Description
Golden raisins, aromatic spices, couscous, and asparagus cooked with beef are all blanketed together in a tender roasted pepper – pure culinary delight. Serve immediately; a nice dill yogurt sauce would go very well with this
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/4 lbs of ground beef, at room temperature (organic 85%lean 15% fat is what I used)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 vidalia onion, grated or minced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tbs sesame seeds
- 1 tsp each: ground cumin, coriander, ginger, salt
- 1/2 tsp each: ground cinnamon, turmeric
- 1 cup low-sodium beef broth
- 1 cup of plain couscous (I used NearEast brand)
- 1 cup of white wine
- 8 small or 4 medium-size tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 5 stalks of asparagus, trimmed* and chopped into bite-size pieces
- 1/3 cup of golden raisins
- 10 medium-size bell peppers, assorted colors, halved, pith + seeds removed
- extra-virgin olive oil
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together beef, egg + spices.
- Start off by cooking onions with 1 tbs olive oil in a very large, deep skillet. Turn the oven onto 400 degrees. Once the onions are soft and golden, add garlic and sesame seeds. Toast for 2 minutes.
- Add beef and turn the heat up to a medium high. Let the beef cook until it is no longer pink, breaking up into chunks constantly.
- Add tomatoes and let them soften for 5 minutes. Then add couscous, wine, beef broth and cover the pan. Lower the heat to a medium low and cook until the couscous has absorbed most of the liquid. If it is too wet after about 8 minutes, add 2 more tbs of couscous (but it should not be).
- Finally, add raisins and asparagus and mix everything. Taste to make sure there is enough salt.
- Brush 1 or 2 baking dishes with olive oil. Stuff peppers with meat filling and bake {covered} for 45 minutes. Finish by baking {uncovered} for 15 more minutes.
- Category: Main
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern