Stuffed Peppers*

Ingredients:

        For the mixture to stuff the peppers:

125 grams minced meat (beef and lamb mixed)

3/4 cup of white rice

1 medium tomato (peeled and finely chopped)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

A small onion chopped

1 tea spoon of salt, paprika, black pepper, dried mint, sumac

        For the sauce:

1 table spoon of tomato and pepper paste

1 head of garlic (half of it minced)

Enough water to cover the peppers (around 4 cups)

1 table spoon of pomegranate sauce

2 tea spoons of salt

1 tea spoon of dried spoon and paprica

       And of course:

10/11 big green peppers

            

                                 Our very green peppers.

       

Instructions:

Cut the peppers' heads and take the seeds out but don't throw the heads away. 

For the mixture, add all the ingredients into a bowl and knead dough until you have a homogenous mixture

Stuff 2/3 of each pepper with the mixture, place them vertically into a deep pan and cover them with the heads of the peppers. 

            

                                                      The mixture

    

                

                                                 That's how you stuff the peppers.

For the sauce, place the garlic, tomato and pepper paste and 3-4 cups of hot water into a bowl and mix them.

           

Ready to be cooked with its delicious sauce.

After placing the stuffed peppers, pour the sauce on it and cook it around 50-60 minutes on the stove.

And finally on the table with salad and -of course- flowers.

                                                       Bon appetit!

                                                                      

                     

*Stuffed peppers means Biber Dolması in Turkish.