Meanwhile I made some stuffed peppers for dinner tonight and I think they would qualify as healthy so I will share my recipe with you. I tried to look up recipes but everyone wants me to put tomato sauce and or tomatoes in, but if there is one thing I'm picky about it's tomato sauce mixed with rice or potatoes. I just hate it. So I made up my own recipe using stuff I thought would taste good with red peppers. You can use whatever proportions you like. This recipe made lots of extra filling that I just put in the fridge and will probably wrap in tortilla's for lunch tomorrow. Here it goes:
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 green onions, thinly sliced
1 brocoli crown, chopped up a lot
1 large carrot, peeled and grated
1 small handful of fresh spinach chopped up
Italian seasoning
about 1 cup cooked brown rice
1 handful of grated cheese, whatever kind you like
Saute the garlic and onions in a tiny bit of oil. Add the brocoli and grated carrots and stir fry until they are tender. Add the cooked rice and continue to stir until heated through. Throw in the spinach and Italian seasoning and warm that until the spinach is wilty. Stir in the cheese. Use this to fill bell pepers that have been prepared like this:
Cut bell peppers in half and take out the stems and seeds. Drop them in a pot of boiling water and let boil for 2-3 minutes. Remove from pot and dunk right into ice water to stop the cooking process. Then they are ready to be filled.
After you put the filling in, bake them in the oven for about 5-10 minutes just to make the cheese nice and melty and enjoy!
We (I should say I) had these with corn bread and green smoothie. They were filling for me, but Wayne was starving an hour later (probably because he didn't have any cornbread or green smoothie).
1 comment:
Hey, Josie, these look really good. I think that's cool that you figured out to make them w/o the tomato sauces. Thanks for the ideas!
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