Hungarian Stuffed Pepper with Tomato Sauce is a classic and simple summer dish. We like it and make it when the peppers are in season.
When I was children, I hated the cooked peppers, but now, I love it and I stuff just a little bit (3 tablespoons) meat mix in the peppers. My kids also hate the cooked pepper, therefore for them I make big meatball that I cook in the tomato sauce
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
The Tomato Sauce
- 3 tablespoons plain flour
- 4 tablespoons sunflower (or canola) oil
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 700 grams tomato passata
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2,5 liters water
The Stuffed Peppers
- 6 Hungarian yellow wax pepper or red bell pepper
- 500 grams ground pork
- ½ cup rice (no cooked)
- 1 onion diced
- 1 egg
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon Hungarian paprika powder (sweet)
- ½ teaspoon marjoram
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
The Tomato Sauce
- In a large pan, heat vegetable oil, add the flour, stir constantly and fry it, until it turns light brown.
- Add the tomato pasta, stir, and the water. Stir it well. Add the sugar and the salt.
- Boil the tomato sauce meanwhile make the stuffed peppers.
The Stuffed Peppers
- Put the minced pork in the mixing bowl. Add the rice, the diced onion, the egg, the black pepper, the majoram, the paprika powder and the salt. Mix it well.
- Wash the peppers. Remove the pedicle and the seeds. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture.
- If tomato sauce boils, put the stuffed peppers (ant the meatballs) in the sauce. Cook it slowly 2 hours, sometimes stir carefully.
Notes
We eat the stuffed peppers with bread or by itself.