Potatoes Stuffed with Meat

Description
In Romanian: Cartofi umpluti cu carne

Ingredients

 * 12 medium potatoes
 * 12 oz / 350 g ground sirloin
 * 2 tablespoons lard
 * 2 onions
 * 1 tablespoon mixed chopped parsley and dill
 * 1 tablespoon flour
 * 1 tablespoon tomato sauce or 1 lb / 500 g tomatoes
 * ½ teaspoon sugar
 * salt
 * pepper
 * 1 cup sour cream

Directions

 * 1) Peel the potatoes and with a thin knife hollow them out.
 * 2) Mix the ground meat with finely chopped raw or fried onion, a tablespoon of lard, salt, pepper and chopped parsley and dill.
 * 3) Fill the potatoes with this mixture.
 * 4) Dredge with flour and fry in lard, turning on all sides.
 * 5) Arrange the browned potatoes in a pan and cover them with the following sauce.
 * 6) In the lard remaining from frying the potatoes, fry ½ teaspoon flour and add tomato sauce or juice.
 * 7) Add sugar, salt and water (if preparing with tomato sauce).
 * 8) The sauce must cover the potatoes.
 * 9) Simmer the pan on top of the range for a few minutes, pour the sour cream and then bake in the oven until the potatoes are tender.