Bon Appetit – Recipe of the Month

Recipe of the Month: Stuffed Peppers with Quinoa and ground turkey

This delicious recipe is healthy and so easy to make!  Serve it at your next dinner party!

Prep time: 5 minutes

Cook time: 55 minutes

Total time: 1 hour

Ingredients (you can always double everything):

• 1 pound ground turkey breast
• ½ cup quinoa, uncooked
• 1 ¼ cup chicken broth (low sodium) separated
• ½ cup tomato sauce
• ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• ½ onion, diced
• 2 tablespoons ground cumin
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2-3 large bell peppers, halved and seeded
• 1 cup of shredded cheese

Directions:

• Heat a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Add olive oil. Sauté onions and garlic, stirring occasionally until fragrant (a couple minutes).
• Add ground turkey, cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Break up the turkey using a wooden spoon/spatula, allowing it to brown (4-5 minutes).
• Once turkey is almost completely browned, add uncooked quinoa, tomato sauce, 1 cup of chicken broth, and chopped cilantro. Stir well to combine then cover. Let simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes.
• While the mixture simmers, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and slice the bell peppers in half. Remove the seeds and white membranes inside.
• Put bell peppers halves into an oven proof dish. Fill each half with as much turkey-quinoa filling as you can. Pour remaining ¼ cup of chicken broth into the baking dish and cover tightly with foil.
• Bake for 20 minutes. Remove the foil, sprinkle each bell pepper with shredded cheese and bake another 10 minutes. Serve immediately.

This recipe was found at:

http://loveandfoodforeva.com/2016/07/turkey-quinoa-stuffed-bell-peppers/