Stuffed Bell Peppers

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 35min
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Bell peppers stuffed with a fresh ground meat filling are a recipe featuring crisp vegetables from the fruit-vegetable category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 4 red and yellow bell pepper halves
  • 400 g mixed ground beef
  • 2 tbsp clarified butter
  • 1 finely chopped onion
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 1 egg
  • 100 g cooked rice
  • Salt
  • ground black pepper
  • 500 g tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • Salt
  • ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Cut a lid off the bell pepper halves, remove seeds and wash them.

  2. 2.

    Sauté the onion in hot clarified butter, press in garlic, add the meat and cook until crumbly, season with salt and pepper, then let cool.

  3. 3.

    Mix the ground meat mixture with egg and rice, fill the peppers.

  4. 4.

    Wash tomatoes, roughly chop and bring to a boil with 1/8 l water, season with salt and pepper, simmer gently for about 30 minutes. Then strain through a sieve.

  5. 5.

    Whisk butter into foam, stir in flour, sauté briefly, then add the strained tomatoes and whisk into a sauce, adjust seasoning.

  6. 6.

    Place peppers in a casserole dish, pour tomato sauce over them and steam in the oven at 200°C for about 25 minutes.