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Mititei (Grilled Sausages with Peppers)

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 500 grams green or red peppers
  • 500 grams finely minced meat, such as beef
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 teaspoon savory
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice

Directions

  1. The day before you need to blacken the peppers under the grill until the skin blisters. Cool, remove the skin, de-seed the peppers, and cut them into strips. Dress with 3 parts oil to 1 of wine vinegar, sprinklewith a little salt, pepper, and a pinch of sugar. Marinate overnight.
  2. Pound the garlic with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix thoroughly with the minced meat, the pepper, the finely chopped savory, and the allspice.Leave for an hour or two for the flavors to blend.
  3. When ready to cook, make sure the grill is good and hot. With wet hands, form the meat paste into small skinless #8220;&sausages” about 1 inch thick. Brush the hot grill with oil, and cook the mititei about a hand's width away. They should take about 7 to 8 minutes to cook, turned once.
  4. Eat straight from the grill with marinated peppers on the side, and bread.