Stuffed peppers and garlic fried haloumi. Halloumi stuffed peppers are baked in the oven but are also delicious cooked on the BBQ too. You can serve them as a side or a main with a salad. Low in carbs, gluten free and keto they are a colourful addition to your plate.

Serve the peppers warm with a mixed salad and garlic bread. Crispy fries that aren't made of potato - but halloumi cheese instead! Just roll in flour and shallow fry until crispy. You can have Stuffed peppers and garlic fried haloumi using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Stuffed peppers and garlic fried haloumi

Prepare 2 of Bell peppers.
Prepare 1/2 cup of rice.
It's 3 clove of garlic.
It's 1 of small onion.
You need 5 of mushrooms.
It's 1 can of chopped tomatoes.
It's bunch of basil.
You need of dried herbs.
You need of Salt and pepper.
You need of olive oil.
Prepare 3 piece of haloumi cheese.
You need 30 grams of grated mild cheddar cheese.
It's 1 cup of sweetcorn.

We would go for a longish Saturday morning run, then somehow find ourselves perched on outdoor barstools stuffing our faces and ooh-ing and ah-ing. Fried peppers with garlic is a quick and easy Spanish tapa that can also be used as a side dish with the protein of your choice. Stir often until peppers are soft; this will also prevent the garlic from burning too fast. Remove the peppers from the pan and place in a serving dish.

Stuffed peppers and garlic fried haloumi step by step

Fry off diced onions and mushrooms with 2 cloves of garlic until soft/browned.
Meanwhile, boil rice in saucepan.
Chop top of pepper off and de - seed, throw away stalk and set aside. Add any spare bits of pepper to the onions and mushrooms..
Add drained rice and sweetcorn to pan with onions and mushrooms in and pour in chopped tomatoes.
Add salt and pepper, basil and dried herbs..
Place peppers on baking tray and fill with the tomato sauce/rice mix..
Bake for 20 mins at 200°F. Take out of oven and cover tops of peppers with grated cheddar. Return to bake for a further 20 mins..
When peppers are almost done, heat olive oil and garlic clove in a frying pan and fry the slices of haloumi cheese, 3 mins or until slightly browned each side..
Remove peppers from the oven and serve with haloumi cheese or salad..

These halloumi fries are similar to mozzarella sticks - made by rolling cheese in flour, eggs and panko breadcrumbs, then oven-baked until golden and crispy. These delicious stuffed peppers are easy to make and perfect for the whole family. Top with squidgy halloumi and watch them disappear in minutes. Stir in the grains to coat in the meat sauce. Season with salt and pepper and spoon into the pepper halves.