Etli Biber ve Patlican Dolmas ( Stuffed Pepper and Eggplant)

                                                                     ETLI DOLMALAR


Ingredients:
250 grams ground meat                                     1 kilo green bellpepper and eggplant

1 tea cup rice-washed and drained
1 onion medium- diced
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tomatoes OR
1 tbsp. tomato paste
bunch of parsley and dill- chopped
salt, black pepper top taste                          
red pepper flakes

Procedures:

Step 1. Combine all the ingredients except for the bellpepper and eggplant, into a bowl.

This is what you will have after step 1...Let it set so the herbs and spices cam be mixed well.

Step 2. Wash and remove the seeds of the green bellpepper, twas easy for me to remove the seeds without breaking the pepper..with the use of my tool here... :)

With eggplant...scrape the flesh inside...

Step 3. Stuff now the bellpeppers with our filling.

Step 4.  Close the openings of the bellpeppers with slice of tomatoes and line them up into a casserole... add 2 glasses of hot water and cook under medium heat first then when boil, lower down to simmer.

 Step 5. Mix 2 glasses of hot water and 1 tsp. of tomato paste, and pour this to the peppers, cover and cook under meduim heat first, then when it starts to boil, lower down the fire to simmer... Cook until the peppers and eggplants are soft.

 Serve with yogurt!!! Enjoy!