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 Posted By: Mapiva 
Oct 20  # 6 of 13
How do you stuff yours? I stuff mine with this rice mixture.

- 2 cups white uncooked rice
- handful of chopped fresh parsley
- handful of chopped fresh mint
- 2 zucchinis grated
- 1 large onion grated
- 2 large tomatoes seeded, skinned, and crushed
- salt/pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- a few glugs of good olive oil.

Mix all ingredients (it will be a wet mixture, not stiff) and let it sit for about a half hour until the rice puffs up a bit, or sautee lightly. Stuff the peppers and bake covered with foil for an hour at 350 then remove foil and continue baking for another 20 minutes until desired goldenness.
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Oct 20  # 7 of 13
Well as of the past few months I have used some Ras-el-Hanout in my meat mixture, I also use cooked rice and onion, and tomato paste, and egg and also some milk, and garlic.

I should try the rice mixture you suggest here, it sounds wonderful, and you know sometimes I like to try something new! I still think my stuffed grape leaves are the very best in the world:) but the peppers are a close second! I'll bet the rice filling you mention here is really GREAT in Grape Leaves?!?
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 Posted By: Mapiva 
Oct 20  # 8 of 13
Yes, it's the exact same mixture I use in grape leaves too.
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Oct 20  # 9 of 13
I've really got to give it a try, I will let you know how I like them. Do you ever have them cold in olive oil? (The stuffed Grape Leaves?) I know I see them like that at deli's and Mid-East stores, I just wonder why they do them like that.

Our Peppers turned out so good tonight!:p
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 Posted By: Mapiva 
Oct 21  # 10 of 13
I think that's just the way they preserve them over longer periods of time.