Croatian Stuffed Green Peppers (“punjena Paprika”)

Ingredients

• 1500 g green peppers (8 to 10 pieces)
• 250 g beef (grounded)
• 250 g pork (grounded)
• 30 g lard
• 10 g onions
• 50 g rice
• 1 egg

For sauce

• 500 g tomato juice (strained tomato juice)
• 40 g lard
• 40 g flour (all purpose)
• 20 g sugar
• 100 g sour cream (optional)

Directions

1. 1

   Wash green peppers and cut the stem part to open a hole and to remove seeds part.

2. 2

   Sauté finely minced onion on lard. When transparent remove from heat and add grounded beef and pork.

3. 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. 4

   Stuff each green pepper with stuffing until full (Surplus of stuffing use as meat balls to cook with peppers).

5. 5

   In a pot melt lard and sauté flour until brownish. Add tomato strained juice, salt and sugar. Add water if needed.

6. 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.