Stuffed Piquillo Peppers
Piquillo peppers filled with tuna and baked in sauce.
Ingredients
- 1 tin Piquillo peppers
- 2 tin Tinned tuna
- ½ Onion
- 200 g Canned tomatoes
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 3 tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ tsp Salt
Method
- Heat the oven to 190C (375F).
- Warm the olive oil in a pan, add the garlic and cook until fragrant, then add the canned tomatoes and salt and simmer into a smooth tomato-garlic sauce.
- While the sauce simmers, finely chop the onion.
- While the sauce simmers, drain and flake the tuna, then mix it with the chopped onion.
- Once the sauce is ready, stuff the piquillo peppers with the tuna-onion mixture.
- Nestle the stuffed piquillos into the sauce in a baking dish.
- Bake until hot and bubbling.
- Serve warm.
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About Stuffed Piquillo Peppers
Stuffed piquillo peppers, or pimientos rellenos, are a Spanish tapa that puts the country's prized piquillo pepper to work as an edible vessel. Piquillos are small, sweet peppers from Navarra, roasted and peeled before they're jarred, which gives them a gentle smoky sweetness and a supple flesh perfect for filling. This version stuffs them with tinned tuna bound with chopped onion, a humble, protein-rich pairing common along the Spanish coast, then bakes the peppers nestled in a simple tomato-garlic sauce until hot and bubbling.
The appeal is the contrast between the soft, sweet peppers, the savory tuna filling, and the bright tomato sauce that surrounds them and turns them into a proper baked dish rather than a cold plate. Making the sauce first and reducing it into something smooth around the garlic gives the peppers a flavorful bed to bake in and soak up. It's a straightforward assembly that leans almost entirely on pantry and jarred ingredients, coming together in about 35 minutes. Serve it warm as an appetizer or a light main, with bread to mop up the tomato-garlic sauce left in the dish.
Stuffed Piquillo Peppers: frequently asked questions
How many calories are in Stuffed Piquillo Peppers?
A serving has about 229 calories — 15.9g protein, 7.2g carbs, 15.2g fat, 1.8g fiber. Figures are estimated from the ingredient amounts and will shift with your portions and brands.
Is Stuffed Piquillo Peppers gluten-free?
Based on its ingredients, Stuffed Piquillo Peppers has no gluten-containing components, so it's naturally gluten-free — as always, check that any packaged ingredients you use are certified gluten-free to be safe.
How long does Stuffed Piquillo Peppers take to make?
About 35 minutes start to finish, but only around 21 of those are hands-on — the rest is largely unattended cooking time you can step away from. In the Homecooked app the timers and parallel steps are sequenced for you so the hands-on part feels even shorter.
How many servings does Stuffed Piquillo Peppers make?
This recipe makes 4 servings. In the app you can scale it up or down and the ingredient amounts adjust automatically.