Beef & Rice Stuffed Bell Peppers

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 5 green bell peppers
• 5 red bell peppers
• 2 lbs lean ground beef
• 4 cups cooked rice, cooled
• 2 eggs
• 1 finely minced medium red onion
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons maggi seasoning (without msg)
• 3 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 6 tablespoons olive oil (split)
• 1 (24 ounce) jar marinara sauce

Recipe

• 1 rinse all bell peppers and cut stem and top off, removing the seeds from the inside. rinse out inside of peppers. place uncut side down in a large baking dish such as a pyrex or cruset.
• 2 in a large bowl blend all remaining ingredients but the jar of marina sauce and 3 tbsp of the olive oil. blend all ingredients together well using your hands, really getting in there and combining everything.
• 3 scoop the meat and rice mixture out of the bowl and place inside of each pepper until each pepper is full to the top.
• 4 drizzle remaining 3 tbsp of olive oil atop the now stuffed peppers. pour the jar of marina sauce over the meat and peppers, letting it pool into the bottom of the baking dish.
• 5 bake at 400 degrees for 90 minutes.
• 6 half-way through baking (at 45 minutes) spoon the sauce from the baking dish over the meat and peppers.
• 7 cool and serve.
• 8 great with rye bread.