Stuffed Peppers
Origin: Madrid, Spain
Source: Anonymous, 1921
Ingredients
- small bell peppers
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 small handful parsley
- salt
- 4 ounces veal
- 2 ounces jamón (cured ham)
- 2 onions
- 1 egg, beaten
- flour or tomato sauce
Instructions
- Cut off the top of each small bell pepper and remove the seeds.
- Prepare a picadillo (minced filling) by combining finely minced garlic, parsley, salt, veal, jamón (cured ham), and onions.
- Bind the mixture with a beaten egg.
- Stuff each pepper with this mixture.
- Sauté the stuffed peppers in a pan.
- Transfer them to a cooking pot.
- Cover the peppers with a sauce made either from flour or from tomato.
- Simmer them in the sauce.
- Note: Zucchini may be prepared in the same manner.