Spicy Stuffed Peppers

Spicy Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

  • 1 bulb Garlic (crushed)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger (chopped)
  • 1 Medium onion (finely chopped)
  • 1 Medium carrot (finely chopped)
  • salt to taste
  • Zest lemon
  • 60g sultanas
  • 60g dried aprcots (chopped)
  • 2 cardamon pods
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon chilli powder
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • 2 Medium tomatoes (roughly chopped)
  • 1 heaped teaspoon dried parsley
  • 1 heaped teaspoon dried coriander
  • 1 stalk celery (finely chopped)
  • 250g lamb (chopped)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 140g cooked rice
  • 2 red peppers
  • 2 yellow peppers
  • 2 green peppers

Directions

Step 1
First of all grind the garlic and ginger in either a pestle and mortar or a grinder with the salt until it is smooth.
Step 2
In a separate bowl add the garlic and ginger paste and then mix in the onion, carrot, sultanas, apricots, the spices, tomatoes, herbs, celery, lamb and olive oil - mix well.
Step 3
Now place all the mixture into a pan and cover and cook for 20mins.
Step 4
Whilst the lamb mixture is cooking, cook the rice.
Step 5
Once the lamb mixture is cooked after 20mins, add the cooked rice and adjust the seasoning. Preheat the oven to 180 deg
Step 6
Slice the tops off of each pepper so that the tops can be used as lids and decore and remove seeds etc from the peppers and then spoon in the lamb stuffing mixture into each pepper and place the lid on top.
Step 7
Place the peppers in an ovenproof dish and bake for 25 minutes then serve