STUFFED GREEN PEPPERS – The Southern Girl Cooks

Stuffed inexperienced peppers are made with easy substances, stuffed with taste, and make a superb dinner!

Stuffed green peppers

When you like inexperienced peppers, then it’s possible you’ll need to attempt our stuffed pepper pasta bake or crockpot sausage and peppers.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

Rising up, we had an enormous backyard each summer season, so inexperienced peppers have been plentiful (read more about our garden and way of life here). Mother at all times made this recipe once we have been youngsters, and we simply went loopy over it. Stuffed inexperienced peppers are made with fundamental substances you in all probability have already got in your pantry and fridge. We use Minute rice, which cuts down on the time, so you may simply put together this dish on a busy weeknight. That is one in all our hottest recipes as a result of it’s simple and scrumptious!

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

  • Giant inexperienced peppers
  • Lean floor beef
  • Onion
  • Oregano or Italian seasoning
  • Worcestershire sauce
  • Pepper
  • Salt
  • Minced garlic
  • Dried basil
  • Inexperienced chilies, drained
  • Diced tomatoes
  • Minute rice- you can use common rice, however you would want to cook dinner it first.
  • Tomato sauce, Elective
  • Cheese

SWAPS

✔️You possibly can simply use floor turkey, floor pork, or floor hen on this recipe. Bear in mind, floor turkey/hen will be very bland, so that you’ll need to add extra spice/seasoning to the meat than while you cook dinner with floor beef or pork.

✔️You possibly can simply use common rice or brown rice on this recipe. If utilizing common rice, you’ll need to cook dinner it first.

✔️You actually don’t have to make use of inexperienced peppers. This recipe is implausible with yellow and crimson peppers too!

HOW TO MAKE

These stuffed inexperienced peppers come collectively slightly shortly!

Preparations

Go forward and wash your peppers and take away the stems and seeds. Save the tops so as to add to the meat combination.

Cooking

Step 1: In a big pot of boiling water, after you’ve got eliminated the seeds and stems, boil the peppers for 5 minutes to melt them up. Take away from water and drain on paper towels.

Step 2: Brown the hamburger, onion, chopped pepper tops and drain if wanted. Add the oregano, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, salt, garlic, basil, inexperienced chilis, drained diced tomatoes (save the drained juice from the diced tomatoes), and minute rice. Simmer till rice is tender or about 5 minutes.

Step 3: Fill your peppers with the hamburger combination. (When you use the tomato sauce, pour it over the crammed peppers. Some individuals like plenty of tomato style and use the sauce) Pour the drained tomato juice that you just saved from the diced tomatoes into the underside of your casserole dish.

Step 4: Bake peppers in a preheated 400-degree oven for 20 minutes. Take away and add shredded cheese to the highest of every pepper. Return to oven for 5 extra minutes till the cheese melts.

TIP

In case your peppers received’t arise within the pan, you may slice a bit off the underside to make them flat or just reduce the peppers in half horizontally and simply lay them on their aspect.

stuffed green peppers

RECIPE VARIATIONS

You can use Italian sausage to provide them extra of an Italian taste. You possibly can simply add black beans and taco seasoning to the meat combination to provide it extra of a Mexican taste. You might also love these recipes:

WHAT TO SERVE THEM WITH

Stuffed Inexperienced Peppers go effectively with many dishes and we have now served them with varied aspect dishes. These are a couple of of our favorites, you may at all times use the aspect dish tab on our web site to seek for others.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Do you must cook dinner the rice earlier than including it to the bottom beef?

No, so long as you might be utilizing Minute rice. In case you are utilizing common rice, then sure, you cook dinner it earlier than after which simply add it into the meat combination.

Why are my peppers soggy?

In case your peppers are soggy, then you definately overcooked them, otherwise you boiled them too lengthy earlier than baking them.

STORING AND REHEATING

They are going to preserve as much as 4 days in an hermetic container within the fridge. Reheat them within the oven at 350 levels till warmed by. You possibly can simply freeze leftovers by inserting them in an hermetic container within the freezer for as much as 3 months.

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Stuffed Inexperienced Peppers

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Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook dinner Time 20 minutes

Complete Time 35 minutes

Course Major Course

Delicacies American

  • 6 massive inexperienced peppers or 8 medium tops eliminated, seeded (Save the tops so as to add to stuffing)
  • 1 pound lean floor beef You can use floor turkey, too
  • 1 medium onion chopped
  • 1 teaspoon oregano or Italian seasoning
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic I used the minced garlic that is available in a jar
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 4 ounce can inexperienced chilis, drained
  • 1 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes, drain and save the juice
  • 1/2 cup minute rice can use common rice however have to cook dinner it first in the event you do
  • 1 4 ounce can tomato sauce, Elective (I don’t use this with mine)
  • Cheese for tops of peppers about 1/2 cup shredded (I used cheddar, you should utilize no matter you want)
  • In a big pot of boiling water, after you’ve got eliminated the seeds and stems, boil the peppers for 5 minutes to melt them up. Take away from water and drain on paper towels.

  • Brown the hamburger, onion, chopped pepper tops and drain if wanted. Add the oregano, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, salt, garlic, basil, inexperienced chilis, drained diced tomatoes (save the drained juice from the diced tomatoes) and minute rice. Simmer till rice is tender or about 5 minutes.

  • Fill your peppers with the hamburger combination. (In case you are utilizing the tomato sauce pour it over the crammed peppers. Some individuals like plenty of tomato style and use the sauce) Pour the drained tomato juice that you just saved from the diced tomatoes into the underside of your casserole dish.

  • Bake peppers in preheated 400 diploma oven for 20 minutes. Take away and add shredded cheese to prime of every pepper. Return to oven for 5 extra minutes till cheese melts.

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