Croatian Stuffed Peppers In Tomato Sauce Recipes

CROATIAN STUFFED PEPPERS IN TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix ground beef, egg, rice, bread crumbs, and onion powder together in a large bowl.
• Pack the ground beef mixture into the green bell peppers, eliminating all air pockets. Form the remaining beef mixture into large balls.
• Combine water, tomato sauce, tomato paste, salt, black pepper, and garlic powder in a Dutch oven; bring to a boil. Carefully lower peppers and meatballs into the sauce with a slotted spoon. Bring back to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, until beef is cooked through and rice is tender, about 1 hour.
• Mix sour cream and flour together in a small bowl. Slowly stir in some of the sauce. Pour into the Dutch oven and mix well. Simmer until flavors combine, 3 to 4 minutes more.

CROATIAN STUFFED GREEN PEPPERS ("PUNJENA PAPRIKA")

Steps:

• Wash green peppers and cut the stem part to open a hole and to remove seeds part.
• Sauté finely minced onion on lard. When transparent remove from heat and add grounded beef and pork.
• Cook rice until half done and add into meat. Also add 1 whole egg, salt and pepper. Mix well into a compact stuffing.
• Stuff each green pepper with stuffing until full (Surplus of stuffing use as meat balls to cook with peppers).
• In a pot melt lard and sauté flour until brownish. Add tomato strained juice, salt and sugar. Add water if needed.
• Roast each green pepper in a frying pan on some oil making sure they don't over burn. Put each peppers into a sauce and cook 60 minutes. At the end you can add sour cream.

HOMESTYLE STUFFED PEPPERS

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
• Cook the peppers in boiling water until softened, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Remove peppers from boiling water and rinse with cold water; set peppers aside to drain.
• Mix together ground beef, cooked white rice, lightly beaten egg, finely chopped onion, Italian-style bread crumbs, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese in a large bowl until evenly mixed.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Divide beef and rice mixture among peppers; stuff each pepper with beef and rice mixture.
• Place peppers open side up in a 9x13-inch baking dish or shallow roasting pan.
• Combine tomato sauce and white vinegar in a bowl.
• Pour tomato mixture over stuffed peppers.
• Top with 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until heated through, basting the peppers two or three times while baking, about 80 minutes.