Mexican Stuffed Peppers (Paleo)

Submitted by heatherhopecs

"Adapted from fastpaleo.com."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 7 pepper halves
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) packet low-sodium taco seasoning
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 (10 ounce) can tomatoes and green chilies (e.g. Rotel)
• 6 ounces tomato paste
• 1⁄2 cup chopped cilantro
• 4 ounces black olives, sliced
• 4 yellow bell peppers
• fresh salsa
• 3 avocados
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder

directions

1. Preheat Oven to 350.
2. Brown beef with the packet of taco seasoning.
3. While beef is browning, chop the white onion and cilantro. Add onion and cilantro to the beef and saute another 5 minutes.
4. Half and seed the bell peppers. Take one half of one bell pepper, finely dice it.
5. Add diced bell pepper, canned tomatoes, 6 oz can of tomato paste, and olives to the meat mixture.
6. Grease a baking dish and place bell peppers open side up in the pan.
7. Using a slotted spoon to remove any excess liquid, fill each pepper with the meat mixture.
8. Bake for 30 minutes.

9. For the topping:

10. While the peppers are baking, mash up the avocados and 1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder.
11. When peppers are done, scoop some guacamole on top and use salsa as desired.

Reviews

[Tmadz]

I made this last night. It was good, but not great. I just think it needs to be tweaked with the seasoning a little bit. I may just try a spicier taco seasoning or a homemade one. Straightforward to put together and adding guacamole on top is a nice finish. Just needs a little bit more bite. The family liked it and I will definitely make again.

 

[Cook4_6]

Fantastic recipe! I used ground beef and a small amount of chorizo, rotel tomatoes, and eliminated the olives. I also topped this with my standard guacamole recipe instead of the mixture in the recipe. I will definitely make this again!

 

[Sharon Carty]

Always looking for paleo recipes that actually taste good! These were excellent! I used "no salt added" tomatoes and olives and plain avocado and it was still delicious.<br/><br/>Will be making this regularly.<br/><br/>Thanks so much for sharing!

 

[jencmd]

My younger son hates everything, but he ate two of these! I put cheddar on the kids' peppers and avocado on the adults'. Great recipe!

 

[mchenry121]

My husband has been on the Paleo diet for about 3 weeks and he really misses his Mexican food. These were perfect. They had all of the right Mexican favors and they make great leftovers. Yum!