🇱🇾 Libya cuisine · #17

Libyan Stuffed Peppers

Libyan Stuffed Peppers
Time75 min
Serves6
Ingredients11

Peppers, tomatoes and onions stuffed with rice, meat and dried mint, cooked in a turmeric-tomato sauce.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Hollow out the peppers and tomatoes; blanch the onions and separate their layers.
  2. Mix rice, meat, parsley, mint and spices.
  3. Stuff the vegetables and pack into a pot.
  4. Pour over a tomato-turmeric sauce with water and simmer for 50 minutes.
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