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Stuffed Banana Peppers Recipe

Craving something delicious? Try these Czech-style stuffed sweet banana peppers with bread dumplings and sweet tomato sauce. This tasty yet easy recipe is perfect for summer when peppers are plentiful, whether from your garden or the farmers' market.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Czech
Keyword Ground meat recipes, Vegetable Recipes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 7
Calories 210kcal
Author Petra Kupská

Ingredients

  • 7 banana peppers cleaned
  • 1 medium onion peeled and chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic peeled and finely minced
  • 5 ounces ground beef
  • 5 ounces ground pork
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • ⅔ cup rice
  • ⅓ cup dry breadcrumb
  • 1 cup water for pouring in a baking dish
  • 1 Tablespoon lard or unsalted butter, to grease a baking dish
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Instructions

  • Make the stuffing: Cook ⅔ cup rice and let it cool completely. Peel and finely chop 1 medium onion. Peel 2 cloves garlic and mince finely. In a large mixing bowl, combine 5 ounces ground beef and 5 ounces ground pork, 3 eggs, and ⅓ cup dry breadcrumb. Add the cooled rice, onions, and garlic. Season with 1 ½ teaspoons salt, and ½ teaspoon ground black pepper. Mix all the ingredients quickly and thoroughly until combined.
  • Wash 7 banana peppers, cut off the top with the stem and scrape out the seeds from inside the pods.
  • Fill the prepared pepper pods with the meaty mixture. This is best done with a long-handled spoon. Press the stuffing slightly.
  • Grease a baking dish with 1 Tablespoon lard and put the filled pepper pods in it. Pour 1 cup water over them.
  • Roast the peppers in a preheated oven at 360 °F (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.

Nutrition

Calories: 210kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 276mg | Potassium: 211mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 138IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 1mg