Croatian Stuffed Green Peppers (“Punjena Paprika”) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1500 g green peppers (8 to 10 pieces)
250 g beef (grounded)
250 g pork (grounded)
30 g lard
10 g onions
50 g rice
1 egg
For sauce
500 g tomato juice (strained tomato juice)
40 g lard
40 g flour (all purpose)
20 g sugar
100 g sour cream (optional)

Preparation

Wash green peppers and cut the stem part to open a hole and to remove seeds part.
Saute 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 saute 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.