Filfil Rumi Mahshi

== Description ==
Stuffed green peppers
== Ingredients ==
* 6 green peppers
* 180 g (6 oz, ¾ cup) pine nuts
* 4 large onions
* 250 g (9 oz, 1½ cup) olive oil
* 450 g (1 lb, 2½ cup) long-grain rice
* 125 g (4 oz, ½ cup) currants
* 5 g (1 tsp) salt
* 3 g (1 tsp) pepper
* 15 g (1 tbsp) sugar
* water to cover
* 7 g (½ cup) mint
* 4 g (1 tsp) allspice
* lemon slices
* tomato wedges
* 10 g (½ cup) chopped flat-leaf parsley
* 30 ml (1 oz, 2 tbsp) lemon juice
== Directions ==
# Choose medium-sized green peppers.
# Wash them and cut out the stems.
# Core with an apple-corer or paring knife.
# Make the stuffing by lightly frying the pine nuts and chopped unions in olive oil.
# Add the washed rice and cook, stirring, for five minutes.
# Add the currants, salt, pepper and sugar.
# Pour in water to about twice the depth of the other ingredients in the pot and simmer until the water is absorbed.
# Add mint, allspice and lemon juice.
# When cool, stuff each pepper loosely, as the rice will swell.
# Cover open end of pepper with a slice of tomato like a lid.
# Set the stuffed peppers in a single layer in a large pan or dish.
# Sprinkle with salt and sugar, drizzle a little olive oil and 250 ml (1 cup) of water over them and simmer very slowly until the peppers are just tender.
# Decorate with chopped parsley, lemon slices and tomato slices or wedges, and refrigerate.
# Serve cool.
Category:Arabian Vegetarian
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