Stuffed Green Pepper Recipe

After all the hard work of growing your peppers, you just have to eat a few with this recipe. As with any recipe you can add more or less of any of the ingredients. You can also leave some out or add some of your own.

Ingredients:

4 Medium Green, Red, Orange or Yellow Peppers
1 lb Ground Beef or Pork
1/2 Cup Cooked Rice
1/2 Finely chopped onions
12 oz. Tomato Sauce or spaghetti sauce
1 tsp. salt

Optional: Add a little hot sauce to spice it up

Directions: Combine cooked ground beef and rice in frying pan add tomato sauce, onions and salt. Heat until sauce starts to boil (med heat)

Cut tops off Peppers and clean out the inside of the pepper. (Can also be cut vertically in half) Rinse peppers under cold water.

Stuff Peppers with meat and rice mixture. Put the top of the pepper back on and cook at 350 degrees for 35 min or until well baked on top.

Optional: With 5 minutes left on the timer sprinkle bread crumbs then place shredded mozzarella or cheddar cheese on top.

Recipe for Stuffed Peppers Serves 4