Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, italian stuffed peppers w pasta. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have italian stuffed peppers w pasta using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta:
- Take 4 large bell peppers
- Prepare 1 1/2 lb lean ground beef
- Make ready 1 cup steamed rice
- Prepare 1 can diced tomatoes
- Take 2 cans Tomato Sauce
- Take 1 small onion finely chopped
- Take 1 cup chopped parsley
- Prepare 2 tbsp granulated garlic
- Get 2 tbsp Italian seasoning
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take To taste pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp Red pepper flakes
- Take 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Prepare 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- Prepare Pasta (your choice) I use spaghetti, linguine, or Angel Hair
Instructions to make Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta:
- Preheat oven to 400
- Cook rice
- Boil water in a steamer sauce pan. Prepare peppers by cutting tops off them. Save tops to chop and cook in beef stuffing. Clean inside of peppers removing all seeds. Place in steamer and allow to cook for 8-10 minutes until they are hot and softer. Your choice how soft or crunchy you want them. Remember they will soften more in the baking process. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In skillet brown the beef. Drain any excess fat. Then add olive oil to keep moist and add additional flavor. Add 1/2 cup chopped parsley, chopped onions, 1 tbsp garlic, 1 tbsp, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
- Add rice to browned beef. Mix thoroughly. Set aside.
- In a saucepan add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, rest of chopped parsley, 1 tbsp granulated garlic, 1 tbsp Italian seasoning, salt, sugar, red pepper flakes, and EVOO. Heat for 6-8 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Place pepper cups in large baking dish. Fill each one completely with beef and rice mixture. Pour tomato sauce over peppers completely. Cover with foil. Bake in oven for 35-40 minutes.
- Cook pasta to al dente in boiling water. Approximately 8-10 minutes.
- Remove peppers from oven. Remove foil and cover with mozzarella cheese. Bake in oven 5-10 minutes until golden brown.
- Serve peppers with a side of pasta as shown above. Enjoy.
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