How to Cook Tasty Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers

Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers. Place pork and onions in the skillet, season with salt and pepper, and cook until pork is evenly brown. Pour the tomatoes over the peppers and sprinkle with the feta cheese. Wash green peppers, slice off top and remove inner core and seeds.

Core the peppers but leave them whole. Lay each pepper on its side and cut only the top part where the stem is. Cook the peppers well until tender. You can have Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers

1. Prepare 2 of large or 4 small green peppers, similar in size.
2. You need 16 oz of ground beef / lamb.
3. Prepare 1 of small yellow onion finely chopped.
4. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves minced.
5. It's 2 of large ripe Roma tomatoes, diced.
6. Prepare 2 tablespoons of Homemade Greek Seasoning Mix (see separate recipe).

In Greek style stuffed peppers (and throughout the Mediterranean) the peppers must be cooked until fully tender, they can not be crunchy or taste raw in any way. I used both green and red bell peppers to try because usually I only like red bell peppers but this recipe really works best with green bell peppers. But other than that I didn't change a thing. I served it with a greek cucumber/parsley yogurt sauce which I happened to have in the fridge and it went very well with this dish.

Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers step by step

1. Wash green peppers, slice off top and remove inner core and seeds. Keep the tops and finely dice..
2. Par boil the green peppers in salted water for 5 minutes. Drain on paper towel and set aside..
3. Brown the ground beef or lamb in a large pan until no pink remains. Drain excess fat. Add the greek seasoning mix and combine well. Add the chopped onion, diced tops from the green peppers and garlic, cook until soft. Add the chopped tomatoes and stir until heated through..
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Fill each drained green pepper with the meat mixture and place in an ovenproof dish. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 30 mins..
5. Enjoy!.

Really great dish, and very pretty! I used green, red, and yellow bell peppers to see which flavor I liked best; the sweetness of the yellow bell pepper makes it my favorite, but I will do all three each time I make it. For these peppers I kept things simple, zoning in on classic Greek flavors and ingredients. While they cook, in a large skillet brown the ground chicken, then combine with artichokes, tomatoes, quinoa, lemon and garlic. oven charred stuffed peppers Stuffed peppers are such a classic Greek dish and traditionally vegan! Meat was only added to the rice mixture on special occasions and feast days.