Recipe
Stuffed Moroccan Peppers
Bell peppers filled with seasoned rice and meat or vegetables bring a familiar home-style format to Moroccan flavors. This is a balanced main course with broad appeal.
Instructions
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Step 1
Preheat the oven to 190°C.
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Step 2
On the cutting board, finely chop the yellow onion and mince the garlic clove with the chef's knife. Keep the prepared peppers separate from the raw lamb.
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Step 3
Heat 20.0 ml olive oil in a 28 cm skillet over medium heat. Add the yellow onion and garlic clove, soften for 4 minutes, then add the ground lamb, ground cumin, paprika, ground cinnamon, and 4.0 gr salt; sauté until the lamb is browned throughout, about 8 minutes.
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Step 4
Stir the long-grain rice, 200.0 gr crushed tomato, and water into the browned lamb in the skillet, combining evenly without cooking the rice separately. Remove the skillet from the heat.
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Step 5
Coat one 33 x 23 cm baking dish with 10.0 ml olive oil and spread in the remaining 200.0 gr crushed tomato. Stir the remaining 4.0 gr salt into the filling, pack it into the 4 bell pepper pieces to about three-quarters full, and place them upright in the dish with their reserved tops over them.
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Step 6
Bake the covered peppers in the oven at 190°C for 45 minutes, until the rice is tender and the peppers are yielding. Check the center of the filling with the food thermometer; it must reach at least 71°C.
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Step 7
Rest the stuffed peppers in the baking dish for 5 minutes before serving.
Nutrition (Estimated)
Food safety
Caution: medium
Cook the ground beef and stuffed peppers thoroughly, and avoid cross-contaminating other foods with the raw meat mixture.
Risk factors
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- cross_contamination