🇵🇪 How to Make Rocoto Relleno

Craving Rocoto Relleno? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Rocoto Relleno at home, in about 1 hr 15 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 4 rocoto peppers (or large red peppers if you value your mouth)
• 300g beef mince
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 50g raisins and 50g chopped olives
• 2 boiled eggs, chopped
• 100g queso fresco
• 200ml evaporated milk, 1 egg

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Cut the tops off the rocotos and scoop out the seeds and all the white pith — that is where the heat lives.
2. Boil them in water with a spoon of sugar, three times, changing the water each time. Skip this and the dish is genuinely inedible.
3. Fry the onion, garlic and mince, then stir in the raisins, olives and boiled egg. Season well.
4. Stuff the peppers, top each with a slice of queso fresco and put the lids back on.
5. Sit them in a dish, pour round the evaporated milk beaten with the egg.
6. Bake at 180°C for 35 min until set and bubbling. Arequipa considers this a point of civic pride.