Sweet pepper chicken is a delectable dish that tantalizes the taste buds with its sweet, savory, and slightly spicy flavors. This culinary creation combines the tenderness of chicken with the vibrant colors and crisp texture of bell peppers, making it a visually appealing and satisfying meal. Whether you prefer a mild or bold taste, there's a sweet pepper chicken recipe out there to suit your palate. From simple stir-fries to more elaborate dishes, this article will guide you through the culinary journey of finding the best sweet pepper chicken recipe that will make your taste buds dance with delight.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
ROTISSERIE CHICKEN PANINI WITH ROASTED SWEET RED PEPPER, SPINACH, AND GUACAMOLE
Pull out your panini maker and create a yummy sandwich with leftover rotisserie chicken. The cheese forms the first layer, so it can anchor the chicken pieces and get nice and gooey! The recipe is for one sandwich, but it is easily increased, if you have more in your household. Every bakery has a different size for submarine buns, so adjust the ingredients as you need.
Provided by Bibi
Yield 1
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat panini maker to medium-low.
- Open the roll and place a layer of cheese on the bottom half of the bread, fitting cheese to the contours of the bun. Layer rotisserie chicken, roasted sweet red pepper, onion rings, and bacon on top.
- Place a layer of fresh spinach leaves on the bacon and spoon prepared guacamole on top. Place second half of bun on top. Brush top and bottom plates of panini maker with butter, and place the sandwich in the buttered area.
- Close the panini maker and cook until cheese is melted, chicken is warmed, and bun is crispy and lightly browned, 4 to 5 minutes. Serve warm with dill pickle spear.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 564.3 calories, Carbohydrate 51.1 g, Cholesterol 51.7 mg, Fat 31 g, Fiber 6.2 g, Protein 21.3 g, SaturatedFat 10.6 g, Sodium 1786.4 mg, Sugar 6 g
SWEET PEPPER CHICKEN
Sweet red and green pepper strips add attractive color to this delicious chicken from Ann Johnson. "Put it in the slow cooker before getting ready for church on Sunday morning," recommends the Dunn, North Carolina cook. "It'll be ready to eat by the time you get home."
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 4h10m
Yield 6 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a large skillet, brown chicken in oil on both sides. Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker. Top with mushrooms, onion and peppers. Combine the soups; pour over vegetables., Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until a thermometer reads 170°. Serve with rice.
Nutrition Facts : Fat 11 g fat (3 g saturated fat), Cholesterol 79 mg cholesterol, Sodium 808 mg sodium, Carbohydrate 13 g carbohydrate, Fiber 2 g fiber, Protein 30 g protein.
CHICKEN AND SWEET PEPPER STIR-FRY
Stir-fry fans will line up for seconds with this easy combo of fresh and colorful bell peppers, tender chicken, and an Asian sauce over instant rice.
Provided by By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Entree
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Cook rice in 1 1/2 cups water as directed on package.
- Meanwhile, in small bowl, combine all sauce ingredients; mix well. Set aside.
- Heat oil in wok or 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add chicken strips; cook and stir 3 to 5 minutes or until no longer pink in center. Add garlic; cook and stir an additional 30 seconds or until tender. Remove chicken mixture from wok; place on plate.
- Add bell peppers and onion to same wok; cook and stir 1 minute. Add 1/4 cup water; cover and cook 2 minutes or until vegetables are partially cooked. Uncover; stir in pineapple and sauce mixture. Cook uncovered an additional 2 to 3 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Return chicken to wok; cook and stir until thoroughly heated. Serve over rice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 430, Carbohydrate 59 g, Cholesterol 70 mg, Fat 1, Fiber 2 g, Protein 30 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, ServingSize 1/4 of Recipe, Sodium 880 mg, Sugar 18 g
ARUGULA-MANGO SALAD WITH GRILLED PORTOBELLO, SWEET RED PEPPER SAUCE, AND CHICKEN SCALLOPINI
Steps:
- For the marinade, combine soy sauce and cornstarch in a medium-size bowl. Stir until cornstarch is dissolved, then stir in sesame oil, 1 tbsp lemon juice, and ginger. Toss with chicken and let marinate 20 to 30 minutes. For the salsa, combine mangoes, scallions, serrano pepper, cilantro, lime juice, and salt. Let sit 20 to 30 minutes. For the salad, whisk together remaining 1 tbsp lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper to taste, then toss dressing with watercress. To cook chicken, coat a large skillet with cooking spray and set over medium-high heat. Add chicken in a single layer and cook 3 to 4 minutes on each side until browned and cooked through. To assemble the plates, place 1/4 watercress salad on each plate, then mound 1/4 salsa in the center and arrange chicken strips on top.
CHICKEN IN SWEET PEPPER SAUCE
"I learned to prepare this dish from a local chef before I was married, but I've varied it slightly," Jennifer Class of Kirkland, Washington shares. "Served with a green salad and rice or potatoes, it makes a simple but elegant meal for two."
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 30m
Yield 2 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Flatten chicken to 1/4-in. thickness. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt and pepper; add chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. , In a large skillet, brown chicken in butter on both sides until no longer pink. Stir in the broth, wine or additional broth and yellow pepper. Bring to a boil; cook for 5 minutes or until liquid is reduced by half. Stir in the tomato and cilantro.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 317 calories, Fat 10g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 109mg cholesterol, Sodium 632mg sodium, Carbohydrate 12g carbohydrate (2g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 36g protein. Diabetic Exchanges
CHICKEN IN A RED SWEET PEPPER SAUCE
The was originally from Madhur Jaffrey's Indian cookery. Over the years I have added and taken away bits, but the colour is still great and the flavours unchanged. Don't be put off by the long list of ingredients, it is very quick to make.
Provided by Tulip-Fairy
Categories Chicken
Time 40m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Combine onions, ginger, garlic, almonds, peppers, cumin , coriander, turmeric, cayenne and salt in a food processor or blender. Blend until you have a smooth paste.
- Put the oil in a large, wide non-stick pan and heat til hot.
- Pour in all the paste from the food processor.
- Stir and fry the paste for 10-12 minutes or until you can see the oil forming tiny bubbles around it.
- Put in the chicken, with the water, lemon juice and pepper and bring to a boil.
- Cover, turn heat to ow and simmer gently for 25mins.
- Stir a few times during this cooking period.
CHICKEN BREASTS IN SWEET RED PEPPER SAUCE
Provided by Enid Nemy
Categories dinner, main course
Time 20m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cut chicken breasts in half, and thoroughly wash and dry. Season with salt and pepper.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Meanwhile, heat olive oil over moderately high heat. Add breasts and saute 2 to 3 minutes on each side, or until golden.
- Bake in preheated oven 5 to 7 minutes, basting once. Skin should be crisp and springy to touch. Remove from pan and keep warm.
- Discard remaining oil in pan. Add butter and saute shallots until soft but not brown.
- Pour white wine into pan and bring to simmer. Stir, scraping bottom and sides, until liquid is reduced to about Y cup.
- Add chicken stock and reduce liquid to approximately 1 cup, scraping brown bits from pan.
- Add heavy cream and simmer until liquid thickens, being careful not to let it boil over.
- Add pureed peppers and stir until heated through. Place a quarter of the mixture on each of four plates. Put two breast halves on top of each; sprinkle with mixed herbs.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 1139, UnsaturatedFat 46 grams, Carbohydrate 21 grams, Fat 94 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 44 grams, SaturatedFat 43 grams, Sodium 1517 milligrams, Sugar 12 grams, TransFat 1 gram
CHICKEN IN SWEET AND HOT PEPPER SAUCE
If you don't like it hot, leave out the peppers and cayenne; I would think you end up with a nice sweet sauce but without "the kick". You can use parsley if you are not a basil fan.
Provided by PetsRus
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 1h
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Put the first 6 ingredients in your blender or food processor and process into a paste/pulp.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan or Dutch oven, when hot enough pour the pepper paste in and on a medium high heat fry for 10 minutes.
- Add the milk and chicken stock.
- Then add the chicken and stir, add the zucchini a few minutes later.
- Bring to the boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer for 10- 15 minutes or until the chicken is tender.
- In the meantime cook the pasta according package instructions, drain when cooked, and put in a large warm dish.
- Check the seasoning of the chicken dish, If you find the sauce too thick you can add some more chicken stock, it depends how much moisture the zucchini will release, add half of the basil, mix and put half of the chicken on top of the pasta, mix, then pour over the remaining.
- Sprinkle the rest of the basil on top together with the pine nuts.
- Serve.
FONTINA CHEESE AND RED SWEET PEPPER STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS
This is a wonderful recipe that came ouf of an old Better homes and gardens magazine. I say 2-4 servings because I can usually only eat 1/2 of one, however I do not eat large portions. For those who do, this will probably only serve 2.
Provided by love4culinary
Categories Chicken
Time 37m
Yield 2-4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- First you will need to rinse your chicken well, and then pat it dry.
- Take each breast half, and place it, boned side up.
- between two pieces of clear plastic wrap.
- Working from the center to the edges, pound lightly with a meat mallet (make sure that you are using the flat side) until 1/4-inch thick.
- Remove the plastic wrap after you are done pounding.
- Sprinkle the chicken with freshly ground black pepper (to taste), and then layer the fontina, pepper halves, and sage evenly in the center of each breast.
- Fold in the edges; roll up jelly-roll style, pressing the edges to seal, and then roll in flour.
- In an 8 inch skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat.
- Cook the chicken about 5 minutes, turning to brown on all sides.
- Remove from skillet.
- In the same skillet, bring wine OR broth to a boil; reduce heat.
- Simmer uncovered for approximately 2 minutes or until 1/4 cup of liquid remains.
- Return chicken to the skillet, and cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes until chicken is no longer pink in the center.
- To Serve, spoon juices over the chicken.
- You can also slice the chicken into rounds for a beautiful presentation.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 393.8, Fat 18.8, SaturatedFat 7.1, Cholesterol 108.5, Sodium 367.4, Carbohydrate 10.6, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 1, Protein 33.5
HOT AND SWEET PEPPER CURRY SAUCE WITH CHICKEN, LAMB OR BEEF
Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 2h25m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 25
Steps:
- Marinate the meat sprinkled with salt, pepper and paprika in the lime juice for 1 hour.
- Heat the oil in a Dutch oven, then add the coriander, cumin, turmeric and cardamom and stir until very fragrant, 1 minute. Next add the garlic, sweet and hot peppers, ginger, onions and some salt and pepper. Soften for 5 minutes partially covered, and then add the passata, stock, chutney, bay leaf, cinnamon stick and diced tomatoes. Simmer over low heat, about 1 hour. Remove the bay and cinnamon.
- Add the marinated meat to the sauce and simmer to tender. Wilt the spinach into the sauce. Serve, or cool and store in the refrigerator or freezer for a make-ahead meal.
- Serve the curry with naan bread and/or over rice with a dollop of yogurt for mixing in. Garnish with cilantro and scallion slices.
LAL MASALE WALI MURGH - CHICKEN IN A RED SWEET PEPPER SAUCE
Steps:
- If chicken legs are whole, divide drumsticks from thighs with a sharp knife. Breasts should be cut into four parts. Skin all chicken pieces. Combine onion, ginger, garlic, almonds, peppers, cumin, coriander, turmeric, cayenne, and salt in the container of a food processor or blender. Blend, pushing down with a rubber spatula whenever you need to, until you have a paste. Put the oil in a large, wide, and preferably non-stick pan over medium-high flame. When hot, pour in paste. Stir and fry the paste for 10 - 12 minutes or until you can see the oil forming tiny bubbles around it. Put in the chicken, with the water, lemon juice, and pepper. Stir to mix and bring to a boil. Cover, turn heat to low and simmer gently for 25 minutes or until the chicken is tender. Stir a few times during this cooking period.
SWEET PEPPER-STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS RECIPE - (4.3/5)
Provided by HeatherS
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Cut sweet peppers into thin strips In a nonstick skillet, melt butter over medium heat; cook sweet pepper strips and 1/4 tsp each of the salt, pepper and thyme, stirring, for three minutes. Set aside. Pat chicken dry. Place between sheets of waxed paper; pound lightly to 1/4 inch thickness. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Place pepper strips crosswise on short end of each breast; roll up and secure with toothpicks. Sprinkle with remaining salt, pepper and thyme. In same skillet, brown chicken lightly on all sides. Transfer to rimmed baking sheet; bake in 375F oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink inside. Meanwhile, in skillet, bring chicken stock or wine to boil, stirring to scrape up brown bits. Stir in mustard; cook, stirring over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until slightly reduced. Spoon over chicken and serve.
HONEY SWEET PEPPER CHICKEN
This recipe and picture is from deepsouthdish.com. Toni T turned me on to this site, they have some good looking recipes. This is a colorful,and I'm sure flavorful chicken dish that would be easy to make.Toni suggested she would make it from chicken thighs and I agree. I would serve it with yellow rice ,a salad and vegetable.
Provided by Leanne D.
Categories Chicken
Time 2h20m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- 1. Whisk together the dressing, lime juice and Cajun seasoning in a large bowl. Tenderize chicken and flatten thicker ends. Place chicken in bowl, turning to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Heat oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Remove chicken breasts from the bowl, without draining, and transfer to the skillet, browning chicken on both sides and cooking in batches to avoid overcrowding the pan. Remove chicken and brush both sides with the honey; set aside. Add the onions and peppers to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes over medium. Reduce heat to medium low, return the chicken to the skillet and continue cooking, covered, until chicken is cooked through and reaches 165 degrees in the thickest part of the breast, turning a few times. Do not overcook! Uncover, turn to coat and transfer chicken to a serving platter. Serve over rice and pour the pan juices and peppers on top.
Tips:
- Mise en Place: Before you start cooking, make sure you have all of your ingredients and equipment ready to go. This will help you stay organized and avoid scrambling.
- Use Quality Ingredients: The better the quality of your ingredients, the better your dish will taste. Look for fresh, organic produce and high-quality meat and seafood.
- Season Your Food Well: Don't be afraid to add plenty of salt and pepper to your dishes. This will help to enhance the flavors of the other ingredients.
- Cook Your Chicken Thoroughly: Make sure that your chicken is cooked all the way through before serving. This is important for both food safety and taste.
- Use a Variety of Vegetables: Don't just stick to one or two vegetables in your dish. Use a variety of colors and textures to create a more interesting and flavorful meal.
- Add a Sauce or Marinade: A sauce or marinade can help to add flavor and moisture to your chicken. Experiment with different flavors to find one that you like.
- Garnish Your Dish: A simple garnish can help to make your dish look more appealing. Try adding a sprinkle of chopped parsley, cilantro, or green onions.
Conclusion:
Sweet and sour chicken is a delicious and easy-to-make dish that is perfect for a weeknight meal. With a few simple ingredients and a little bit of time, you can create a restaurant-quality dish that your family and friends will love. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy dinner idea, give sweet and sour chicken a try.
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