Stuffed Green Peppers

Recipe origin: Hungary

Ingredients

• 3 Tablespoons rice
• 6 green peppers
• 1 medium-sized onion, finely-chopped
• 2 Tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 pound ground meat
• 1 egg
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 2½ cups tomato sauce

Procedure

1. Simmer rice in 5 Tablespoons water for 10 minutes.
2. Cut off the top of the peppers at the stem and scoop out the seeds.
3. Sauté onion in butter until transparent.
4. Remove from pan and mix with meat, rice, egg, salt, and pepper.
5. Fill green peppers with meat mixture.
6. Bring tomato sauce to a boil, add peppers and simmer well covered 1 hours or until peppers are tender.

Serves 6.