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Stuffed Peppers - Sweet and Sour

Here's how you make Stuffed Peppers - Sweet and Sour
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  • Servings: 5
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 2h
    • The following recipe serves 5 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 6 large green bell peppers
  • 1/2 pound lean ground beef
  • 1/2 pound ground veal (or more ground beef)
  • 1/3 cup dry rice
  • 1 medium yellow onion, grated
  • 1 clove garlic, minced finely
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • 2 cups tomato sauce
  • 2 cups beef broth
  • 6 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 6 tablespoons vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons paprika
  • Salt and pepper
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Cut off the stem end on the peppers and seed them - rinse.

  • Step 2: In a heavy dutch oven, boil water and blanch the peppers for 3 minutes - then remove the peppers and let cool- pour the hot water off.

  • Step 3: In the same dutch oven make the sauce- mix the tomato sauce, broth, tomato paste, sugar, vinegar and paprika together- sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste - heat the sauce over medium, stirring.

  • Step 4: While the sauce is heating, mix the ground meat, rice, egg, onion and garlic- sprinkle with salt and pepper- stuff each pepper with the meat mix.

  • Step 5: Place the stuffed peppers in the dutch oven - spoon sauce over each pepper- cover the pot and simmer for 1 hour - spoon the sauce over the top frequently.

  • Step 6: Preheat the oven to 350F - place the covered dutch oven in the oven and spoon the sauce over the top- bake for 30 minutes.

  • Step 7: Uncover the dutch oven and spoon more sauce over the tops - bake uncovered for another 20 minutes .

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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