Stuffed Bell Peppers with Tomato Sauce.
You can have Stuffed Bell Peppers with Tomato Sauce using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Stuffed Bell Peppers with Tomato Sauce
- You need 5 of bell peppers (little smaller than a medium).
- Prepare 1 lb of ground pork.
- You need 1 of medium onion minced.
- You need 1 of small carrot minced.
- You need 2 of big cloves or 4 medium cloves of garlic minced.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of breadcrumbs.
- You need 1 of egg.
- Prepare of Some crushed nuts (your choice).
- It's of Salt and pepper.
Stuffed Bell Peppers with Tomato Sauce instructions
- Cut bell peppers into half, length wise. Remove seeds. Mince onion. For carrot, I used a peeler to peel for thin strips and then mince them. I found it easier than to do It with a knife..
- In a mixing bowl, put pork, half of minced onion, half of minced garlic, breadcrumbs, nuts, egg and some salt (about 1/2 TBS and a pinch) and pepper for seasonings. Mix well..
- Sprinkle some flour inside the peppers. Stuff peppers with ground pork..
- Brown peppers upside down first in a frying pan with some olive oil on medium high for 2 minutes. Then, turn them over and brown the bottom also for 2 minutes. Remove peppers from pan..
- Turn down heat to medium low, add a little more of olive oil, put in the rest of minced onion and garlic. Cook until onion is translucent, pour the sauce in and stir for few seconds to mix the onion and garlic well with sauce. Arrange the bell peppers into the pan. Pour some sauce over the peppers. (Repeat this step few more times during the simmering). Cover lid and simmer for 30 minutes..