Stuffed Banana Peppers Recipe

Craving something really good? Try these Czech-style stuffed sweet banana peppers with bread dumplings and sweet tomato sauce. It is a very tasty but easy recipe perfect for summer when there are a lot of peppers available both from your own garden and the farmers' market.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Czech

Keyword Ground meat recipes, Vegetable Recipes

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 10

Servings

Calories 210kcal

Author Petra Kupská

Ingredients

7 banana peppers
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
5 ounces ground beef (140 g)
5 ounces ground pork (140 g)
3 eggs
1.1/2 teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon black pepper ground
1 cup cooked rice cold
⅓ cup dry breadcrumb (50 g)
1 cup water for pouring to a baking dish
1 Tablespoon lard or unsalted butter, to grease a baking dish

Instructions

Make the stuffing: Cook the rice and let it cool completely. Peel and finely chop the onion. Crush the peeled garlic. Put both types of minced meat, eggs, and breadcrumbs in a large mixing bowl. Add the cooled rice, garlic, salt, and pepper. Quickly and thoroughly work all ingredients into a meat mixture.
Wash the peppers, cut off the top with the stem and scrape out the seeds from inside the pods.
Fill the prepared pepper pods with the mixture. This is best done with a long-handled spoon. Press the stuffing slightly.
Grease a baking dish with a tablespoon of lard and put the filled pepper pods in it. Pour a cup of water over them.
Roast the peppers in a preheated oven at 356°F/180 °C (lower and upper heating) for about 40 minutes. During this time, the tops of the banana peppers turn slightly golden. Pour a cup of water or stock over the peppers; baste the peppers with the stock about twice during cooking.
While the peppers are roasting, make tomato sauce.

Notes

Serve about 3-4 slices of bread dumplings and one ladle of tomato sauce with one stuffed pepper.
Best sides: The best accompaniment to stuffed peppers is Czech bread dumplings or steamed rice.
If you have leftover meat stuffing and you don't have peppers anymore, make it into a roll and bake it with the peppers in a baking dish.
Quick fix: If you don't want to make extra tomato sauce from scratch, use any ready-made sweet tomato sauce for pasta, e. g., marinara sauce.

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