Stuffed Vegetables
This recipe is from a cookbook titled Campbell's Creative Cooking With Soup, printed in 1985. As you read this recipe, the ingredients list will have Options and you can choose an option from the list below the ingredients. This recipe sounds very good, on my to make and taste list. Links to the Shortcuts are listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Oven
- Baking Pan (9x13 inch)
Ingredients
- Vegetable Option
- 3 slices bacon, diced
- 1½ cups mushrooms, chopped
- ½ cup spring onion, sliced
- 1 can Soup Option, (10½ oz / 298 g)
- 1 cup whole kernel corn, fresh or frozen
- Cheese Option
- ¼ cup milk
- ¼ teaspoon Herb Option, crushed
- paprika, for garnish
OPTIONS
Vegetable - Use 1 Item
- 3 zucchini, halved lengthwise
- 3 green bell peppers, halved lengthwise
- 6 medium tomatoes, remove a ½ inch slice from top of each
Soup - Use 1 Item
- condensed cream of mushroom soup, Shortcut
- condensed cream of celery soup, Shortcut
- condensed Cheddar cheese soup, Shortcut
Cheese - Use 1 Item
- ½ cup Swiss cheese, shredded
- ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
- ½ cup Sharp Cheddar cheese, shredded
Herb - Use 1 Item
- dried tarragon
- dried summer savory
- dried basil
Instructions
- Remove seeds and pulp from Vegetable Option leaving ¼ inch thick shell.
- Heat a large non stick pan with 1 inch of water on medium heat, bring to a boil.
- For the zucchini or peppers, cook those in the boiling water for 2 minutes to soften them, drain well, and discard water.
- For the tomatoes, simply invert them on paper towels after they have been scooped out, to let them drain.
- Use the same pan on medium heat and cook the bacon until crispy, remove with a slotted spoon to leave the fat in the pan, and drain the bacon on paper towels.
- To the bacon fat, add the mushrooms and spring onion, cook until tender, stirring occasionally. Remove pan from heat.
- To the pan, stir in ½ cup of the Soup Option plus the corn and Cheese Option, and the drained bacon as well.
- Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F) and get out a 9x13 inch baking pan. Arrange the vegetable shells in the baking pan.
- Spoon the mixture from the pan into the shells.
- Bake the shells for 20 minutes or until heated through and hot.
- While the shells are baking, in small saucepan on low heat, mix together the remaining Soup Option, milk, and Herb Option, until just hot, stirring occasionally, to make the sauce.
- When the stuffed vegetables come out of the oven, place on a serving tray, spoon sauce over vegetables, garnish with a sprinkle of paprika.
- Serve as a side dish, enjoy.
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