Pepper Projectile Starter
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TypeStarter
Serves4 people
DateOctober 18, 2026
Sharp, stuffed peppers fly across your plate like projectiles: tension in taste and shape.
A sharp, elongated starter: grilled green peppers filled with lime sour cream, lying diagonally on a dark sauce streak as a flying object. The silhouette refers to the suspected projectile from the news, the flavors are tense and contrasting.
Ingredients
- 8 large green peppers (mild or hot to taste)
- 200 g sour cream
- 1 lime (juice and zest)
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 red onion
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp smoked paprika powder
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Salt and pepper
- 4 tbsp black bean sauce (or homemade from black beans, see tips)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (grill setting).
- Slice the peppers lengthwise, remove seeds, but keep the stem for the 'projectile effect'.
- Mix the sour cream with lime juice, zest, finely chopped garlic, salt and pepper.
- Slice the red onion into thin half rings and mix with vinegar and a pinch of salt, let sit.
- Brush the peppers with olive oil, sprinkle with paprika, and grill 8-10 minutes until just soft and lightly charred.
- Let cool briefly, fill each pepper half generously with the sour cream mixture.
- Spread a streak of black bean sauce diagonally on each plate (the 'flight path').
- Place two filled peppers per plate, diagonally on the sauce, stems pointing in the same direction like flying projectiles.
- Garnish with pickled onion and extra lime zest if desired.
Serving notes
- Serve on a rectangular plate or slate for extra 'flight path' effect.
- Drizzle extra lime over the peppers just before serving.