Pepper rolls [vegan recipe]

Pepper rolls, the vegan recipe to prepare them

Pepper rolls, prescription of a summer dish tasty and colorful. A very versatile vegan dish, perfect to serve cold, it can be included among the antipasti but, if accompanied by a good side dish, it can also be proposed as second dish.

The preparation is extremely simple, just blanch the peppers for a few minutes, this step will soften them and make them elastic; the filling instead is based on breadcrumbs, capers, basil and toasted pine nuts.

A strong but at the same time delicate and tantalizing flavor is certainly the strong point of this vegan dish. If you don't like pine nuts or you simply don't have them in the pantry, you can safely omit them without compromising the success of the recipe; moreover, if you don't like peppers al dente, you can use roasted peppers.

Ingredients

2 peppers
16 pinenuts
32 gr of extra virgin olive oil
80 gr of breadcrumbs
4 sprigs of basil
1 clove of garlic
12 gr of salted capers

Preparation Time:
40 minutes
Cooking time:
10 minutes
Rest time:
-
Dose:
4 people to
difficulty:
low

How to prepare pepper rolls: procedure

lavare the peppers, cut the stalk, remove the seeds and internal filaments, and cut them into strips about three / four centimeters wide,
blanch them in lightly salted boiling water for about six / eight minutes or in any case until they become soft enough to roll them up without breaking,
Than we remove them from the water and let them cool in a colander.

Meantime toast the pine nuts for a few minutes in a pan,
to peel garlic, rinse the capers and basil and put everything in a food processor together with the breadcrumbs and oil, and pulverize everything.

Relax the strips of peppers on the work surface, stuff them with the freshly prepared mixture and the pine nuts, then gently roll them up and block them with toothpicks.