Stuffed Peppers
 
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Serves: 6 bell peppers
Ingredients
  • 6 bell peppers (yellow and red)
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper
  • ¼ cup onion, small dice
  • ¼ cup carrot, small dice
  • ¼ cup, zucchini, small dice
  • 1 pound dark ground turkey meat
  • 1 32 ounce jar marinara sauce
  • shredded mozzerella
  • flat leaf Italian parsley (garnish)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Remove tops of bell peppers. Scrape out seeds and membrane inside the peppers. OPTIONAL: chop ¼ of bell pepper tops into small dice (1/4 cup) and add to onion, carrot, and zucchini.
  3. Rub oil on the outside and inside of each pepper to lightly coat. Sprinkle salt and pepper inside the bell pepper to season.
  4. Spread a layer of tomato sauce on bottom of baking dish (mine was 8"x11.5"). Place bell peppers in the baking dish sitting upright. Set aside.
  5. In a pan, heat 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil over medium heat. Add onion, carrot, zucchini, and bell pepper (if using). Lightly season with salt and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes to soften the vegetables. You want to soften not brown the vegetables.
  6. Add ground turkey to vegetables. Lightly season meat with salt and pepper. Break up ground turkey with wooden spoon and combine with the vegetables. Brown ground turkey. Once cooked, remove excess fat.
  7. Add two cups of marinara sauce to pan with turkey and vegetables. Stir to combine and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
  8. Spoon ground turkey sauce into bell peppers.
  9. Top each pepper with 2 tablespoons of marinara sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese.
  10. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until a knife slides easily into side of pepper. If cheese gets too brown for your liking during cooking, cover loosely with foil.
  11. Garnish with chopped Italian parsley.
  12. Serve over rice.
Notes
*I used zucchini but you can use broccoli, peas, or cauliflower. Feel free to improvise with what you have on hand.
Recipe by Every Kitchen Tells A Story at https://everykitchentellsastory.com/stuffed-peppers/