Sruffed Bell Peppers
From shine 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Use red, yellow, or orange peppers in this recipe to get a nice color to a classic dish. I prefer these peppers over green. This can be used as a light main course or as a side dish. Try adding different herbs and spices for variety and matching the theme of your meal.
Ingredients
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- 4 medium bell peppers 1/2 inch trimmed off tops, cores and seeds removed shopping list
- 1/2 cup long grain white rice- - try using a mixture of white rice, wild rice, and brown rice to add a nutty flavor. shopping list
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil shopping list
- 1 medium red onion, finely chopped shopping list
- 3/4 pound lean ground beef shopping list
- couple of dashes of worcestershire sauce shopping list
- 6 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups shredded colby Jack cheese shopping list
- 2 tablespoons Italian parsley, chopped shopping list
- freshly ground black pepper shopping list
- 1 14 1/2 ounce can diced tomatoes -- drained, save the liquid shopping list
- 1/4 cup ketchup shopping list
- pinch of brown sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Bring 4 quarts of water to boil, boiled the peppers for about three minutes. Remove the peppers and place them on a paper towel lined plate to dream. Add the rice to the water and cook for 15 minutes for white rice, longer for Brown and wild rice. Drain the rice and place in a large bowl
- Preheat oven to 350
- In a medium skillet, over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil and cook the onions until they begin to brown. Add the ground beef, breaking it up with a wooden spoon. Add the Worcestershire sauce and cook the beef until it isn't pink. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant. Remove from heat
- To the bowl of rice add 1 cup of the cheese, the parsley, black pepper, diced tomatoes, and the meat mixture.
- Stir together ketchup. reserved tomato juice and brown sugar in small bowl.
- Place peppers cut-side up in 9-inch square baking dish. Using soup spoon, divide filling evenly among peppers. Spoon 2 tablespoons ketchup mixture over each filled pepper and sprinkle each with 1 tablespoon of remaining cheese. Bake until cheese is browned and filling is heated through, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve immediately.
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This sounds fabulous! Saving it to try. How did I miss this one??? LOL I'm with you on the green peppers. Don't even really like them myself, but, I love the others! Planted a bell pepper this year...was looking for a "red" bell pepper plant, and...more
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Great recipe got my 5..thanks
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I stumbled onto your page and im so glad a I did you have fantastic recipes,worthy of more than a 5 but that is all I can give you:)
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