Quick & Easy Stuffed Green Bell Peppers

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups cooked rice
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 medium onion
• 1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 3 green peppers
• 12 ounces vegetable juice
• 1/4 cup catsup
• salt
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 cut the green peppers in half, top to bottom, and clean out the seeds and core.
• 2 pre-cook the peppers about 1/2 way done. i used the microwave about 4-5 minutes. set them aside.
• 3 dice the onions and saute until translucent.
• 4 add the ground beef, salt and pepper to taste, and cook until done.
• 5 add the diced tomatoes with the juice to the ground beef mixture and cook for about 5 minutes.
• 6 in a large mixing bowl, mix the ground beef mixture, and the rice together.
• 7 add about 3/4 of the the can of v8 juice, and the catsup with the mixture.
• 8 taste test the mixture and adjust salt and pepper if needed.
• 9 stuff each of the green pepper halves with the ground beef/rice mixture.
• 10 add the remaining mixture to the bottom of the casserole dish and push each of the stuffed green peppers in the casserole.
• 11 pour the remaining v8 juice over the stuffed green peppers and rice mixture.
• 12 cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 f for 30 to 35 minutes.