Serbian stuffed peppers
Peppers filled with beef mince and rice, flavoured with paprika. This is my Serbian grandmother's recipe slightly adapted over the generations and has been a family and friends favourite ever since. Very economical to make and bursting with flavour. Serve with crusty bread to mop up the delicious juices.
Ingredients
Serves: 2
- 250g lean beef mince
- 1 medium onion, very finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 225ml water
- 1 tin Heinz tomato soup
- 1 squirt tomato puree
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 large peppers
- 1 small handful long grain rice
- olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:1hr20min ›
Ready in:1hr30min
- Heat the oil in a large pan and cook the chopped onions until just turning light brown. Add the garlic and mince, half a squirt of puree and 1 tsp of paprika, stir well. Add the rice and half cup of water, and seasoning to taste and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Whilst thats cooking clean and cut the tops off the peppers, using a spoon remove the insides including the seeds. Check the bottom of the pepper as sometimes there is a little (3 - 4mm) black stalk, this should be removed as can be a little bitter.
- When the mince filling is cooked you can then stuff the peppers by pressing the mince filling in with a spoon and filling to the top.
- Place the stuffed peppers in the pan, add the Heinz Tomato Soup and the other half cup of water, a half squirt of puree and a teaspoon of paprika, salt and pepper to taste.
- Heat up and simmer gently with the lid on for 30 minutes, now carefully turn the peppers and cook for another 30 minutes, thats it! Serve in a large bowl or lipped dinner plate with some fresh crusty bread.
- * sometimes the filling escapes a little into the pan - don't worry as this does not alter the dish.
Substitution
You can alter the ratio of mince to rice to spread further if desired.
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Years ago, a multi-milionaire Canadian businessman told me his meal ever was stuffed peppers made with beef, rice and Heinz tomato soup - so I tried this - and he was right. Yum, yum! - 24 Sep 2012
was looking for a Bulgarian recipe and this was the nearest and yummy so next time made it with cumin and savory added (as they are traditional in Bulgarian cooking) and a wee bit more paprika and it was perfect! thank you - 21 Feb 2013
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