Time
0 min
Serving
6 persons
Calories
273
Since I am Greek, I have learned many good Greek recipes over the years! This is one of my favorites. It's a savory combination of lamb, rice and feta cheese stuffed into sweet green bell peppers and smothered with tomato sauce.
Ingredients
- olive oil: 1 Tbsp
- medium onion: 1 piece (chopped)
- clove garlic: 1 piece (minced)
- medium green bell peppers: 6 piece
- fresh dill: 2 Tbsp (chopped)
- salt: 0.75 tsp
- ground allspice: 0.5 tsp
- ground black pepper: 0.5 tsp
- rice: 1 cup (cooked)
- ounces ground lamb: 8 piece
- crumbled feta cheese: 1 cup
- tomato sauce: 1 cup
- water: 1 cup (cold)
- lemon juice: 1 Tbsp (fresh)
- white sugar: 1 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
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Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium heat, add onion and cook for four minutes until soft. Stir in garlic and cook one minute.
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Slice tops off peppers and remove seeds. Stand peppers upright in a a 9x12-inch baking dish.
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In large bowl, combine onion mixture, dill, salt, allspice and pepper. Mix in rice and lamb, fold in feta cheese. Stuff peppers with mixture.
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Mix tomato sauce with water, lemon juice and sugar. Pour half over peppers, and half over bottom of dish. Cover with foil.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Uncover and continue baking 15 minutes, basing occasionally with sauce, until a meat thermometer inserted in center of filling reads 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
