Ingredients
Scale
- 36 ea Stuffed baby sweet peppers
- 2 cup Olive tapenade
- 2 cup Coriander yogurt
- 12–15 ea Mint Leaves
- 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp Sea salt
Moroccan Lamb Stuffed Peppers
- 4 lb Lamb, fresh ground
- ½ lb lamb fat, ground
- 10 oz Onion, Spanish, ground
- 12 ea Garlic clove, ground/minced
- 1/3 cup Ras al Hanout Spice blend
- ½ cup Parsley, chopped fine
- ¼ cup Cilantro, chopped fine
- ½ cup Bread crumb
- ½ cup Heavy cream
- 3 ea Eggs, whole
- 2 tbsp Salt
- 36 ea Baby sweet peppers, split vertically, seeds removed. Leave the stem section as much as possible
- 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp Extra virgin olive oil
Coriander Yogurt
- 3 cup Greek yogurt, plain flavor
- 2 tbsp Coriander toasted, crushed
- 1 tsp Cumin, ground
- 1 tsp Black pepper, ground
- 2 Lemon, zested
- 2 T Extra virgin olive oil
Olive Tapenade
- 2 cup Mixed olives, pitted, rough chopped
- 1 tsp Garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp Parsley, chopped fine
- 1 Orange, zested
- ¼ cup Extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl combine lamb, lamb fat, onions, garlic, Ras al Hanout, parsley and cilantro. Mix throughly until homogenous and fully incorporated. Reserve mixture.
- In a separate smaller mixing bowl combine bread crumbs, heavy cream and eggs. Mix until bread crumbs are thoroughly soaked and eggs are incorporated.
- Add bread crumb mixture to ground lamb mixture. Combine until thoroughly mixed. This mixture will resemble meatloaf. Reserve for stuffing the peppers.
- Lay the peppers on a prepared sheet tray cut side up. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and ground black pepper.
- Place 2.5 oz of mixture into each pepper. Top off each pepper with any remaking lamb mixture.
- Bake peppers for 20-25 minutes, until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.
- Remove from the oven and cover for 10 minutes. Reserve for plating.
Coriander Yogurt
- Combine all ingredients until fully incorporated.
- Reserve for plating.
Olive Tapenad
- Combine all ingredients in a small mixing bowl. Combine until fully mixed.
- Reserve for plating.
Plating
- Place several dollops of yogurt on the plater. Artfully arrange the peppers in the dish, stack them gently if needed.
- Place several large dollops of yogurt in between and on the peppers. Speckle the top with it.
- Place the olive tapenade around the peppers in the same fashion as the yogurt. Have fun with it. There is no right way. As I say to my chefs: “Express yourself!”
- Garnish with fresh mint sprigs, both whole and some torn if they are large mint leaves.
- Drizzle the dish with EVOO and enjoy.