Such an appetizer will certainly become a bright and memorable element. festive table. Multi-colored “light bulbs” from goat stuffed cheese peppers will not leave guests indifferent. Besides, even vegetarians can taste this Christmas treat. At adults will be able to recall childhood when on decorated Christmas tree, you could find different goodies. Only need pull the ribbon that peppers are tied to “гирлянде”. 
Time: 1hour. 15 minutes. Difficulty: medium Amount: 20 stuffed peppers The recipes use measured containers with a volume of: 1 glass (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cups (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp. l.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Contents
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 8 tbsp. cooked popcorn
- 20 multi-colored Bulgarian mini peppers with stems (approximately 450 gr.)
- 450 gr goat cheese
- 4 tsp fresh thyme leaves chopped
- 1 clove garlic, finely grated
- 4 large bundles of curly feces, for example, red Russian “, cut the stems, leaving young leaves
Recipe:
You will need:
A piece of non-waxed dental floss 3 m long without flavorings; sewing needle; chopstick; pastry bag with round a hole with a diameter of 0.3 cm in the tip; 9.1 m narrow decorative festive ribbon, for example, curly (1 cm wide); 3.7 m more wide decorative festive ribbon (less than 2.5 cm wide); polystyrene cone measuring 61 cm by 15 cm; round stand for a cake with a diameter of 30 cm, covered with gold foil Recipes with similar ingredients: sweet pepper, goat cheese, kale cabbage, thyme, popcorn
Recipe preparation:
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Garland of popcorn
Pass a non-waxed dental floss without fragrances 3 m long sewing needle. Tie a knot at one end. Thread the needle into more the soft part of the popcorn grains, not the hard shell (when stringing popcorn through the shell may crack). Take out thread from the needle and tie a knot at the end to make “beads” of popcorn.
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Garland of pepper
Make a small hole on one side with a chopstick pepper about 1 cm from the beginning of the stem. Try not to pierce vegetable on the other hand. Turn the stick to expand a little hole. Repeat with the remaining peppers.
- Stuffing peppers: mix goat cheese in a medium bowl with thyme, garlic, 1 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper to associations. Move into a pastry bag with a round hole 0.3 cm in diameter. Gently squeeze the cheese into each pepper through the hole made in it. Do not inject into vegetables too a lot of toppings, otherwise they may crack. Refrigerate until time of use (this cooking step can be completed in day before filing).
- Divide the leaves of the feces into small, medium and large. Beginning with bottom, cover the styrofoam cone measuring 61 cm by 15 cm the largest leaves, with their stems up. Apply leaves a little overlap and fix them with a toothpick, stuck in the widest place of the stem, leaving it to stick out about 1 cm. Continue to move up the cone in rows, moving from large leaves to smaller ones. Rows and single leaves should overlap a little. Continue until Only the last row will be completed. To form it, turn the stool leaves stems down and cover the top of the cone. Close up all exposed areas with peeling polystyrene foam. the remaining leaves. Keep in the refrigerator until will be ready to decorate.
- Make twenty lengths of narrow decorative ribbon 46 cm. Tie them around the stalks of peppers with a reliable knot.
- Wrap around the “tree” with a wide decorative ribbon 3.7 m long. Start from the bottom and move up. Attach pepper to wide ribbon on the “Christmas tree”, tying a decorative bow from a narrow ribbon. Vegetable should hang from a wide ribbon, being securely tied, but so, so that it can be easily untied and removed. Do the same with the rest of the peppers, placing them about 15 cm apart friend on a wide tape. Forming a garland, fix its coils on ends of toothpicks for support, inserting as needed additional. Continue until the tree is covered from all sides with peppers. Garnish with a garland of popcorn. Caution move to a round cake stand with a diameter of 30 cm, covered with gold foil.
