Recipe of Award-winning Stuffed Red Peppers with Quinoa

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Stuffed red bell peppers made with quinoa, black beans, and spinach are a colorful, whole-grain side dish. Stir black beans and spinach into quinoa mixture, adding reserved tomato juice if mixture is dry. Spoon quinoa mixture into roasted red peppers and top with Mexican cheese blend. Generously stuff halved peppers with quinoa mixture until all peppers are full, then cover the dish with foil.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed red peppers with quinoa using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Red Peppers with Quinoa:

1. Get 5 red peppers
2. Get 2 lb ground chicken browned in a little olive oil
3. Prepare 1 cup quinoa
4. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
5. Prepare 1 cup onion
6. Get 1 cup celery
7. Get 1 cup zucchini
8. Get 1 bunch fresh spinach
9. Make ready 1 can Italian diced tomatoes
10. Get 1/2 cup parmesan cheese

Using leftover ingredients, I created a southwest quinoa mixture. Roasted red stuffed peppers filled with Mexican spiced turkey quinoa is a nutrient powerhouse! Firmly pack each pepper with about ½ cup to ¾ cup of turkey quinoa filling. Halve the peppers lengthwise, and scrape out and discard the seeds and membranes.

Steps to make Stuffed Red Peppers with Quinoa:

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Cook quinoa according to directions and set aside.
3. Split peppers length-wise, remove seeds and veins, and par boil for 5 minutes. Place in baking dish.
4. Saute all vegetables, except spinach, in olive oil until softened.
5. Add spinach to wilt. Then add can of tomatoes.
6. Combine all ingredients and place in peppers.
7. Cover with foil and cook 45 minutes to 1 hour, until bubbly.
8. An option would be to sprinkle with parmesan cheese at the end!

Firmly pack each pepper with about ½ cup to ¾ cup of turkey quinoa filling. Halve the peppers lengthwise, and scrape out and discard the seeds and membranes. Leave the stems intact so the peppers hold their shape. These quinoa stuffed peppers are just as good leftover. Kind of like a great chili, the flavors just mellow out together and they get even better the next day.

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