Mains

Stuffed Peppers

There are plenty of "Stuffed" dishes in the Bulgarian repertoire and stuffed peppers leads the line. It is possibly the easiest to make (yes in comparison to stuffed vine leaves or sour kraut :))

Super tasty and super filling, great hearty dish!

  • Prep time45
  • Cooking time90
  • DifficultyMedium
  • Servings6

Ingredients

8 (or so) green or red round capsicums

1 & half tea cups of round white rice

500 grams of mince (pork or beef or mix)

1 onion, chopped finely

5 garlic cloves, chopped finely

Half a tin of tomatoes – chopped

Oil for frying

Salt and black pepper to taste

Plain yogurt for serving (optional)

Steps

  1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees C.
  2. Get a few capsicums out and make sure that they fit in a baking dish semi-tightly, add or take away so that you are able to line them up in the dish without any loose space between them.
  3. Wash the capsicums and remove their tops, so that they can be filled.
  4. Prepare the mixture: in a frying pan, heat the oil, brown the onion and then the mince, as if cooking pasta sauce.
  5. Add the garlic, chopped tomatoes and the rice and stir through for about a minute.
  6. Take off the stove and add salt and ground back pepper.
  7. Fill the capsicums with the mixture. filling almost to the top.
  8. Place them all in a baking dish and make sure that they are going to stand up, so there isn’t loose space between them.
  9. Add water by filling each capsicum until you can see the water reach the top of the mice and rice mixture.
  10. Add and additional cup of water to the bottom of the baking dish.
  11. Bake for about 90 minutes. The idea is to make sure the rice is cooked.
  12. Serve with plain yogurt or just by themselves. You can split each capsicum in half before serving.

This is a bit fiddly to make but definitely worth it!

Equipment

Frying pan

Baking dish

Steps in pics