Best Spicy Stuffed Bell Peppers Vegetarianvegangluten Free Recipes

SPICY STUFFED BELL PEPPERS (VEGETARIAN/VEGAN/GLUTEN-FREE)

Steps:

• Sautee onion, jalapeno, and garlic in oil until onion just starts to turn clear. Add carrots and cook another minute or two. Add rice, lentils, and liquid. Turn heat up to high. Stir in garam masala and 1 tablespoon of the Braggs. Bring to a boil. Then cover and reduce heat. Simmer for 40-50 minutes or until rice and lentils are tender.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut tops off of bell peppers and clean seeds out from inside. Submerge in boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Place in a shallow baking dish.
• Mix tomato paste, remaining Braggs, and ketchup in a small bowl. Add a little warm water to thin to the consistency of a thick sauce.
• When lentil/rice mixture is cooked, stir in corn and peas. Scoop mixture into bell peppers. Spoon tomato sauce on top of each and bake for about 20 minutes or until peppers are slightly tender and tomato sauce is dark.

SPICY STUFFED PEPPERS

Steps:

• Wash and Cut the stems out of your peppers, cut in half, long ways and de-seed.
• Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil then, submerge your pepper halves into the pot for 3 minutes. Remove and set aside to drain/cool.
• Start your rice. (2 cups of water to 1 cup dry rice) Cook as you normally would.
• Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.
• While the rice cooks, start on your filling. In a large, somewhat deep skillet, brown your ground beef over medium heat.
• Once your beef is no longer pink, lightly drain and add in your can of tomatoes and green chiles, your can of tomato sauce and your canned corn. Stir it all up.
• In this next part, taste as you go, so that you know how spicy it is and you can adjust accordingly.
• Add in some salt and pepper shakes, about 7 dashes of Worchestershire, 5-6 dashes of cayenne pepper and Tabasco, depending on how spicy you like things -- Stir it all up again.
• Add in 2 cups of the shredded Mexican cheese. Taste your mixture to make sure you don't need to re-adjust your Worchestershire, cayenne and salt and pepper. I usually do -- Your mixture will have some liquid still and that's okay because the rice will soak it up --.
• Add your cooked rice to the mixture and stir it all together, blending well.
• Stuff your pepper halves with the mixture and place In a lightly greased dish, pan, or on a cookie sheet. Use the remaining cheese to sprinkle on top of your peppers.
• Tent some foil over the pan so that the cheese doesn't burn and won't stick to the foil.
• Place your pan in the oven and cook for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and cook for about 15 more minutes until the cheese on top is melted and the peppers are heated through.
• Enjoy!

SPICY STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Boil rice in a saucepan with three cups boiling salted water for 10 minutes. Rinse with cold water and drain well.
• Heat two tablespoon oil in a skillet, add onion and cook over low heat until softened. Let cool.
• Mix with remaining stuffing ingredients.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cut tops off of peppers and remove stem, core and seeds.
• Spoon stuffing into peppers and cover with reserved pepper tops. Stand peppers in a baking dish into which they just fit.
• Pour tomato sauce over peppers.
• Sprinkle peppers with oil.
• Bake uncovered about 1 hour or until very tender.

SPICY VEGETARIAN STUFFED PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion, poblano chile pepper, jalapeno pepper, and garlic in the hot oil until onion and peppers are softened, 5 to 6 minutes. Stir rice into onion mixture; cook until rice is lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Stir vegetable broth, tomatoes with green chile peppers, and corn into the rice mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until broth is absorbed, 7 to 10 minutes. Season rice mixture with salt and pepper; stir in 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese and cilantro. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
• Place the tops back onto each green bell pepper; wrap each pepper loosely with aluminum foil.
• Bake wrapped peppers in the preheated oven until softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove peppers from oven and lower oven's temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cool peppers completely, about 20 minutes.
• Stand green bell peppers upright in an 8x8-inch baking dish. Use the aluminum foil from earlier to 'nest' the peppers if necessary. Fill each pepper with rice mixture and top with panko bread crumbs and remaining Monterey Jack cheese. Place tops back onto each green bell pepper.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is melted, 25 to 30 minutes.

BOCA CRUMBLES VEGETARIAN STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Sauté onions and garlic in oil until soft.
• Meanwhile, cut peppers lengthwise and clean out seeds & membrane.
• Add undrained tomatoes, boca crumbles and rice to softened onion mixture. Simmer until well combined. Add ketchup and mustard **NOTE** Add more or less depending on how thick/thin sauce is. It should be just thick enough to remain in peppers. Play with it and add it to taste!
• Put pepper shells in a 13x9 and spoon mixture into peppers and cook covered with foil for 1 to 1 1/2 hours at 350°F or until peppers are soft.

SPICY TRI-COLOR VEGETARIAN STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F Heat olive oil in large skillet and then add cumin, garlic and onion; saute until tender. Mix ground burger, corn, spices and 3/4 cup water in; cook on medium heat 5 minutes or until heated through, stirring frequently. If mixture seems dry and sticks to skillet, you can add more water, up to 1/2 cup. Remove from heat. Add prepared rice and 1/2 cup of the cheese and mix thoroughly.
• Spoon mixture evenly into pepper halves and place in 13x9-inch pan. Pour 1/2 cup water into pan (this will ensure that the peppers are tenderly cooked).
• Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
• Uncover. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Bake an additional 5 minutes or until cheese is evenly melted.

STUFFED BELL PEPPERS (VEGETARIAN OR BEEF)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200°C (375°F).
• Slice your peppers in half, cutting straight down through the stem. In other words, the peppers will then lay on their sides, not on their bottoms. Scoop out the seeds and any white bits inside the pepper so that you have a nice open dish to add the filling.
• Before starting the filling, it's a good time to start boiling water and let the rice cook while you are doing the next step.
• In a deep frying pan, sauté the pine nuts, onion and garlic on medium heat until semi-soft (the pine nuts should brown slightly).
• While they are sautéing, you can toast your cumin seeds. This is not a strictly necessary step but it adds a warm smoky taste to the dish that is unbeatable and it's very simple to do. Place a small saucepan or frying pan on a very hot burner. Pour the seeds in and shake the pan around as they toast. This needs less than a minute if your burner is hot. They will quickly darken and pop. As soon as this starts to happen, remove them from the heat.
• Now add the chopped mushrooms and tofu (if using) along with your spices, including the cumin seeds. If you're using ground beef, you might cook it separately and add it to the sauce at the end. Once the mushrooms are fairly soft (about 5 minutes), add in the tomatoes, corn, cooked rice, cumin seeds, and other spices. Stir this mixture together until well combined and let it cook a few minutes more.
• Pour a small coating of water into the bottom of your baking dish (a dish large enough to hold 6 pepper halves). Place the peppers inside the dish and pour the filling into each of them, rounding it off a bit at the top. Cover the dish with foil and place it in the oven for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, remove the foil, raise the heat slightly, and return to the oven for another 15 minutes or until the tops start to brown and the peppers start to wither. You can place shredded cheese on in the last 5 minutes.

SPICY VEGETARIAN STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Cut peppers in half lengthwise, remove ribs and seeds.
• Combine remaining ingredients except cheese and fill peppers.
• Bake for 20 minutes.
• Top with cheese as desired.
• Return to oven to melt cheese.