Hot Stuffed Bell Peppers
photo by bob perry
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 large green peppers or 4 large red peppers
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- 1 cup beef stock
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 -2 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 3 tablespoons ketchup
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Sauce
- 1 cup cream cheese
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1⁄2 cup half-and-half cream
directions
- Remove tops and seeds from peppers and blanch for 5-7 minutes.
- Heat vegetable oil in skillet.
- Add onions, garlic, some chopped pepper from tops and fry until soft.
- Add the meat, oregano, salt, bay leaves and Tabasco sauce and fry until meat is cooked.
- Stir in flour, stock, ketchup and bring to boil.
- Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Discard bay leaves from mixture, spoon into peppers and place in a greased baking dish.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- While peppers are baking make the sauce.
- Put cream cheese, cream, salt and cayenne into a pan and simmer until mixture is smooth, stirring constantly.
- Do not boil.
- Pour the hot sauce over the peppers and cook until sauce is bubbling and starting to brown, about 15 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
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Reviews
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Delicious! I just made this for supper, and everyone loved it, including four teenagers. I used red, yellow, and orange bell peppers, rather than green, as they are sweeter, and I pre-cooked them in the microwave (using the fresh vegetable sensor) to shorten the overall cooking time to about 35-40 minutes. I also pizazzed the sauce with a touch of allspice and cinnamon-sugar (not more than 1/8 tsp all together). We will definitely have this again.