[senior citizen]

Stuffed Green Bell Peppers
　

Ingredients :

1 lb ground beef
1 1/2 cups cooked white rice
1 egg
salt and pepper
garlic powder
3 medium size green bell peppers
1 (67 ounce) jar pasta sauce ( I use Prego traditional or make homemade)



Directions


In a large bowl mix together the cooked rice and the raw ground beef.

Add the egg, salt, pepper, and garlic powder to your taste, and mix very well.(I find it's best to mix it with your hands like meatloaf.).

Prepare the peppers by cutting them in half from top to bottom like an apple, so you have two identical halves.

Take off the stem and remove the seeds.

Fill the pepper halves equally with the rice/meat mixture.

Put a little of the sauce in the bottom of a 13 x 9 baking pan.
Place the stuffed peppers on top of the sauce.

Generously spoon sauce over the stuffed top of each pepper and then pour the remaining sauce around the peppers in the pan.

Sprinkle the top with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

Bake at 350°F until the peppers are very soft and tender when tested with a knife........an hour or hour and a half, depending on your oven. They also will stay very well in a warm oven after baking.......until you are ready to serve.

Spoon the sauce over the peppers at least three or four times while they are cooking. The sauce will thicken slightly as you bake the peppers and get delicious and rich.

　
Makes 6 servings if you cut the three bell peppers sideways..........or THREE SERVINGS for a hearty appetite.

I usually make more than this recipe calls for......but it's the basic recipe. It will also work if you cut and fill them the other way, but then you definitely will only have three stuffed peppers.

[NotGolfer]

Maybe most do this already BUT you can brown your hamburger, cook the rice separately then when both are done, mix with tomato sauce and fill the peppers and bake. VERY good this way as well. We put the filled peppers in the left=over rice mixture that's in a casserole dish, so those who don't care for the stuffed peppers can just eat the rice/mixture alone.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by NotGolfer

Maybe most do this already BUT you can brown your hamburger, cook the rice separately then when both are done, mix with tomato sauce and fill the peppers and bake. VERY good this way as well. We put the filled peppers in the left=over rice mixture that's in a casserole dish, so those who don't care for the stuffed peppers can just eat the rice/mixture alone.

It's all good.

I've mixed the sauce in with the meat and rice mixture for an even moister version. But never browned the meat for stuffed peppers. It kind of steams inside the pepper along with the already cooked rice. But, I'm sure your version is good too. Again, it's all good.

I also make stuffed cabbage.........my husband never eats the cabbage leaves....just the filling. I've been thinking of making some now that our weather is turning cooler.......his mom (Polish) used ground pork mixed with cooked rice and sautéed onions.......while mine (Ukrainian) used ground beef mixed with cooked rice and sautéed onions. His mom actually used tomato soup for the sauce part.........while mine used tomato sauce mixed with a touch of brown sugar.......either way, it's comfort food.

Unless one hates cabbage..........then they just eat the filling. In that case, one can just make "porcupine meatballs" and skip the cabbage leaves.......

[gene21fan]

thanks,for the recipe for italian peppers how i miss moms Ukrainian stuffed cabbage rolls and dads Hungarian goulash..thanks again gene

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by gene21fan

thanks,for the recipe for italian peppers how i miss moms Ukrainian stuffed cabbage rolls and dads Hungarian goulash..thanks again gene

Now, there's another great cool weather dish....Hungarian Goulash.
I used to make it often........but my recipe makes enough for an army.
I have real Hungarian Paprika that my dear friend would bring me when she visited Budapest, her childhood home.

Re the Ukrainian stuffed cabbage rolls........dishes like that may have been labor intensive, but they used the simplest of ingredients and were made with LOVE.