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🍽️ Grandma's Stuffed Peppers with Minced Meat

370 kcal · 70 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 10 pointed peppers, yellow (depending on size, possibly more)
• 500 g minced meat, mixed
• 100 g rice (cooked)
• 1 egg
• 1 onion
• 1 clove garlic
• salt and pepper, black (from the mill)
• paprika powder
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp flour
• 500 ml vegetable broth
• 1 small can tomato paste
• a little sugar

Instructions

1. 1. Take a large bowl.
2. 2. Add the minced meat, the pre-cooked rice, the egg, the finely chopped onion, and the garlic to the bowl.
3. 3. Work all ingredients together with your hands or a spoon until you have a uniform mixture.
4. 4. Season the meat mixture generously with the specified spices.
5. 5. Stuff the empty pepper pods with the meat mixture.
6. 6. Take the remaining meat residue from the bowl.
7. 7. Shape them into small round meatballs.
8. 8. Take a pot.
9. 9. Melt the butter in it.
10. 10. Stir the flour into the melted butter.
11. 11. Toast the flour mixture briefly.
12. 12. Deglaze the mixture with the vegetable broth.
13. 13. Stir in the tomato paste.
14. 14. Let the sauce come to a boil briefly.
15. 15. Season the sauce with salt, pepper, and a pinch of sugar.
16. 16. Place the stuffed peppers into the sauce.
17. 17. Add the meatballs to the sauce as well.
18. 18. Braise the ingredients for about 40 minutes.
19. 19. Decide on the cooking method: Either on the stovetop or in the oven.
20. 20. If you use the oven, preheat it to 200 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
21. 21. Make sure the peppers do not get too dark.
22. 22. Cover them at the end if they are browning too much.
23. 23. Serve the finished peppers with a side of rice.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 370
• Protein: 23 g · Fett/Fat: 20 g · Carbs: 20 g