Active Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 90 minutes
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Number of Servings: 6
Ingredients for Beef Stuffing
6 bell peppers (variety of colors)
Vegetable oil
8 cloves of garlic
2 chopped onions
1 pound of ground beef
1 bunch of cilantro (save a small amount for the sauce)
3/4 cup of rice
1/2 tablespoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of black pepper
1/4 teaspoon of baharat (Middle Eastern spice blend)
Ingredients for Stuffed Pepper With Beef Sauce
6 tomatoes
1 chopped onion
Veggie oil
Salt (to taste)
Crushed red pepper flakes (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon crushed ginger
Small bunch of cilantro
Cooking Instructions for Beef Stuffing
- Sautee the garlic and onion with a small amount of oil in a frying pan. Add the beef and cilantro (leave a bit of cilantro for the sauce)
- When the beef turns brown, mix in the rice, salt, baharat, and black pepper
- Add 1/2 cup of water, and bring to a boil
- Lower the heat, cover the pan, and simmer the beef and rice mixture for 6-7 minutes
- Cut the tops of the peppers off, clean out the seeds, and set aside the pepper tops
- Fill the peppers with the beef and rice mixture, leaving a bit of room at the top of each pepper
Cooking Instructions for Sauce
- Blend the 6 tomatoes in a blender or food processor, and strain the blended tomatoes
- Sautee 1 onion with small amount of oil in an oven safe pot (cast iron works great!)
- Add the blended tomatoes to the pot, along with 1 cup of water, salt, red pepper flakes, and ginger
- Bring the blended tomato sauce to a boil, and add your remaining cilantro
- Pour 2 spoons of the tomato mixture into each pepper, cover the peppers with their tops, and place the stuffed peppers in the pot
- Cover the pot, and cook on the stove on a low flame for 30 minutes
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees
- Transfer the pot of stuffed peppers with beef into the oven, and bake for 30 minutes
That’s it! Enjoy your Israeli stuffed peppers with beef!
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I used to make a dish quite similar to this not knowing that it is popular in Israel. I am now hungry thinking about it! Good pics.
Yes, it’s a very popular dish in Israel. There are variations to the recipe, but this is my favorite one!