Stuff with either white or brown rice or even cous cous, quinoa, barley, bulgur, orzo, or even broken (slightly undercooked) spaghetti. This is a really versatile, grab what you got for bulk, stuffing.
Stuffed Peppers
Servings
4 Servings
Ingredients
- 4 large peppers
- 4 cups boiling water
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 medium onion coarsely chopped
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill
- Pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 28-ounce can chopped tomatoes, undrained
- 1 cucumber unpeeled, rinsed, and sliced
- 1 red onion halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup Basic Vinaigrette
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- To prepare peppers: Cut off tops of peppers. Reach in with your fingers or a large spoon and gently remove the seeds and ribs, making sure to leave peppers whole so they can be stuffed. Set aside the pepper tops. Place the whole peppers in a 9-inch square baking pan and pour boiling water in them. Set aside.
- Finely chop pepper tops.
- In a medium sauté pan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Crumble the ground beef into the pan. Mix in the onions and pepper tops. Season with salt and pepper. Mix well and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in cooked rice, dill, and nutmeg; mix well.
- Drain peppers and stuff them with beef mixture. Return peppers to the baking pan. Pour tomatoes over and around peppers and bake for 20 minutes.
- Arrange peppers and tomatoes on a serving platter and serve with Cucumber and Red Onion Salad.
- Cucumber and Red Onion Salad
- In a salad bowl, mix cucumber and red onion with 1⁄4 cup Basic Vinaigrette. Toss and serve.
- Source – Quick & Kosher: Meals in Minutes
Hi Lorraine – the brand I recommended in the video is Frescorti — you can find it in most supermarkets and here is a link to it on amazon http://amzn.to/1LIYHf7
Jamie Geller said on the show where she made stuffed peppers, that you could get the Freschetta Marinara sauce on the website. I can’t find it and would like to know where I can get it.