Recipe
Arab Stuffed Vegetables
Posted by : unknown
Preparation time : 1 Hrs 0 Min
Cooking time : 40 Min
Level of difficulty : Medium
Ingredients
4 servings
- 3 tomatoes
- 6 sweet peppers
- 6 onions
- 4 cups oil
- 4 cups rice
- 1/2 cup tomato paste
- celery leaves, chopped
- 1/2 kg ground beef
- 1/2 cup butter
- Salt to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- some cabbage leaves
Preparation
- Wash all vegetables. Slice round the top of tomatoes and set aside, scoop out all pulp and put in a bowl. Do the same with sweet pepper. Reserve tops as cover.
- Sprinkle some water inside tomatoes . Peel onions and cut lengthwize on one side . Press each onion between the palms of hands to separate layers. The smaller inner layers can be chopped.
- Heat 1/2 of oil, saute onion until slightly tender, but not brown. Wash rice and add to onion . Add tomato paste, vegetable pulp, chopped onion, chopped celery and cumin seeds.
- In another skillet, heat remaining oil, add beef and fry till cooked. Add beef mixture to rice mixure. Add butter, salt, and chili powder. Mix very well. Fill onions, tomatoes and peppers with mixture and cover them with vegetable tops tightly, set aside.
- Spread some cabbage leaves in a large and wide pan. Arrange first layer of stuffed onions, individually wrapped in cabbage leaves tightly. Arrange tomato layer on top of onions, repeat using sweet pepper .
- Cover vegetables with a very heavy plate and place another heavy weight on top of the plate. Pour 3 cups water into the pan and cook on medium heat for 30-40 minutes. Leave on very low heat for some time until done.
