Last week I made Mexican dinner using my absolutely perfect stuffed pepper recipe for my girlfriends and me. It was so much food for each of us, it was almost hard to finish — almost! You can stuff your face with these bad boys and not feel guilty in the morning. And the best part about it, only cost me $20 for all the ingredients 🙂
Not gonna lie, this recipe does take a bit longer, but its perfect for a casual weeknight get together.
Yields 4 “Face Stuffing” Peppers
Ingredients
- ½ cup of quinoa
- 1 lb of ground, extra lean turkey
- 4 bell peppers (color of your choosing)
- 1 small onion – chopped
- 1 jalapeño – chopped (optional)
- 1 tomato – chopped
- 1 clove of garlic – finely chopped
- 1 avocado
- 1 8oz can of black beans – drained and rinsed
- 1 8oz can of corn – drained and rinsed
- 1½ tablespoons of cumin
- ½ cup of low-fat cheese
- ½ cup of water
- Salt and pepper
- Hot sauce of your choosing
Instructions
- Start cooking the quinoa in a saucepan
- NOTE: For every ½ cup of quinoa use 1 cup of water
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
- While the quinoa is cooking, cut the tops off the peppers, remove and discard the seeds and place the peppers in a baking dish
- Chop the rest of the peppers and set aside – if I have to tell you to not chop the stems, maybe cooking isn’t for you 😉
- In a separate pan combine onion, and garlic cooking on medium heat for about 2 minutes
- Add turkey to pan and cook until browned
- NOTE: Make sure it’s a large pan, you will be putting a lot of ingredients in there
- Once the turkey is browned, stir in jalapeño (optional), tomato, corn, and cumin to the pan. Cook for 3-4 minutes, add water and bring heat up to high
- Once the mixture starts to boil, bring the heat back down to medium and stir in the quinoa and black beans. Cook for 5 minutes continually stirring everything together, add salt and pepper to taste
- Remove mixture from heat and spoon the mixture into each pepper – go ahead, pack those suckers to the brim, don’t be shiesty
- Pop them in the oven for 25-30 minutes, then top them with your hot sauce (don’t go overboard here) then cheese and put them back in the over until cheese is nice and melted
Pull them from the oven and serve with some sliced avocado. Now devour!
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