Dolma

Dolma means "stuffed" in Turkish.
Today I cooked peppers and zucchini, but you can also try with other vegetables like onions, tomatoes etc...
It's quite easy to prepare, just a bit time consuming when you have to clean and chop the vegetables.

Ingredients
3 persons

• 7 small peppers
• 2 young medium zucchini
• Ground beef 250 grams
• 2 onions
• 1/2 cup of rice
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Tomato puree or (even better) 2 fresh tomatoes
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil

First of all wash your vegetables and slice the zucchini lenghtwise in thick slices (5/6 cm).
Remove the seeds and spongy centre using a small spoon. Then move to the small peppers, removing the top, paying attention not breaking the sides of them.

Put some water to boil in a small pan and boil the 1/2 cup of rice.

In the whiletime fry 1 finely chopped onion and 1 clove of garlic in a pan. When softened add the ground beef, salt and pepper.
Cook until the liquid evaporates.
When ready add the boiled rice.

Turn your oven on 250 °C.
Start stuffing the vegetables with the meat and rice dough.
Put them in a casserole with some oil and water (just to cover the bottom in order to avoid the vegetables to get stuck on it).

When you're done stuffing the veggies, use the same pan where you cooked the ground meat, add a bit of olive oil and fry one onion (roughly chopped) and the other clove of garlic.
When golden and soft add 300 ml of water, salt and the tomato puree (or the 2 fresh chopped tomatoes).

When the sauce start to boil pour it over the vegetables and bake in to the oven for 20 mins.

Enjoy!