Tonight is a winner for ME!!! No one in my household likes stuffed peppers so I don't usually make them. However, I went to this AWESOME farmer's market last weekend and the veggies were so cheap. I purchased several large sweet peppers - red, yellow, & orange. I wasn't sure what I wanted to stuff them with so I started scouring over many stuffed pepper recipes on the Internet. Each recipe had either something I'm not allowed to eat, or something I didn't like, or something I didn't have in the kitchen (and I didn't want to make a trip to the store). So I began to search the kitchen and create my own stuffed peppers. Here's what I did...
- Pre heat oven to 350
- Sauteed 1 medium red onion & 4 cups chopped fresh spinach
- added in 1 cup quinoa & 1 1/2 cups water until it boiled
- covered and simmered for 20 minutes
- added 1 can white chicken breast and mixed it all up
- cut & gutted 6 sweet peppers
- filled the peppers with the quinoa/chicken mixture
- Put tops of peppers back on top of each pepper. Then put peppers in a baking dish.
- Cooked them for about 45 minutes
- I sprinkled the top of each with fiesta cheese just because every recipe I looked at added a LOT of cheese to the quinoa mixture, but I didn't want to add the calories. The cheese didn't even make a difference. I wouldn't add it again. But if you love cheese, throw a cup in the mix!
The peppers not only tasted tremendous, they were gorgeous!!!! I will definitely have to make them again. (maybe when guests are here so I'm not eating them by myself) :)
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