Red Bell Pepper Halves Stuffed with Tuna

Peperoni Rossi Farciti di Tonno

Preparation info
  • 4

    Stuffed Pepper Appetizers
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Marcella Hazan

Published 1997

  • About

In the wine districts of Piedmont in Italy’s northwest corner, hospitable tables are laid with a great variety of appetizers, among which figures one version or another of stuffed peppers. Unlike conventionally hollowed-out and stuffed whole peppers, these are roasted, peeled, and flattened into broad fillets that are exceptionally luscious because they have been peeled. The fillets are folded over the stuffing, enclosing it in a kind of pouch. Like Piedmontese and other Italian cooks, I ra