stuffed peppers
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- noun
- /stʌft ˈpɛpərz/
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pimientos rellenos
- My mother taught me how to cook delicious stuffed peppers with herbs and spices.
- sauce over stuffed peppers
- Rice-Stuffed Peppers
My favorite household chore is cooking stuffed Peppers with my wife.
- My favorite household chore is cooking stuffed Peppers with my wife.
Examples
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Chili rellenos: stuffed peppers, deep-fried, covered with cheese and smothered in a red sauce, served with refried beans and Mexican rice.
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Here it is, stuffed pepper with cheese.
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I took advantage of red bell peppers being a third of the winter price and made stuffed peppers.
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My favorite household chore is cooking stuffed Peppers with my wife.
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For dinner, I made stuffed peppers filled with rice and ground beef.
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At the party, everyone enjoyed the savory stuffed peppers fresh out of the oven.
Synonyms
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A filling inside a stuffed food like a pepper or pastry
Small peppers filled with cheese and cooked as a spicy snack
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'stuff' (to fill) + 'peppers' (the capsicum fruit); it literally refers to peppers that have been filled with a mixture. This cooking construction is cross-linguistically common and follows normal noun + past-participle compounding, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The dish stuffed peppers comes from a simple kitchen idea: people hollow out bell peppers and fill them with rice, meat or vegetables, then bake or cook them. The image of a pepper being stuffed like a small bag helps you remember that the name means 'peppers filled and cooked'.