Spiced Lamb Stuffed Peppers with Rice — Stuffed Rice and Tomato Bowl - Thieboudienne Dolma
Iraqi dolma bell peppers stuffed with Senegalese thieboudienne-spiced lamb, tomato, and rice, simmered in a smoky paprika-tomato broth, served over jollof-style rice with parsley, sumac, and lemon.
Categories
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
For 2 servings
Instructions
Prep
Slice tops off the bell peppers and remove seeds, keeping the tops for lids. Dice the yellow onions. Mince 6 garlic cloves for the filling and 4 for the base. Mince ginger and scotch bonnet. Dice the Roma tomatoes. Pick parsley leaves. Cut lemons into wedges. Rinse rice under cold water until clear.
Build 1
Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a large skillet over medium 60 seconds. Add half the diced onion and cook 2 minutes until soft. Stir in filling garlic, ginger, half the scotch bonnet, smoked paprika, cumin, thyme, coriander, 1 tsp salt, and pepper 60 seconds until fragrant. Add lamb and brown 5 minutes breaking up the mince, until no pink remains. Stir in half the rice (80g) and 160ml chicken stock, reduce to low, and simmer 4 minutes until rice starts to absorb the liquid.
Build 2
Stuff lamb-rice filling into the hollowed bell peppers, pressing firmly. Cap with reserved pepper tops.
Simmer
Heat 3 tbsp olive oil in a heavy lidded pot over medium 60 seconds. Add remaining diced onion and cook 3 minutes until soft. Stir in remaining garlic, remaining scotch bonnet, Roma tomatoes, tomato paste, remaining 1 tsp salt, and bay leaves 90 seconds until tomato breaks down.
Build 3
Stand stuffed peppers in the pot. Pour remaining chicken stock around them. Bring to a gentle simmer, reduce to lowest heat, cover, and cook 25 minutes until peppers are tender and the filling sets.
Build 4
Lift peppers to a plate. Add remaining 80g rice to the tomato broth in the pot, return to medium-low, cover, and cook 15 minutes until rice is tender and the tomato broth reduces around it. Fluff with a fork.
Plate
Mound tomato rice in shallow bowls. Lay stuffed peppers on top, spoon any remaining tomato broth around, scatter parsley and remaining sumac, and serve with lemon wedges for squeezing.
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