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Punjene Paprike

Name: Punjene Paprike
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Serbia
Ingredients: 8 (large) Green Bell Pepper; 400g Mixed ground meat; 80g Rice; 1 Onion; 1 can Canned tomatoes; 2 tsp Paprika; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 2 tbsp Sunflower oil; 1 tbsp All-Purpose Flour; 400ml Water; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Peppers stuffed with ground meat and rice and simmered in tomato sauce — a Balkan home dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Punjene paprike are stuffed peppers loved in Serbia and across the Balkans. They're filled with ground meat, rice, and onion and simmered gently in tomato sauce. From summer into autumn, when peppers are cheap, every household makes a big pot, eaten with sour cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Serbian home at the end of summer, a big pot is packed with stuffed peppers and the scent of tomato fills the kitchen.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Green Bell Pepper 8 (large)
Mixed ground meat 400g
Rice 80g
Onion 1
Canned tomatoes 1 can
Paprika 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sunflower oil 2 tbsp
All-Purpose Flour 1 tbsp
Water 400ml
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut off the pepper tops and remove the seeds.
Sauté the chopped onion in oil and mix with the ground meat, rinsed rice, half the paprika, salt, and pepper.
Fill the peppers 80% full and cap with the tops.
Stand them in a pot, add the canned tomatoes, water, and remaining paprika, and simmer on low for 1 hour.
Thicken with flour mixed with a little cooking liquid and serve with sour cream.

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