil.
Step 5

First, halve black olives.
Step 6

Then finely chop them.
Step 7

Finely chop the garlic too: it’s important that garlic remains strong and slightly crispy in the dish.
Step 8

Treat tomatoes with the boiling water for 1-2 minutes.
Step 9

Take them out when the skin cracks.
Step 10

Put tomatoes in a bowl with ice and pour with cold water.
Step 11

Remove the skin.
Step 12

Cut peeled tomatoes into cubes.
Step 13

Put chopped basil, garlic, olives and tomatoes in one bowl.
Step 14

Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Step 15

Season with a few drops of olive oil.
Step 16

Mix up all with hands.
Step 17

Stuff pepper halves with filling.
Step 18

Put them on a baking pan.
Step 19

Then put them into an oven for 15 minutes at temperature 180 degrees C.
Step 20

While the pepper is being baked, there is time to dress a plate with balsamic sauce.
Step 21

When the time is up, take out of the oven.
Step 22

Top filling with Pilati sauce and put again into the oven for 3-5 minutes at t 180 degrees C.
Step 23

Dress the dish: put mix-lettuce on a plate.
Step 24

Put halves of baked pepper along both sides of the lettuce.
Step 25

Dress each half with fresh basil leaves.
Step 26

It’s ready.
Bon appetite!
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