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Fërgesë
An Albanian bake of peppers, tomatoes and curd cheese, served in its clay pan.
4 servings · 65 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 4 servings.
- 600 g Green peppers
- 400 g Tomatoes
- 350 g Curd cheese gjizë
- 150 g Feta
- 1 piece Onion
- 3 clove Garlic
- 60 g Butter
- 1 tbsp Flour
- 1 piece Hot chilli
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Char the peppers over a flame or under a grill until the skins blacken.
- Put the hot peppers in a bag for ten minutes and peel them.
- Soften the onion and garlic in butter and stir in a spoon of flour.
- Add the chopped tomatoes and reduce them to a thick base with no loose liquid.
- Cut the peeled peppers into strips and stir them into the tomato base.
- Mash the curd cheese with the feta and work it into the hot mixture.
- Transfer it to a clay pan and bake at 200 °C for twenty minutes, until it bubbles.
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