Description
Stuffed bell peppers are a great, vibrant dish for impressing your dinner guests: they always get compliments! This is a simple recipe for meatless stuffed peppers.
Scale
Ingredients
- 6 bell peppers
- 2 onions
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 3/4 cup of rice
- Oil for frying
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of paprika
- ¼ teaspoon of black pepper
For the sauce:
- 5 cups of water
- 2 tablespoons “chicken flavored” broth/stock powder (with no animal ingredients!)
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
- 1 teaspoon of paprika
Instructions
- Chop the onions and saute until browned.
- Add the rice, stir, and after about three minutes remove from the heat.
- Blend the tomatoes in a food processor, and add the tomato paste, salt, pepper and paprika, and stir.
- Add this mixture to the rice.
- For the tomato sauce, mix together: the water, stock powder, tomato paste, cumin and paprika.
- Remove the tops of the bell peppers.
- With a spoon, fill each pepper with the rice and tomato mixture, up to about two-thirds full.
- Place the peppers in a saucepan or deep frying pan, and pour the sauce over them, so that at least most of the peppers are covered.
- Cover and allow to simmer for an hour.
- Serve hot or cold.
Notes
Try our weekly plant based meal plan for more great ideas!