Romano rellenos with chipotle salsa
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- makes 6
- 6 romano peppers
- olive oil
- 1 red onionfinely chopped
- 2-3 tbsp from a jar sliced jalapeño chillieschopped
- 1 clove garliccrushed
- 250g pack cooked basmati rice
- 3 plum tomatoeschopped
- ½ a small bunch corianderchopped
- 3 balls mozzarellaroughly grated
salsa
- 1 tbsp chipotle paste
- ½ red onionfinely chopped
- 1 plum tomatochopped
- a handful corianderchopped
- 1 limejuiced
- olive oil
- kcal320
- fat17.7g
- saturates0g
- carbs22.2g
- sugars0g
- fibre4.5g
- protein15.3g
- salt0.9g
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Lay the whole peppers in an oiled baking dish or tray in a single layer. Drizzle with more oil then season. Bake for 20 minutes then take out and cool a little.
step 2
While the peppers are in the oven, cook the red onion, jalapeños and garlic in a little oil until softened, then stir in the rice, tomato and coriander. Cool, then stir in the mozzarella and season.
step 3
Carefully cut a slit down the centre of each pepper, scoop out any seeds and pith and stuff with the rice mix. Put back in the oven for another 20-30 minutes until the peppers are soft and the tops are golden.
step 4
Mix the salsa ingredients with 1 tbsp olive oil and spoon over to serve.