Peppers baked with lamb & rice

Peppers baked with lamb & rice

A great-value idea that will easily serve a family or friends for a casual supper

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hour 20 minutes

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Cook the lamb in 1 tbsp of oil in a non-stick pan until browned. Add the onion and garlic and cook until soft. Stir in the cinnamon, cumin, oregano and chilli flakes.
  2. Add the cooked rice and tomato purée, then pour in half the chicken stock. Stir in the parsley and pine nuts and season. Halve the peppers and remove seeds and membrane. Spoon in the lamb and rice mix. Sit in a baking dish, pour round the rest of stock, cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. Take off the foil and cook for another 10 minutes or until the peppers are tender.

Per serving

388 kcalories, protein 24g, carbohydrate 24.1g, fat 22.4 g, saturated fat 7.1g, fibre 3.5g, salt 0.66 g

Recipe from olive magazine, November 2009.

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  • 15 December 2009

    Pewtersfood rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    A nice idea.Would not use yellow peppers again though - far too bitter.Would take foil off for longer than 10 mins next time too.

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  • 19 July 2010

    lindsey martin rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Quite a retro dish that I had forgotten about. Baked it for late teens/early twenties offspring who all loved it. Just used red and yellow peppers and plenty of chilli and rather more tomato puree than specified

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  • 24 May 2011

    kingtwig rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I thought these were absolutely delicious! So did my friends! I cut back on the cinnamon a bit, because I find it a bit overpowering, and cooked my own rice (brown basmati) rather than packet microwaved rice, and left out the pine nuts, but the whole thing was very very tasty! I'm now off to try it with minced beef! :o) Enjoy!

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  • 07 August 2011

    middle_pin2 rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Used green and red peppers. Also tried some with cheese on top. I found this dish a little bland unfortunately. Needs some more spices to give it more flavour.

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  • 07 September 2011

    Robin rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very good!

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  • 03 January 2012

    liz52 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Used red peppers only. Was easy and very tasty. Will make it again.

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  • 17 January 2012

    keencook rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This has become one of my favourite recipes. It's so tasty! I served the peppers simply with a pile of sliced spring greens for a virtuous weeknight dinner. I am now obsessed with stuffed peppers and am experimenting with lots of different fillings

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 400g lean minced lamb
  • olive oil
  • 1 large onion , sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves , sliced
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • ½ tsp dried oregano
  • a pinch chilli flakes (optional)
  • 150g cooked basmati rice (use a pack of microwaveable or cook 75g raw rice and cool)
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 200ml chicken stock
  • 2 tbsp flat-leaf parsley , chopped
  • 4 tbsp pine nuts
  • 4 green, yellow or red peppers
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Per serving

388 kcalories, protein 24g, carbohydrate 24.1g, fat 22.4 g, saturated fat 7.1g, fibre 3.5g, salt 0.66 g

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