I mentioned in my Five Friday Favorites last week that I just keep having all these recipe ideas, and this is one of them! I had something similar last year at the Alpha Phi house, but I just put together my own set of ingredients and made it my own. You could really do a lot with this recipe, altering the ingredients to what suits your taste & what you have in your pantry. This recipe is Low FODMAP if you take out the feta cheese or just substitute in another cheese.
Ingredients (For One)
1 Large bell pepper
1 package ground beef
A small bunch of kale
1/4 cup quinoa (I used a tri-color mix)
Feta cheese
Chopped chives
Black pepper
Smoked paprika
Oregano
Olive oil
Directions
1) Warm up cut peppers on a pan in the oven (open-face up) while the oven is pre-heating. Alternatively, if your oven is already pre-heated, then just pop them in for about 10 minutes.
2) Cook quinoa according to package instructions. For just myself, I did about 1/4 cup of quinoa and 1/2- 2/3 cup of water in a pot, with a little olive oil for flavor.
3) Simultaneously cook beef in a sauté pan greased with olive oil until well done, seasoned with black pepper, smoked paprika, and oregano. I cooked the whole pack of meat I bought, with the intent to use some later in the week in other recipes.
4) If you have a small pan & the space, wilt the kale with olive oil on medium-low. I just temporarily relocated the quinoa after it was cooked and used the same pan, to avoid having to wash another pan!
5) After everything is cooked, mix it all together in preparation to stuff inside the peppers. Scoop the mixture into the pepper halves, filling them up to the brim. Top with crumbled feta cheese. I had some chives sitting in the fridge that needed to be used, so I added a few pieces on top.
6) Put the peppers back in the oven for about 20 minutes, until the cheese has melted some.
7) Then enjoy! I love the flavoring of these peppers... definitely going to be a repeat recipe for me! I actually only ended being hungry enough for one of the pepper halves, so I saved the other one and had it for lunch a day or two later.
If you try this recipe, let me know what you think!
--Caroline
