Name: Sweet and Spicy Stuffed Peppers
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 6 to 8 large bell peppers, tops removed and deseeded; 4 cups cooked jasmine rice; 1 pound ground pork sausage (hot); 1 8 ounce package of Wholly Guacamole mango salsa; 1 1/4 cups shredded cheddar; 4 - 6 slices jalapeno cheddar or jalapeno jack cheese for topping

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When I was growing up my mom used to love making stuffed peppers. I actually cannot remember what she stuffed them WITH but I remember eating them a fair amount. I decided to play around with a combination of sweet and spicy flavors as a filling to this recipe. I used a spicy Italian sausage but you could use ground beef or ground turkey if you wanted. You would need to add a bit more flavor and heat, though, to give the filling a kick. These stuffed peppers fed my family of 4 for 2 nights. I used some pretty big peppers and still had a little bit of filling left over.

Sweet and Spicy Stuffed Peppers

Yield: 6 to 8

Sweet and Spicy Stuffed Peppers

A sweet and spicy filling is the perfect flavor to fill these bell peppers with.

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

6 to 8 large bell peppers, tops removed and deseeded
4 cups cooked jasmine rice
1 pound ground pork sausage (hot)
1 8 ounce package of Wholly Guacamole mango salsa
1 ¼ cups shredded cheddar
4 - 6 slices jalapeno cheddar or jalapeno jack cheese for topping

Instructions

When you have the peppers deseeded, washed and the tops removed, place them in a microwave safe dish with 2 inches of water in the bottom. Microwave 4 to 6 minutes just to get them slightly cooked.
In a large cast iron pan over medium heat, cook the sausage until done, making sure it is crumbly. Drain and rinse. Add back the the pan and add salsa, cooked rice and cheddar cheese. Mix well
Place 2 inches of water in a 13 x 9 inch pan. place peppers in the pan and fill each one completely with the sausage, rice mixture. Top each one with a piece of cheese.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes or until the cheese on top is melted.

Diane Hoffmaster

Diane is a professional blogger and nationally certified pharmacy technician at Good Pill Pharmacy. She has two college aged kids, one husband and more pets than she will admit to. She earned her BS in Microbiology at the University of New Hampshire but left her career in science to become a stay at home mom. Years of playing with LEGO and coloring with crayons had her craving a more grown up purpose to her life and she began blogging and freelance writing full time. You can learn more about her HERE.

Comments

Greta

February 04, 2013 at 6:56 pm

Those look really good!

Robyn

February 04, 2013 at 11:42 pm

these look awesome! and my husband just informed me that they need to be added to the menu 🙂

Closer to Lucy

February 05, 2013 at 12:29 am

Oh how I love stuffed peppers! I never make them because I'd be eating alone....can I have dinner with y'all?

Gonna send this one to my sis...her family eats whatever she says they will and stuffed peppers are one of her favs

5 stars!!

Diane

February 05, 2013 at 11:56 am

I try to keep the peppers very firm because the family is not fond of soggy peppers but they were delicious!

daisy

February 05, 2013 at 8:31 pm

This recipe rocks!

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