Stuffed Green Peppers

So, the second of the backlogged recipes.  This one was stuffed green peppers.  I made it for a Game of Thrones party since it seemed kind of medival.  The recipe can be found here, or below:

Ingredients

• 6 green bell peppers
• salt to taste
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1/3 cup chopped onion
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, chopped
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 cup uncooked rice
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
• 2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed tomato soup
• water as needed

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cut the tops off the peppers, and remove the seeds. Cook peppers in boiling water for 5 minutes; drain. Sprinkle salt inside each pepper, and set aside.
2. In a large skillet, saute beef and onions for 5 minutes, or until beef is browned. Drain off excess fat, and season with salt and pepper. Stir in the tomatoes, rice, 1/2 cup water and Worcestershire sauce. Cover, and simmer for 15 minutes, or until rice is tender. Remove from heat, and stir in the cheese.
3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. (175 degrees C). Stuff each pepper with the beef and rice mixture, and place peppers open side up in a baking dish. In a medium bowl, combine tomato soup with just enough water to make the soup a gravy consistency. Pour over the peppers.
4. Bake covered for 25 to 35 minutes, until heated through and cheese is melted and bubbly.

The Process

The process for this was really easy.  The first step was cooking the ground beef with the onions, which was pretty simple.

 At the same time I boiled the bell peppers for 5 minutes.  Then I drained them and tried to dry them out a bit.  I then salted them and set them aside.

Sprinkles was thoroughly unimpressed with this recipe.  Instead she just hung out on the chair.

Here are the peppers waiting to be filled up.

Meanwhile I added the rice and tomatoes to the beef and onions and cooked them together for about 15 minutes.

Then I mixed the cheese with the mixture and got a nice cheesy mixture and then filled the peppers with it.

Then I made the tomato gravy.  I was only using four peppers so I only made half of the gravy.  And that was actually too much.  So half might be good for a full recipe too.

I thought that this was really good.  I liked this recipe a lot.  You need to supplement it with something as it probably isn't enough for dinner by itself.  I still really liked it though.