Croatian Stuffed Green Peppers (“punjena Paprika�)

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1500 g green peppers (8 to 10 pieces)
• 250 g beef (grounded)
• 250 g lamb (grounded)
• 30 g lard
• 10 g onions
• 50 g rice
• 1 egg
• 500 g tomato juice (strained tomato juice)
• 40 g lard
• 40 g flour (all purpose)
• 20 g sugar
• 100 g sour cream (optional)

Recipe

• 1 wash green peppers and cut the stem part to open a hole and to remove seeds part.
• 2 sauté finely minced onion on lard. when transparent remove from heat and add grounded beef and lamb.
• 3 cook rice until half done and add into meat. also add 1 whole egg, salt and pepper. mix well into a compact stuffing.
• 4 stuff each green pepper with stuffing until full (surplus of stuffing use as meat balls to cook with peppers).
• 5 in a pot melt lard and sauté flour until brownish. add tomato strained juice, salt and sugar. add water if needed.
• 6 roast each green pepper in a frying pan on some oil making sure they don’t over burn. put each peppers into a sauce and cook 60 minutes. at the end you can add sour cream.