STUFFED BELL PEPPERS
Submitted by gregory on Sat, 2006-11-04 08:01.
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Ingredients
2 large BELL PEPPERS, sliced in half and emptied out
2 Cups of COOKED GRAIN of your choice (rice, quinoa, couscous, lentils, tempeh, etc.)
1/3 to 1/2 Cup fresh BASIL or other HERB
1/2 Cup of diced ONION
1 Cup of chopped TOMATOES
1/4 Cup GOAT CHEESE
2 TBS LEMON JUICE
2 TBS BALSAMIC VINEGAR
2 TBS extra virigin OLIVE OIL
EXTRAS: toss in a small handful (1/4 Cup) of your favorite things like walnuts, capers, olives, sun dried tomatoes, anchovies...whatever!
Method
Stuffing a bell pepper is so easy, I feel cheesy for making it on the show. But it's so good and there's no way to screw up. You don't have to follow my recipe at all--stuff it with ANYTHING you want or halve. This is a great dish for using leftovers by the way.
Cut your bell peppers in half lengthwise. Take out the seeds and white membrane--a spoon works well for this. Set the halves aside.
Get together all the stuffing ingredients and start throwing them into a bowl. You can substitute some of the grain with tofu or "meat". On the show I used wild lake rice, or Manoomin, which is mucho delicious! At Trader Joe's this stuff is sold pre-cooked in a vacuum-packed bag. Great stuff!
Mix it all up in a bowl, season it and TASTE IT! Does it taste good? Could you eat this on its own? If you say YES then stuff the peppers! If you say no...play with the mix some more and get it tasting just right.
Oh yeah, preheat your oven to 400 DEGREES.
Line up your pepper halves in some sort of a baking pan and STUFF 'EM! Chuck them in the oven and let it ride for about 30 minutes. When a fork easily pierces the skin of a pepper THEY ARE DONE!
Enjoy enjoy enjoy!
Easy and rewarding
Simple and delicious.
I've never stuffed a pepper. It definetly has merits. I'm pepper stuffer now. I feel foolish for fearing the pepper stuffing.
We made it before the recipe was posted so I kept playing and rewinding the video to figure out what to do next. Very nice.
I couldn't find any Manoomin, but even basmati was rocking the taste buds. Yeeaah!