Stuffed Red Bell Peppers With Rice, Pine Nuts And Currants - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3 onions, finely chopped
3/4 cup long-grain white rice
1/4 cup pine nuts
2 tablespoons raisins
2 small tomatoes, chopped
1 -2 tablespoon of fresh mint or 2 teaspoons dried mint
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
salt and pepper
2 3/4 cups vegetable broth
6 -7 small red peppers (total weight about 1-1 1/3 kg.)

Preparation

Heat 3 T olive oil in a saute pan, add onions and saute over medium heat for 10 minutes. Add rice and pine nuts and stir 5 minutes over low heat. Add currants, tomatoes, mint, allspice, sugar, lemon juice, salt and pepper; cook 2 minutes.
Add 1 1/4 cups broth and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over low heat for 12 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.
Taste and adjust seasoning; rice will be only partially cooked.
Preheat oven to 175\u00b0C Cut a slice off stem end of peppers, leaving stem on. Reserve slice; remove core and seeds from inside pepper.
Spoon stuffing into peppers and cover with reserved slices.
Stand them in a baking dish in which they just fit.
Add 1 1/2 cups broth or hot water to dish.
Sprinkle peppers with 2T oil.
Cover and bake for 1 hour or until peppers are tender, basting occasionally and adding a little more water if needed.