DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Ardei umpluți
Red bell peppers stuffed with pork, rice and herbs in tomato sauce.
About Ardei umpluți
Gabriela shares these ardei umpluți as a recipe she grew up with in Romania. Her red-pepper version encloses ground pork, rice, onion and fresh herbs, all cooked together in a tomato-based sauce.
Fresh dill and parsley season the filling, with black pepper and salt. Dried thyme flavours the sauce, and optional sour cream adds a dairy topping at serving.
The whole peppers retain their filled shape as the tomato sauce reduces around them. The source serves them hot, with mashed potatoes offered as an additional family-style accompaniment.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ardei umpluți
Gabriela’s Romanian pork-and-rice stuffed red peppers.
- Ground porkProtein · Filling
- Red bell peppersBase · Pepper vessels
- OnionAromatic · Filling
- RiceBase · Filling
- Fresh dillAromatic · Filling
- Fresh parsleyAromatic · Filling
- SaltSeasoning · Filling
- Ground black pepperSeasoning · Filling
- Tomato pasteBase · Sauce
- WaterLiquid · Sauce
- SaltSeasoning · Sauce
- Ground black pepperSeasoning · Sauce
- Dried thymeAromatic · Sauce
- Sour creamTopping · Serving · Optional
- Mashed potatoesAccompaniment · Serving · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Ground pork: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Selected source meat.
- Red bell peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual listed author household version; original cultivar context unresolved.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Author reply confirms uncooked; variety unspecified.
- Fresh dill: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Full supplier formula unknown.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit sauce water only.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Distinct sauce portion.
- Ground black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Distinct sauce portion.
- Dried thyme: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader thyme link, dried source form.
- Sour cream (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Narrative explicitly permits omission.
- Mashed potatoes (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named family companion, full formula unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Romania
- MoldovaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Romanian Cuisine
- Moldovan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.