Spicy Stuffed Bell Peppers Vegetarianvegangluten Free Food

SPICY STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Boil rice in a saucepan with three cups boiling salted water for 10 minutes. Rinse with cold water and drain well.
• Heat two tablespoon oil in a skillet, add onion and cook over low heat until softened. Let cool.
• Mix with remaining stuffing ingredients.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cut tops off of peppers and remove stem, core and seeds.
• Spoon stuffing into peppers and cover with reserved pepper tops. Stand peppers in a baking dish into which they just fit.
• Pour tomato sauce over peppers.
• Sprinkle peppers with oil.
• Bake uncovered about 1 hour or until very tender.

SPICY STUFFED BELL PEPPERS (VEGETARIAN/VEGAN/GLUTEN-FREE)

Steps:

• Sautee onion, jalapeno, and garlic in oil until onion just starts to turn clear. Add carrots and cook another minute or two. Add rice, lentils, and liquid. Turn heat up to high. Stir in garam masala and 1 tablespoon of the Braggs. Bring to a boil. Then cover and reduce heat. Simmer for 40-50 minutes or until rice and lentils are tender.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut tops off of bell peppers and clean seeds out from inside. Submerge in boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Place in a shallow baking dish.
• Mix tomato paste, remaining Braggs, and ketchup in a small bowl. Add a little warm water to thin to the consistency of a thick sauce.
• When lentil/rice mixture is cooked, stir in corn and peas. Scoop mixture into bell peppers. Spoon tomato sauce on top of each and bake for about 20 minutes or until peppers are slightly tender and tomato sauce is dark.

SPICY VEGETARIAN STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Cut peppers in half lengthwise, remove ribs and seeds.
• Combine remaining ingredients except cheese and fill peppers.
• Bake for 20 minutes.
• Top with cheese as desired.
• Return to oven to melt cheese.

SPICY TRI-COLOR VEGETARIAN STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F Heat olive oil in large skillet and then add cumin, garlic and onion; saute until tender. Mix ground burger, corn, spices and 3/4 cup water in; cook on medium heat 5 minutes or until heated through, stirring frequently. If mixture seems dry and sticks to skillet, you can add more water, up to 1/2 cup. Remove from heat. Add prepared rice and 1/2 cup of the cheese and mix thoroughly.
• Spoon mixture evenly into pepper halves and place in 13x9-inch pan. Pour 1/2 cup water into pan (this will ensure that the peppers are tenderly cooked).
• Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
• Uncover. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Bake an additional 5 minutes or until cheese is evenly melted.

SPICY STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Rinse rice and place in a saucepan. Add water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until rice is partially cooked, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir turkey in the hot skillet until partially cooked and crumbly, 3 to 4 minutes. Drain and discard grease.
• Add cooked rice, tomato sauce, egg, Worcestershire sauce, red pepper flakes, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, basil, oregano, and parsley; mix thoroughly.
• Remove the tops of the peppers and scoop out the insides. Arrange peppers, hollowed-sides up, in a deep baking dish. Slice the bottoms of the peppers if necessary to help them stand upright. Spoon turkey mixture into each pepper and place any extra in the dish around the peppers. Cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven until turkey and rice are cooked through and filling is hot, about 50 minutes.

SPICY STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• In a large skillet brown ground beef with chopped onions and chopped bell pepper tops. Add all spices except for chili powder. When meat is brown and veggies are tender, add the two cans of rotel to the skillet along with the rice, kidney beans, and black beans.
• Cut each bell pepper in half and fill with the meat mixture.
• Place what is leftover of the meat mixture in the bottom of the crock pot and arrange the stuffed peppers face-up on top.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the tomato sauce and chili powder.
• Pour the tomato sauce mixture evenly over the stuffed peppers.
• Put the lid on and cook on "high" for 2 hours and then "low" for 2 hours.
• Serve with grated cheddar and pepperjack cheese and corn chips.