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Peppers Stuffed with Meat and Rice in a Pot with Grated Carrot and Tomatoes
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Peppers Stuffed with Meat and Rice in a Pot with Grated Carrot and Tomatoes

The way it's cooked at home in one pot on the stove: the peppers stand packed tightly, and the grated carrot and tomatoes above them cook into a sweet layer that covers the filling. The mix of red and light green peppers gives sweetness and a little bitterness in the same pot.

⏱ 1 hr 45 min🍽 6 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

  1. 1
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, paprika, baharat, allspice, rice, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 2
    Cut the cap off the peppers and remove the seeds. Chop the caps and set them aside.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 3
    Fill the peppers with the mixture up to ¾ full: the rice swells as it cooks.
    💡Fill only three-quarters full: the uncooked rice swells inside the vegetable, and a full filling gets pushed out.
  3. 4
    Heat the oil in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 3 minutes. Add the tomato paste and stock and stir until the paste dissolves.
    StoveWide, shallow pot
  4. 5
    Stand the peppers upright in the pot, openings up, packed close together so they don't tip over.
    Wide, shallow pot
  5. 6
    Scatter the carrot and tomatoes over the peppers and in the gaps.
  6. 7
    Heat the oil in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 3 minutes. Add the tomato paste and stock and stir until the paste dissolves.
    ⚙ SimmeringStoveLid
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  7. 8
    Halfway through cooking, spoon a little of the liquid over the peppers.
  8. 9
    Remove the lid for the last 10 minutes so the sauce reduces.
  9. 10
    Serve hot with the carrots and tomatoes from the pot.
360calories
16 gprotein
29 gcarbs
18 gfat
● protein 18%● carbs 34%● fat 48%

Per serving (390 g), of 6 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Lid · Also works: Aluminum foil (tight aluminum foil) · Plate (an upside-down plate)
  • Wide, shallow pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (Layers instead of a single layer)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)

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🧩 Built from…

Meatball mix → Stuffed vegetables

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