Recipe: Tasty Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers

Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers. Place pork and onions in the skillet, season with salt and pepper, and cook until pork is evenly brown. Pour the tomatoes over the peppers and sprinkle with the feta cheese. Core the peppers but leave them whole.

In Greek style stuffed peppers (and throughout the Mediterranean) the peppers must be cooked until fully tender, they can not be crunchy or taste raw in any way. This easy recipe for stuffed peppers will become your new weeknight favorite, not just because it is delicious, but because you can sub or add extra ingredients. Use ground turkey instead of ground beef, cauliflower rice instead of the traditional white rice, and add diced zucchini and other vegetables to the mix. You can have Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers

1. You need 2 of large or 4 small green peppers, similar in size.
2. You need 16 oz of ground beef / lamb.
3. Prepare 1 of small yellow onion finely chopped.
4. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves minced.
5. Prepare 2 of large ripe Roma tomatoes, diced.
6. You need 2 tablespoons of Homemade Greek Seasoning Mix (see separate recipe).

While peppers bake, combine panko, olive oil, and dill in a small bowl. Remove foil, and top peppers evenly with panko mixture. Stuffed peppers have a long tradition in almost all of the Mediterranean countries. If you've ever been to Greece, you probably had the honor to try their famous stuffed vegetables (tomatoes and peppers) with rice and cheese.

Greek Inspired Stuffed Green Peppers instructions

1. Wash green peppers, slice off top and remove inner core and seeds. Keep the tops and finely dice..
2. Par boil the green peppers in salted water for 5 minutes. Drain on paper towel and set aside..
3. Brown the ground beef or lamb in a large pan until no pink remains. Drain excess fat. Add the greek seasoning mix and combine well. Add the chopped onion, diced tops from the green peppers and garlic, cook until soft. Add the chopped tomatoes and stir until heated through..
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Fill each drained green pepper with the meat mixture and place in an ovenproof dish. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 30 mins..
5. Enjoy!.

Even my Slovak grandmother used to make the best, stuffed peppers with minced meat and rice in tomato sauce. Really great dish, and very pretty! I used green, red, and yellow bell peppers to see which flavor I liked best; the sweetness of the yellow bell pepper makes it my favorite, but I will do all three each time I make it. oven charred stuffed peppers Stuffed peppers are such a classic Greek dish and traditionally vegan! Meat was only added to the rice mixture on special occasions and feast days. Every day stuffed peppers were meatless and, as you'll see with this recipe, absolutely magnificent!