Southern Style Stuffed Bell Peppers Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Grease a 2-quart baking dish.
• Slice tops off of peppers and remove seeds and membranes.
• Blanch peppers in boiling water if desired.
• Set peppers in prepared dish.
• Cook sausage and garlic powder until sausage is browned.
• Drain.
• In medium bowl, stir together half of the French onions.
• Add rest of ingredients, mix well.
• Evenly spoon mixture into peppers.
• Cover with foil.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until peppers are tender and filling is hot.
• Remove cover; top with remaining onions and bake 10 minutes more.

Steps:

• Brown meat with onions in large skillet on medium heat. Stir in 1 cup tomato sauce, 1 cup water and dressing mix; bring to boil. Stir in rice; cover. Remove from heat. Let stand 5 min.
• Heat oven to 400°F. Cut tops off peppers; remove and discard membranes and seeds. Mix remaining tomato sauce and water in 9-inch square baking dish. Add peppers; fill with meat mixture. Cover.
• Bake 35 to 40 min. or until peppers are tender. Spoon sauce from bottom of dish over peppers.
• Cut peppers in half to serve.

Steps:

• Core and clean peppers and cook in hot water for approximately 5 minutes. Remove from water, stand upside down and drain.
• Sprinkle inside with salt.
• Brown beef and onions in hot oil. Add tomatoes, rice, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Simmer 5 minutes.
• Stir in 1 cup cheese and stir until almost melted.
• Stuff peppers and top with additional cheese.
• Bake approximately 25 minutes in 350 oven.
• Note: I usually add about 1/4 cup water to the baking dish just prior to put it in the oven. Also, if you think the whole pepper is to large, you can cut it in half and stuff them that way.
• Note #2: My grandson doesn't like to find a "chunk" of tomato in his pepper -- so if he's going to be around for the meal (his favorite one), I'll put the stewed tomatoes in my food processor and give them a couple whirls just to break up any large pieces of tomato.

Steps:

• Combine spinach souffle and breadcrumbs; spoon into pepper halves.
• Place in a shallow baking dish and sprinkle with cheese. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

Steps:

• Cut tops off peppers. With sharp knife, remove white membrane inside peppers. Wash and pat dry.
• Arrange peppers in baking pan. If one is uneven, slice a bit off the bottom to allow it to stand freely.
• Brown ground beef with onions and garlic.
• Add seasonings, tomatoes, and rice. Blend well. If too soupy, cook until some juice is cooked off.
• Stuff peppers.
• Bake 350 for 45 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Heat oil in a large pot over low heat. Saute onion, celery and chopped green pepper for 5 minutes. Stir in garlic, and saute for 2 minutes. Season with parsley, Creole seasoning, file powder, salt and pepper.
• Increase heat to medium high, and add ground beef. Cook until beef is evenly browned. Stir in ham, and cook for 5 minutes. Add shrimp, and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in stuffing mix.
• Stuff each bell pepper half, and lightly sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Place stuffed bell pepper halves in ungreased baking dish. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.

Steps:

• Brown ground beef with garlic, onions and celery.
• Prepare Dirty Rice.
• Add beef mixture to Dirty Rice and simmer for 25 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let sit 5 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare peppers by coring, removing seeds and cuting off tops (level the bottoms of any uneven so that they stand upright on their bottoms).
• Beat egg with Frank's Red Hot sauce and add 1 cup cheese to egg mixture.
• Add egg mixture to dirty rice/beef mixture.
• Stuff each pepper to the top with meat and rice mixture, and place in glass baking dish.
• Cover loosely with Alumnium Foil.
• Cook in oven for 25 minutes.
• Remove from oven, uncover and top each pepper with remaining cheese. Bake uncovered for an additional 10 minutes.
• When finished, remove from oven and let sit 5 mins before serving.