RECIPE: Inside-out Stuffed Peppers

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This recipe came about because I was craving some stuffed green

peppers but it was too hot to fire up the oven. So I took the things I

would have stuffed inside the peppers, along with the peppers

themselves, and made a skillet. I haven't tried it with garbanzo beans

added, but tonight I was thinking they would be good in it so I put it

in as a variation to try.

 

Inside-Out Stuffed Peppers

 

Ingredients:

 

1 onion, chopped

1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 2-3 cloves)

1/2 cup quinoa

4 green peppers

1 small can of sliced mushrooms or about 12 fresh mushrooms, sliced

1 can of corn or about 3/2 cup of frozen corn or kernels sliced off

cooked fresh ears

3 Tablespoons fresh cilantro

3 pinches of red pepper flakes

Soy sauce, to taste (I just poured some all over the other stuff)

 

Directions:

 

Rinse and cook the quinoa (boil 1 cup of water, add quinoa, cover and

simmer for 10-15 minutes) and set aside.

 

Saute the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent. Cut the

green peppers into strips and add to the skillet. Stir ingredients

regularly.

 

Add the corn, mushrooms, cilantro and red peppers flakes (if you don't

know where to get fresh cilantro, look in the spice section of the

Mexican aisle of your grocery for cilantro flakes which you can soak

in water and use as fresh.)

 

Add the cooked quinoa to the skillet. Stir well and add the soy sauce.

Continue to cook until the green peppers reach the desired

consistency.

 

Variation: add 1/2 cup of cooked garbanzo beans.