Those who know me, know I am not much of a vegetable eater. I know I know, eat your vegetables! Ugh, one thing I could never use on my daughter because she would turn around and say it right back to me. 😉 But I do love peppers. 🙂 So it was time to make some stuffed peppers, and Mexican just seemed the way to go. I wanted to keep them simple and there is really not much to these.. Easy and simple dinner, that’s my kind of meal..
Easy Mexican stuffed peppers
Author: Drizzle
Recipe type: Main meals
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Serves: 6
5sp/pp each
Ingredients
- 6 peppers
- 1lb lean ground beef
- ½ cup salsa
- ⅓ cup tomato sauce
- ⅔ cup cooked rice, I used a fine herbs long grain and wild rice.
- 1T taco seasoning
- ⅓ cup diced onions
- ⅓ cup diced peppers (use your tops)
- Grated light cheese, I used a weight watchers Mexican blend
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F
- In a frying pan cook up your ground beef, drain. Add salsa, tomato sauce, cooked rice, onions, peppers and taco seasoning. let simmer for 10 minutes.
- Cut your peppers tops off and remove seeds. You can dice up your tops and ad to mixture. Place peppers in a dish.
- Fill peppers to the top with mixture and bake in oven for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and top each pepper with ¼ cup of grated cheese, return to oven for 10-12 minutes, 5sp or pp each.
7 Comments
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Just wondering what the portion of cheese is? There is no measurement.
Hi, sorry it is in the instructions, step 5, 1/4 cup on each, this is an old recipe, I think WW discontinued their cheese so any reduced fat is fine
you could use ground turkey and cut your points more!
You sure could 🙂
Should you cook the peppers slightly first?
I didn’t and they came out well cooked, but your call 🙂