stuffed peppers

Today I had a craving for stuffed peppers. I went to the grocery store today with my roommate, and while there, I purchased the ingredients to make the stuffed peppers. I tweaked my old recipe somewhat to make it a bit healthier. Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

1 pound ground turkey (you can use beef, but turkey is healthier)
1/2 cup uncooked long grain white rice (I would have preferred brown rice, but had to use up some white)
1 cup water
6 bell peppers (I used yellow and red, as they were on sale at the market)
2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder (I ended up using some fresh diced onion)
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Place the rice and water in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and cook 20 minutes. In a skillet over medium heat, cook the beef until evenly browned.
3. Remove and discard the tops, seeds, and membranes of the bell peppers. Arrange peppers in a baking dish with the hollowed sides facing upward. (Slice the bottoms of the peppers if necessary so that they will stand upright.)
4. In a bowl, mix the browned beef, cooked rice, 1 can tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper. Spoon an equal amount of the mixture into each hollowed pepper. Mix the remaining tomato sauce and Italian seasoning in a bowl, and pour over the stuffed peppers.
5. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, basting with sauce every 15 minutes, until the peppers are tender.

Let me know how you like it 🙂
Enjoy!