Stuffed Green Bell Peppers

Submitted by MizzNezz

"When our garden is brimming with fresh green peppers this is a favorite way to fix them. These are very good."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 6 medium green peppers
• 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
• 1 cup cooked rice
• 1⁄2 cup chopped onion
• 1⁄2 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup diced tomato
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 (10 ounce) can tomato soup
• 1⁄2 teaspoon basil

directions

1. Cut tops off peppers, remove seeds.
2. Drop in boiling water for 3 minutes.
3. Drain, rinse in cold water.
4. In a bowl, combine the next 8 ingredients.
5. Spoon into peppers.
6. Put in a greased 13x9-inch pan.
7. Mix soup and basil.
8. Spoon over peppers.
9. Cover and bake at 350°F for 1 hour.

Reviews

[Smilynn]

I loved it! Easy to prepare. I had only 4 peppers so I put the leftover meat mixture in a small tin loaf pan to prepare as a meatloaf later. I also like the peppers as leftovers. I heated one in the microwave today on high for 1 minute and it was perfect. This is a 5 star keeper!!!!

 

[KarlaOregon]

very good, I had to scale down the recipe to make four peppers. I think I might add a little of the sauce to the meat mixture. Very tastey!!

 

[Margaret Schneider]

Pay attention to that RICE!! Against my better judgement, I used raw rice, and it was a mistake. Perhaps converted rice, or pre-cooked rice, as in most other recipes for stuffed peppers.

 

[bnunnery58]

Made it for dinner this evening, I used uncooked minute rice instead of cooked rice to soak up the moisture. I added 1/4 cup of grated parmesan to the soup mixture. The flavor and aroma was extraordinary.

 

[Chef TanyaW]

This was very delicious, thank you! I used cooked brown rice. Since we are light eaters, I cut the peppers in half and divided the mixture between them all. Yes, I squeezed 12 half peppers into the pan. I sprinkled the top with extra salt and pepper. I accidentally opened a can of tomato sauce because another recipe I looked at called for tomato sauce. I ended up pouring it over everything after it was done cooking and the extra moisture/tomato was great. It was super delicious and will feed 4 of us 3 meals. Since I hate cheese, I loved it without cheese. My husband added cheese to his at the end. By the way we got a late start and I didn't want it to take an hour, so I raised the heat to 400F and I checked it at about 48 minutes. It was just right... I see no reason not to do that every time!