Recipe: Delicious stuffed green peppers

stuffed green peppers. Arrange the peppers in the steamer, cover the pot and cook. In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, rice, basil and remaining salt and pepper. Carefully place peppers in tomato sauce.

In a small saucepan, prepare rice according to package instructions. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat oil. We stuff them with the mixture and drizzle with a little tomato sauce and let bake that way. You can have stuffed green peppers using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of stuffed green peppers

1. You need 5 of green peppers medium size.
2. It's 3 of red peppers small to medium size.
3. It's 2 cup of dry instant 5 min rice.
4. Prepare 1 of salt to taste.
5. Prepare 1 of pepper to taste.
6. It's 1 can of tomato paste.. 6oz..
7. It's 2 medium of onions large diced.
8. You need 1 of 28oz can crushed tomatoes.
9. You need 1 of 28oz can diced or petite diced tomatoes.
10. It's 1 can of 4.5oz chopped drained green chiles.
11. It's 3 tbsp of tomato ketchup.
12. You need 1 3/4 lb of ground beef.

I don't know if there is any real benefit to actually covering the peppers because we do want the cheese to kind of get a nice crisp on the outside. Spoon beef mixture into each pepper and top with Monterey jack, then cover baking dish with foil. Coat a large baking dish with cooking spray; set aside. Cut tops off bell peppers; set tops aside.

stuffed green peppers step by step

1. preheat oven to 375.
2. take your peppers and cut out stem tops and scoop out seeds and membranes. leave peppers whole. set aside..
3. in a large bowl mix together the raw ground beef,tomato paste, 1.5 cups of the raw rice,the diced onion and the ketchup. mix well with hands..
4. add salt and pepper to taste..
5. take meat mix and stuff your reserved peppers to the very top. stand up the peppers in a deep baking pan..
6. take your crushed tomatoes by the spoonful and place 1 large heaping spoonful and pour over each pepper. take the remains and pour into bottom of pan..
7. now take ur diced tomatoes and pour all around your peppers..
8. now take the rest of your rice and mix it into the tomatoes in the bottom of the pan..
9. now grab ur green chilis and evenly distribute them over the tomato rice mix..
10. if u have leftover meat make them into medium sized meatballs and place ontop of green chilis...
11. cover entire pan with foil. and place into the oven and bake until thermometer inserted into center of green pepper meat reads 170-180 degrees and the rice is fully cooked. about 1.5 -2 hours.
12. stir your tomatoes rice mix occasionally throughout cooking time..
13. serve 1 stuffed pepper on a plate and spoon rice mix around your green/red pepper. serve hot..
14. u may sprinkle some cheese over the tops of the peppers during last 10 min. of cooking time. uncovered to brown and melt cheese..

Using a paring knife, carefully remove the membranes and seeds from bell peppers. How long to cook Stuffed Peppers with Rice. Since all of the ingredients are pre-cooked (like the meat and rice), the total cooking time is really a matter of personal preference. Swap the tomato sauce for pasta sauce and some fancy parmesan cheese for an Italian flare. If you're in to Mexican flavors, use salsa and pepper jack cheese mixed in.