David's Delicious Photoblog: Stuffed peppers with tomato-zucchini sauce

… is a dish which exists in different names and forms around the world. Green (or actually any colour) peppers stuffed with ground meat and rice and topped with a seasoned tomato-zucchini sauce is a very easy but tasty recipe. Personally I think I can present this recipe as one of many other typical Czech meals. It exists – of course – uncountable number of varieties – not only in Czech but in an international environment – stuffing with / without meat, with cheese, with crumbs dressing, with spices and herbs or with vegetables, rice or pasta; and sauces like classic dripping, tomatoes or creamy ones…
Ingredients and directions in my recipe are quite banal. One recommendation to the technological point of view: extended hand blending of ground meats secure a very nice and homogeneous structure of the stuffing and rice ensure a perfect volume.

Ingredients:

4 large peppers (colour doesn’t matter – classic is classic, but any colour make the dish more interesting).

Meat stuffing:

300g ground pork
300g ground beef
3 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp ground caraway seeds
1 tsp marjoram
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup rice

Sauce:

1 bigger onion
3 tbsp vegetable oil
4 tomatoes
1 small zucchini
3 cloves garlic
1 small chilli pepper
2 bay leaves
2 clove
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar

Directions:

1. Ground meats, eggs and spices mix very well in hands for about 20 minutes. Extended hand blending of ground meats secure a very nice and homogeneous structure of the stuffing

2. Add rice and blend one more time.

3. In the mean time chop onion, tomatoes and chilli pepper and in the roasting pan roast onion until light brown, add tomatoes, chilli, spices and sugar and cook until tomatoes are boiled to mash. Do not cover the pan – so the liquid can evaporate. In the end add cubes of zucchini and turn off the heat.