Chinese Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

6 bell peppers
30 gr long rice
5 ml vegetable oil
1 scallion
5 gr ginger
1 garlic clove
400 gr pork
200 gr peas
16 ml soy sauce
16 ml dry sherry
3 gr sugar
1 gr pepper
1 gr salt
350 ml beef broth
60 ml dry sherry
3 gr cornstarch

Instructions

Heat oven to 375'F. Slice tops off peppers and scoop out seeds. Stand peppers in 23 cm square baking dish. In medium saucepan of boiling salted water, cook rice 7 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold water and drain again. In medium skillet, heat oil. Add scallion, ginger and garlic. Cook over medium-high heat until vegetables are softened and fragrant but not browned, about 1 minute. Transfer to medium bowl. Add ground pork, peas, rice, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sherry, quarter teaspoon sugar, quarter teaspoon pepper and salt to bowl. Mix gently but thoroughly to avoid crushing peas. Stuff peppers with meat mixture. In 2-cup glass measure, combine beef broth, remaining sherry, soy sauce, sugar and pepper. Pour sauce over stuffed peppers and cover dish with foil. Bake 45 minutes. Remove foil from dish; reduce oven temperature to 350'F. and continue baking, basting a few times with sauce, 15 minutes. Transfer peppers to serving platter. Place baking dish on top of stove. Dissolve cornstarch in 2 tablespoons water. Whisk into liquid in baking dish, and cook over medium heat until sauce boils and thickens, about 2 minutes. Serve sauce with peppers.