Costa Rica General Info: Costa Rica Food: Costa Rica Recipes:

Costa Rica Food: Costa Rica Recipes: Since Costa Rica has a nice variety of vegetable and chili are abudant and cheap, this is a popular and affordable dish for Costa Ricans.

Serves 6

Costa Rica Stuffed Chilis

Ingredients:

• 6 big red chili
• 1 garlic
• 150 g of minced pig meat
• 2 sp. of oil
• 1 small onion
• 1 small chopped tomato
• ¼ tsp. of pepper.
• 2 cups of grounded beans
• 1 tsp. of salt
• 5 sp. of milk cream
• 100g of grated cheese

Preparation:

1. Bake the chili in the oven for 30 minutes approximately. You can do it also in the microwave, inside of a plastic bag with holes for 6 minutes. Once they are roasted, peel them and put away the seeds.

2. Fry the garlic and the meat in the oil. Extract the meat and in the same fat fry the onion and tomato. Then add the grounded beans, the pepper and salt. Let them boil until it becomes a dough. Chop the meat and mix with the dough.

3. With this dough stuff the red chili and put them in a Pyrex. Put a spoon of milk cream over every chili and sprinkle some grated cheese.

4. Put it in the oven for approximately 20 minutes or until they are dry and golden.