Stuffed Peppers
"A healthy recipe that can be served as an appetizer or a main"
photo by abigler_06
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 stuffed pepper
- Serves:
- 3
ingredients
- 3 bell peppers (any color)
- 1 cup rice
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1 diced onion
- 3 diced mushrooms
- 1 diced tomato
- 1 crushed garlic clove
- 1⁄2 lb ground beef or 1/2 lb ground turkey
- 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese or 1 cup white cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon mixed Italian herbs
directions
- Cut tops off of peppers and remove seeds and pulp.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Brown meat in a pan with onion, mushroom, and garlic, and set aside.
- Cook one cup of rice (I use easy cook which is 1 cup rice to 2 cups water) and then set aside with the top off so rice can breathe and dry.
- Heat meat mixture on low and add tomato sauce, tomato, and mixed herbs.
- When rice is dry enough to not stick to itself, add it to the pan and mix all together.
- Spoon mixture into hollowed out peppers.
- Top with grated cheese and place in oven until the cheese is melted and very slightly browned.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Cooking is one of my many passions and hobbies. I love creating new, inventive things. My fianc? is French, I am a Kansan, and we are living in England, so I've encountered new and exciting ingredients to play around with.
