Low Carb/Low Fat Turkey Stuffed Bell Peppers (Italian Style)

Submitted by TheDancingCook

"I love stuffed peppers and was craving them on my low carb diet. I fooled around a bit and came up with these. I promise, they're so flavorful that you won't even miss the rice. Enjoy!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 large green peppers or 4 large red peppers, seeded, cored and sliced in half lengthwise
• 29.58 ml olive oil
• 118.29 ml mushroom, chopped
• 118.29 ml onion, chopped
• 118.29 ml celery, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 453.59-566.99 g lean ground turkey (I use 93% lean)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1.23 ml garlic powder
• 4.92 ml italian seasoning
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 411.06 g can Italian-style diced tomatoes, undrained
• 226.79 g can tomato sauce
• parmesan cheese (fresh grated or shredded) or mozzarella cheese, for topping (fresh grated or shredded)
• italian seasoning, for topping

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. On stovetop in a medium skillet or saucepan, sauté mushroom, onion, celery and garlic in olive oil until veggies are soft; remove from heat.
3. Meanwhile, in a medium mixing bowl,combine ground turkey, egg, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
4. Add sauté veggie mixture to turkey mixture; mix well.
5. Stuff peppers with turkey/veggie mix and place in an ungreased shallow casserole dish.
6. In a small bowl, combine undrained tomatoes and tomato sauce; pour over peppers to cover.
7. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese and Italian seasonings; cover with aluminum foil and bake for 50 minutes.
8. Uncover, sprinkle with mozzarella and bake for an additional 10 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and browned.

Reviews

[wonderstub]

Tasty recipe. I did change the parmesan by just adding it into the meat mixture. It gave it a fantastic flavor. I also chopped us some fresh basil and added it to the mix as well. The cooking time was a bit off though as after one hour the green pepper still had a little too much crunch. I might take it out another five minutes if I make it again.

 

[lynjt]

Very good! I had left-overs and thought it was even better the next day. :)

 

[laurajtaz]

My husband could not stop raving over this meal!

 

[SarasotaCook]

My stars didn't work, I'm sorry for that<br/>For the above review ... 5 stars<br/><br/>Revise:<br/>I had wrote a nice long review and the stars didn't work so I went back and added the stars and wiped out the whole first review. Oh well.<br/><br/>Just wanted to say I loved the recipe, I used red peppers, they looked much nicer than the green at the store and I added a bit more garlic and seasoning ... but that is just a personal preference. I did add one other ingredient. I soaked 1 piece of multi grain bread in milk, squeezed dry and added that. I wanted just a bit more texture, but the flavor would of been good without that.<br/>Nice recipe!

 

[Jenny Ann]

I've made this twice by the recipe (minus the mushrooms that I don't like). Have also tried it using spices for a Mexican flare rather than Italian.