Stuffed Bell Peppers

INGREDIENTS

3 Green Bell Peppers
1 Pound Ground Beef
1 Cup Cooked Rice
2 Cups of Water or Beef Stock
1 Yellow Onion
2 Garlic Cloves
2 Small Cans Tomato Sauce
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1 Small Can Beef or Chicken Stock
1 Teaspoon Italian Seasoning (Basil, Marjoram, Oregano, Rosemary, Thyme)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt And Pepper

Serves 3 people

DIRECTIONS

Pour rice into a pot and add the two cups of water or beef stock.  Cook for 20 minutes or until soft.

Proper Mise en place

Chop up half of a large yellow onion or entire small onion. Chop up two cloves of garlic.  Cut the tops off of your peppers, split in half and remove the seeds.  Place the peppers in a glass baking dish.  Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Heat a large skillet and lightly coat the bottom of the pan with Extra Virgin Olive Oil (two turns of the pan.) Add 1 to 2 handfuls of the chopped onions to the pan and all of the garlic.  Cook until the onions and garlic begin to soften.  Add 1 pound of hamburger meat, Italian Seasoning and Worcestershire sauce to the onions and garlic.  Cook until the meat is brown. Salt and Pepper to taste.  Add half can of tomato sauce to the mixture and turn off the heat.  Slowly mix in the rice so you have a nice meat and rice ratio (half and half.)

Stuff your peppers by filling each pepper with the mixture.  Pack the mixture into each pepper.  Spoon tomato sauce onto each pepper.  Pour a slight amount of chicken or beef stock (about 1/4 cup) into the baking dish.  This is used to steam the peppers as they are cooking. Lightly cover the dish with tin foil.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

REVIEW

Absolutely delicious.  I actually only had 1 small can of tomato sauce so I used it to top the pepper and omitted it from the meat mixture.  It was still very yummy!  The peppers were cooked perfectly, with a nice soft bite to them.  If you feel the meat is too bland you can add 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce to the meat mixture as you are browning the meat.  I didn't have any so I omitted it.