Stuffed Peppers - Quicker


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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 16
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 272.4
  • Total Fat: 6.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 58.8 mg
  • Sodium: 386.7 mg
  • Total Carbs: 31.5 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 4.3 g
  • Protein: 23.3 g

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Introduction

This meal can be on the table in less than 1 hour! Leftovers make a GREAT lunch!! This meal can be on the table in less than 1 hour! Leftovers make a GREAT lunch!!
Number of Servings: 16

Ingredients

    16 Bell Peppers
    2 pkgs ground turkey - ground chicken reduces calories per serving. (nutrtional info based on 20.8 oz 93%, 20.8 oz 99% ground turkey)
    1 can 28 oz. diced tomatoes
    2 cans 8 oz. tomato sauce
    5 - 8 cups (approx) brown rice, cooked (calories based on 7 cups)
    2 packets Sazon seasoning
    4 tsp. Adobo seasoning
    2 cups reduced fat 4-cheese blend, shredded or less is trying to reduce calories

Directions

1) Start cooking brown rice
2) Preheat oven to 350 F
3) Cut top of peppers off to make "bowl" for filling
4) Boil peppers for 10 minutes (may need to do 2 batches)
5) Brown ground turkey while peppers and rice is cooking.
6) Add tomatoes, sauce, seasoning to ground turkey. Simmer.
7) Add cooked rice to ground turkey mix. Add half of cheese. Mix well.
8) Fill peppers and top with remaining cheese.
9) Bake for 5 minutes until cheese melts.

Makes 16 servings of 1 stuffed pepper each.

Number of Servings: 16

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user RYCOELMA.

Member Ratings For This Recipe


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    Incredible!
    - 1/14/20


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    Incredible!
    Awesome! My family loves this recipe. I've cooked it several times. You can do more or less and it's still great. - 9/22/09


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    Very Good
    making for dinner tonight,, excellent recipe,, ment to hit 5 stars. - 5/30/09


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    where can you find sazon seasoning and adobo seasoning? - 12/20/08

    Reply from RYCOELMA (12/20/08)
    They are found with the international foods/Mexican foods in our grocery store.



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    Incredible!
    I love stuffed peppers and this is great! - 12/17/08