Attempting to cut/paste a recipe into my blog -

STUFFED GREEN PEPPERS WITH MEAT

Serving Size: 4

Cuisine: Turkish

-= Ingredients =-

2 medium onions

1 clove garlic

1 tablespoon olive oil

3/4 cup water ; hot

2 tablespoon rice

2 pounds green peppers ; small and thin skinned, if possible

3/4 pound ground meat

1 bunch chopped dill

1 bunch mint dried or fresh

3 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. pepper

2 tablespoon dolma bahar (a blend of nutmeg, black pepper, coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, paprika, and chili powder - you can find this in Middle East markets or make your own according to your taste)

2 lg. tomatoes

~~ -- COOKING LIQUID -- ~~

2 tablespoon Margarine

2 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon tomato paste

1 1/2 cups Water ; hot

-= Instructions =-

Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. Add ¾ cup hot water and rice - cook 10 min.

Slice the lids off the peppers at a level that you can replace them after stuffing. Clean insides of peppers.

Add meat, dill, mint, pepper, and 1 tsp. salt, and dolma bahar to the sauted onion and garlic and knead for 5 min. Peel, seed, chop tomatoes and add. Stuff peppers. In pan, add 2 tbsp. margarine, 2 tsp. salt, tomato paste and 1-1 ½ glass water (to the mid-level of the stuffed peppers). Cook on stove top 40-60 min. Serve hot. Watch for evaporation of water - add if necessary.