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Over under $15 Italian Stuffed Peppers



An easy Italian weeknight meal! Get the full recipe: https://alwaysfromscratch.com/italian-stuffed-peppers-in-tomato-sauce/

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  1. Looks delicious, but I can help make it cheaper, easier, tastier, more filling, and just with 4 ingredients.

    Green peppers
    Ground beef
    Jasmine rice (uncooked)
    Can of tomato sauce (not to be confused with the jar of spahgetti sauce)

    1. Cut the top off of peppers and stuff them with roughly 2 parts beef, and 1 part rice.
    2. Pack in a deep heavy sauce pan and cover with sauce.
    3. In the oven at 350 for 3-4 hours.
    4. Finish with parmesan (optional)

    So good and easy. And when your eating it it kind of turns into like a pepper beef risotto.

  2. I liked that you prepped the peppers lengthwise. You get 2 servings each than the 1 you get when just cutting the top off & stuffing each pepper. Plus it just tastes better because the flavors of the filling comes through & isn't overwhelmed by the pepper.
    You can also use poblanos or other larger peppers.

  3. Aldi has Asiago cheese and mozzarella cheese that’s cheaper than most stores and.Asiago is a good substitute for Parmesan. You can also try making mozzarella – it’s very very easy and cheaper to make. Bell peppers only need full sun and a bit of fertilizer every month to grow your own and grow great in a pot. There’s no reason you can’t grow fresh peppers if you can put them in full sun all day and pour a glass f water in the pot every day.

  4. Ooh, cutting the bellpepper in half is not a bad idea… I have made these inside a whole bellpepper (top cut off) and they always collapse when you make the first cut on them, and then they just look like a dissapointment

  5. You could cut some of the ground beef and add lentils? I know that’s a fairly common stuffed pepper recipe that keeps the flavors meaty and filling.

  6. You have to pay people to be willing to go into the fields to pick these peppers. It's tedious backbreaking work.

    Then you have to pay for those peppers to be moved from the field to a processor that will either be a third party or the final customer who sells those peppers to us.

    In the USA we are currently terrorizing the people who take the jobs picking the peppers and working in the processors making them less likely to take the pepper work.

    We are also stupidly deporting these hardworking people who take these jobs, often cheaply that makes our food cheap which means we have to pay even more to convince the people left to come out and work with the underlying potential they could be arrested and deported for wanting to feed their family and ours by proxy.

    There is a huge disconnect with who people think are powering our food chain versus the people that actually do it.

    Plus inflation sucks.

    This meal looks really great, I've made this before but my recipe is different. I'm gonna follow along with your video and try your method.

    P.S. now is a good time to plant some pepper plants in your backyard or on your balcony. We toss up cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes in our patio planters around this time every year.

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