Author Notes
They look modest but their strength is the explosion of flavors: sweet yellow peppers filled with salted anchovies and capers, a slice of fresh tomato, slowly oven-roasted in olive oil and a touch of butter. Such an elementary taste does not even need salt or pepper.
I have been baking this appetizer for more than two decades and I have no clue where did I get the recipe from. It certainly has a strong Italian character, but I cannot tell, if I got the recipe from a friend, I read it on a food magazine – in pre-internet times - and whether I had added my own modification or not.
Yet, what I can claim for sure is that this works only with yellow bell peppers, because they are the sweetest of all.
—Cookingly Yours
Ingredients
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4
large yellow bell peppers
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12
anchovy fillets in olive oil
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1
medium tomato cut in thin slices
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2 tablespoons
capers
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3 tablespoons
extra virgin olive oil
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15
gr butter
Directions
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Preheat oven in 180 Celsius or in 365 Fahrenheit.
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Wash peppers and cut them following the ‘natural’ marking: each pepper usually cuts into three boat pieces.
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Remove stem, seeds and white membrane and place them in a baking tray.
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Fill each pepper 'boat' with one tomato slice, an anchovy fillet and 3-4 capers
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Drizzle with the olive oil and add a tiny piece of butter in the middle of each pepper wedge.
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Cover the tray bottom with water.
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Put the tray in the middle of the oven and roast for 50-60 minutes.
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It's ready when the peppers have kind of collapsed and their edges have some brown spots.
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Remove tray from oven, arrange peppers on a plate and drizzle with 3-4 tablespoon tray juices.
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Let the peppers cool in room temperatures for at least one hour.
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