Stuffed peppers with eggplant and salmon filling

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 6 bell pepper(s), red
• 2 large eggplants
• 3 carrots
• ¼ piece(s) celery
• 8 onions
• 2 stalk(s) leeks
• 4 large tomatoes
• 1 can of tomato paste, approx. 80 g
• 2 cups of crème fraîche, 150 g each
• 1 liter vegetable broth
• 600 g salmon
• some sunflower oil
• salt and pepper

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 2 hours 30 minutes; Total time approx. 3 hours 15 minutes

Peppers and filling: Peel and finely chop 4 onions, peel the eggplant and cut into small cubes. First, sauté the onions in hot oil. When they are nice and translucent, add the eggplant, fry until everything is nice and soft, and chill. Wash the peppers, then cut off the tops, remove the cores and rinse briefly. Cut the salmon (without skin) into small cubes, approx. 2×2 cm. Mix the cooled eggplant mixture with crème fraîche and a squeeze of lemon, season with salt and pepper and carefully fold in the salmon cubes. Stuff the peppers with this mixture, put the lid on and set aside. Sauce: Peel and chop the onions, carrots and celery, also chop the tomatoes and leeks. First, fry the carrots and celery in a roasting pan. When they have a light brown color, add the onions. When they are nice and translucent, add the leeks. Fry until lightly browned, then add the tomatoes and continue frying. Once the tomatoes have combined with the vegetables, add a little more tomato paste and fry for a further 5 minutes. Then deglaze everything with plenty of stock (hot if possible), but do not overfill the roasting tin, as the peppers will also be added. Then add the peppers and put the lid on the roasting tin. Cook in the oven at 180 degrees (top and bottom heat) for a good 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on the size of the peppers. Then remove the peppers from the sauce and puree them, or strain out the vegetables and thicken with starch. You can easily add mixed versions of the peppers to the sauce, for example 4 with minced meat and 2 with fish. You can serve rice as a side dish.