Hi everyone! Today I am here with one of my favorite recipes! I never made it myself until this week, but one of the most exciting things that brighten up a school or work day for me has always been getting a call from my Grandmother asking me to come for dinner. She always makes the most special dinners. One in particular that I have always loved is Stuffed Peppers. While she usually makes hers with beef and a lot of cheese, today I am cleaning it up and making “clean” Stuffed Peppers. They are amazing!
Ingredients:
2 lbs ground turkey (the ground turkey I bought happened to be 1.8 lbs and it was definitely enough.)
6 large peppers (I used green, red and yellow)
1 1/2 cans (large) total 42 oz. San Marzano crushed tomatoes
2 Tbs. olive oil
6 cloves garlic
1medium onion
1 tsp. chili powder
fresh parsley or 1 Tbs. parsley flakes
bay leaves
1 1/2 cups cooked brown rice
Heat 1 tbs of olive oil in a large pot that you will be cooking the stuffed peppers in. Add 3 cloves of sliced garlic. When lightly browned, add in 1/2 chopped onion and sauté till onions are translucent. Add one and a half cans of a good variety of crushed tomatoes… I like San Marzano. Add 2 bay leaves, fresh parsley or 1 Tbs. of parsley flakes, salt and pepper and bring to boil and then simmer.
Cut the top of each pepper off and clean out the inside. Next thoroughly cook brown rice so you have 1 1/2 cups to add to the meat later.
In a large pan, put 1 Tbs olive oil and the other 3 cloves of shopped garlic, brown lightly. Add 1/2 chopped onion and sauté till onions are translucent. Add ground turkey and break up with a wooden utensil as it cooks. I added 1 tsp. chili powder for some flavor. Once the meat is cooked through, (no longer pink at all) add the meat to the brown rice and stir. Once the rice and meat are fully mixed, take each clean pepper and fill it with the meat mixture. Place the full pepper in the pot to cook with the lid on. I cooked mine for about 50 minutes on a low heat setting. Keeping the heat too high will burn the bottom of the peppers. Check on peppers as they should be soft. Timing will depend on the size of the pepper, mine were large.
The amount of meat needed really depends on the size of the peppers. I really filled mine pretty high! 🙂
Enjoy 🙂
