Steps for making the stuffing:
- Clean half a kg of potatoes and pressure cook them. Add adequate water in the vessel and the pressure cooker as well. Pressure cook for about 12 whistles, that is the level I did in my pressure cooker. Also, keep cooking butter out so that it comes to room temperature.
- Let the pressure cooker cool down completely, take the potatoes out and let them cool as well.
- When it has reached a comfortable level of heat for you, peal your potatoes.
- Coarsely mash your potatoes.
- Cut 2 onion, 2 chillies, 2 inch ginger
- Keep half a cup of tomato puree aside
- Heat a big pan.
- Add 2 tablespoons of cooking butter or ghee and melt it
- Add the cut onions, chillies and ginger to this, let it splutter. Onions need to go pink or translucent in colour.
- Next add the mashed potatoes and stir everything together
- Now add 1 tablespoon of sugar and salt per taste
- Pour the tomato puree now to this
- Add a teaspoon of chunky chaat masala
- Add a teaspoon of pepper and or mirchi powder, based on how spicy you want it.
- Mix all the ingredients together and let it simmer for a bit.
- Let the mixture cool
- Prepare breadcrumbs by crumbling old bread. This helps in giving binding to the stuffing. Keep aside.
- Pre heat your oven to 180C for 20 minutes, line your baking dish with butter or parchment paper.
Steps for prepping the capsicum (before stuffing)
- Cut the top of the capsicum off, deseed it thoroughly and cut vertically in half (refer photo above)
- Cut 2 lemons and keep aside.
- Keep some room temperature cooking butter in a dish, dip the cut lemons into this butter.
- Apply the lemon and butter mixture to the inside of the deseeded capsicum.
- Coat the outside and inside of the capsicum with some butter, you can use your hand or a buttering brush.
- Cut some fresh coriander and mint leaves for added taste.
Steps for stuffing the capsicum
- Take 2 tablespoons of the potato stuffing, mix it with the bread crumbs and then dip it in the coriander and mint leaves.
- Now carefully add the stuffing to the prepared capsicum.
- You can add a slice of cheese on top, the taste is amazing!
- You can line about 4-6 at a time, this depends on how big your capsicum are.
- Pop it into your preheated oven.
- It takes about 20-25 minutes to bake, see the level of charring. I don’t like mine overly burnt.
- Let it cool for about 5-10 minutes. It might look cool but the stuffing is really hot!
Let me know how it is after you bake it? Any queries?