Stuffed Paprika is a classic Central European comfort dish, especially well known in Hungarian cuisine as töltött paprika. Sweet bell peppers are filled with a savory mixture of minced meat and rice, gently simmered in a lightly sweetened tomato sauce. It is traditionally served with boiled potatoes or fresh bread, making it a hearty, home-style meal.
Follow the step-by-step Hungarian stuffed cabbage rolls recipe to learn how to make traditional töltött káposzta.
Stuffed Paprika
Print RecipeIngredients
- 2 Litre (l) tomato juice
- 5 Table spoon (tbsp) sugar
- 2 Table spoon (tbsp) flour
- 6 Piece white paprika
- 40 Dekagram (dkg) minced meat (turkey)
- 1 Cup rice
- 3 Tea spoon (tsp) ground sweet pepper
- 1 Piece egg
- 1 Table spoon (tbsp) oil
- 3 Tea spoon (tsp) salt
- 1 Tea spoon (tsp) black pepper
Instructions
This is a preferred traditional food especially end of summer and autumn. Sweet tomato sauce with salty stu!ed paprika is unique and especially savory.Mix up the minced meat, salt, black pepper, sweet pepper, rice and egg therea”er form 5 cm balls. Stu! these balls into 6 white paprika (of course previously removed the seed from it), the remaining balls will be cooked also. Boil the tomato juice a peck of salt and put the stu!ed paprika and meat balls into it. Cook them until the rice and meat is so” (approx. 45 minutes).
Take out the paprika and balls from tomato juice. Toast the flour on oil till almond color and add a cup of tomato juice, boil it a minute and add the other part of the juice and sugar also. The whole comes like a sauce, slightly dense. If it is boiled add the paprika and meat balls again and cook just 5 minutes together with the sauce again.
