Stuffed Peppers - Sweet and Sour
Created by natsgarden123 on September 2, 2014
- Servings: 5
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 2h
- Recipe #14133
Ingredients
- 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
How to Make
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Step 1: Cut off the stem end on the peppers and seed them - rinse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Step 7: Uncover the dutch oven and spoon more sauce over the tops - bake uncovered for another 20 minutes .
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (699.8 g)
- Calories 456.1
- Total Fat - 16.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.7 g
- Cholesterol - 149 mg
- Sodium - 1170.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 46.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7.6 g
- Sugars - 31.5 g
- Protein - 32.8 g
- Calcium - 88.6 mg
- Iron - 5.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 192.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg