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Speca të Mbushur (Albanian Stuffed Peppers)

Speca të Mbushur is a traditional Albanian family dish where sweet peppers are filled with savoury minced meat and rice.

As they cook, the peppers soften and soak up the tomato sauce, giving you a hearty one-pot meal that is perfect with bread or a simple salad.

Ingredients

  • Black Pepper, to taste
  • 6 Sweet Peppers tops removed and deseeded
  • Salt, to taste
  • 2 tbsp Parsley chopped
  • 1 Onion finely chopped
  • 1 tsp Paprika
  • 500 ml Tomato Sauce
  • 250 g Minced Beef
  • 100 g Rice rinsed

Method

20m45m1h 5m
  1. Sauté onion and minced beef until browned.
  2. Stir in rice, parsley, paprika, salt and pepper.
  3. Stuff the peppers with the filling.
  4. Arrange in a pot or baking dish and pour tomato sauce around.
  5. Simmer covered or bake for about 45 minutes until peppers are soft and rice is cooked.

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