Unstuffed Peppers

This is the recipe I shared in a previous post with a little more detail~

Ingredients

• 6 bell peppers
• 1 lb ground beef (if you recall, I tried ground turkey-EPIC FAIL)
• 2 cups prepared brown rice
• 1/2 diced onion
• Sliced mushrooms (optional)
• 1 can tomato sauce
• 1 can/jar fire roasted peppers
• Parmesan or mozzarella cheese to top (optional)
• Spices (adjust to your own palate) garlic, salt, pepper, dash of cumin

Method

• Cut tops from bell peppers, remove seeds & pulp, rinse & dry
• Boil peppers until soft
• Use "tops" from bell peppers, remove stems and dice remaining pepper
• Brown ground beef with onion, bell pepper and mushrooms, drain
• Puree fire roasted peppers in blender or food processor and add tomato sauce-combine & add spices
• Pour sauce mixture over ground beef and mix
• **This is the unstuffed part**
• Slice peppers in half and line bottom of 9x11 pan
• Add brown rice layer
• Add meat mixture layer
• Bake on 350 for about 20 minutes
• Top with cheese (optional) bake or broil until melted and bubbly. 

Tips

• To make life easier, I prepared the peppers earlier in the week as well as cooked the rice. 
• You can certainly use all of the ingredients to make traditional stuffed peppers, this was just a quick oven to table method for after work. 
• Serve with salad and you have a complete clean meal of complex carb (brown rice)/protein (beef)/veggies.  No need to add a side dish unless you want to.  Think twice about adding another starch!
• This was an hour total from when we got home to sitting down to eat.  I put together the meat mixture, assembled and into the oven. If you made the meat ahead, even less.  The Mr. made the salad while I put the unstuffed peppers together.