Thursday, September 6, 2018

Traditional Stuffed Peppers, crockpot friendly


Stuffed peppers are an all time favorite recipe in our house. I've made stuffed pepper soup and I also stuffed peppers with an Italian bread stuffing. Anyway you look at it peppers are the way to go if you like a hearty meal.

Today I decided to make my basic recipe using basic ingredients.  I have learned a long time ago you don't have to add a million(exaggerating)ingredients to give your dish a great flavor.  Good ingredients make a good meal....




Here's my traditional stuffed pepper recipe.  It makes two huge peppers or 4 small peppers.

1 lb. 80% beef ground
1 tsp. salt
1 egg
1/2 tsp pepper
1 small onion chopped
1/2 to 3/4 cup cooked rice
2 cups Tomato sauce(Your favorite jar sauce works)

Mix all ingredients except sauce together with hands.  Easier to do than with a spoon.  You want all ingredients to work together so the meat is easy to spoon into the pepper and also make the meatballs.

This time I made one huge pepper and sliced it horizontally and made medium size meatballs with the remainder of stuffing. So good!




I made this recipe in the crockpot.  Place sauce then peppers, then meatballs around the pepper and then added the remainder of sauce.  I cooked on high 3 hours or low 5 to 6  hours.

Serve with fresh bread or maybe some mashed potatoes.  Yummy!





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