Beef / Pork

Filled Peppers is for Dinner.

Filled Peppers takes 15 minutes to prepare.

Filled Peppers takes 45 minutes to cook.

Filled Peppers makes 4 servings.

The ingredients for Filled Peppers are:

Green Peppers (bell peppers), 4 pepper, large
Ground beef, lean, 12 oz (1 lb)
Egg, fresh, 1 large
White Rice, long grain, 1 cup cooked
Tomato Sauce, 1.5 cup (or 1 15 oz. can)
Pepper, black, 1 tsp
Thyme, ground, 1 tsp
Onions, raw, .5 cup, chopped
Lemon Juice, 1 tsp
Nutrasweet Equal packet, 1 packet

Here is how you make Filled Peppers:

Remove stems and seeds from Green Peppers. Blanche in boiling water for 5 minutes. In a frying pan brown ground beef. Remove from heat. Drain and rinse. Add egg, rice, 10 oz. of tomato sauce, pepper, thyme, onions and salt (optional). Mix together and fill peppers. In another bowl mix the rest of the tomato sauce, lemon juice and equal (or sugar). Spoon some of this on top of the peppers. Cook at 350 for 30 - 45 minutes. With 10 minutes left spoon the rest of the tomato mixuture on top. Number of Servings: 4Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user CJACOB1.

The nutritional information for Filled Peppers is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 386.9

• Total Fat: 19.6 g
• Cholesterol: 116.7 mg
• Sodium: 567.4 mg
• Total Carbs: 33.3 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.9 g
• Protein: 21.1 g

The dietary needs meet for Filled Peppers is Low Carb