Stuffed Bell Peppers I
Stuffed Bell Peppers I
I like Stuffed Peppers, and when I did not have an oven, I made these and simply steamed them in a pot with some water, they were excellent. These can be steamed, baked, or even made in a slow cooker, cooking time varies. No need to use green bell peppers, feel free to use red or yellow ones. This is a versatile recipe, if you do not want to use cheese, leave it out, if you want to add mushrooms, added them, this recipe can be adapted to many tastes.
Equipment
- Oven
- Baking Pan (7x11 inch)
Ingredients
- 6 small bell peppers, red, yellow, or green
- 500 grams ground beef, or minced pork, (1 lb)
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 tablespoon oregano
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 cup Cheddar cheese, shredded, (4 oz / 113 g)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F), cut tops off peppers, remove seeds and pulp. Place peppers in a baking dish. A 7x11 dish holds 6 small pepper, a 9x13 dish will hold 6 large peppers.
- Dice tops of peppers. Add the ground beef, onion, eggs, tomato paste, oregano, diced tops, rice, salt and pepper to a mixing bowl.
- Mix together with a sturdy spoon.
- Fill each pepper half full with meat mixture.
- Add some Cheddar cheese to each pepper.
- Top with remaining meat mixture, mounding the tops. Any meat left over, just pack in a small baking dish. Add ⅓ cup water to the baking pan.
- Cover pan with foil, bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 30 minutes. Top each pepper with Cheddar, bake for an additional 5-10 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
Fair cost per serving.
Updated on 14 August 2021.
When I was growing up, these were made with ground beef, living where I do in Thailand now, minced pork is much easier to get so I use that. The photos shown are mine, taken last night as I prepared these. I over estimated the ground pork so I have a good meat loaf on the side. Since it is pork, I cooked for nearly 1 1/2 hours (it will not dry out), then removed from the oven and added the additional cheese on top and returned to the oven for another 10 minutes. These were not covered during the baking. They turned out wonderful!