Spicy Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

• 250 g of ground beef
• 1 tablespoon of rice (1 tablespoon per dolma)
• About 1 cup of finely cooked pearl barley
• 2 onions
• 3 tomatoes
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon of hot pepper sauce
• A quarter of a cinnamon stick
• A quarter of a clove, to your liking.
• 2 tablespoons of lemon extract
• salt, pepper, spice blend, cilantro
• olive oil
• 1/4 of a jar of peanut butter to coat the dolma
• Sweet potatoes or cucumbers and paprika
• For the sauce: 1 lemon and dried cilantro

If you are using sweet potatoes, peel them, cut them into slices, and cook them in salted water. If you prefer cucumbers, cut them into slices and steam them. Peel the paprika and cut it into slices.

Finely chop the onions, tomatoes, crushed garlic, cinnamon stick, and clove stick. Add these ingredients to olive oil.

Add the ground meat to the pan and cook until it is browned. Then add the rice, pearl barley, tomato sauce, hot pepper sauce, cinnamon, cloves, salt, pepper, and spices. Mix well.

Fill each vegetable with this mixture of meat and rice. Place a spoonful of peanut butter on top of each dolma.

Place the dolma in a pot and cover with olive oil until they are golden brown. Pour in 1 cup of boiling water into the pot and let it cook over low heat until the rice is cooked.

For the sauce, squeeze the lemon and add dried cilantro. Serve the sauce over the hot dolma.