Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, southwest inspired quinoa stuffed peppers. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Loaded with protein, healthy grains, and veggies, these southwestern quinoa stuffed peppers are a healthy balanced meal for the family. A delicious meal made with fresh red bell peppers stuffed with protein-packed quinoa, fiber-rich black beans, combined with a southwestern-style blend of spiced and herbs, and topped with creamy mozzarella cheese. Here is how you cook that.
Southwest Inspired Quinoa Stuffed Peppers is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Southwest Inspired Quinoa Stuffed Peppers is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook southwest inspired quinoa stuffed peppers using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Southwest Inspired Quinoa Stuffed Peppers:
- Prepare 3-4 bell peppers - any color, halved, seeds and ribs removed
- Get 2 cups prepared quinoa
- Make ready 1 can yellow corn - drained
- Get 1 can black beans - drained and rinsed
- Make ready 1 can diced tomatoes - do not drain (I used garlic with olive oil tomatoes)
- Take 2 tsp chili powder
- Make ready 1 tsp paprika
- Take 1 tsp cumin
- Take to taste salt & pepper
- Make ready 2 cups Shredded cheese (I used a blend of sharp cheddar and pepper jack)
Black beans, cumin, salsa, Chihuahua cheese, and cilantro. They were so filling and wonderful. The leftovers the next day were just as good. While the peppers are cooking, combine the quinoa and water in a medium pot and bring to a boil.
Steps to make Southwest Inspired Quinoa Stuffed Peppers:
- Prepare Quinoa to package directions. Preheat oven to 375°F.
- While quinoa is cooking prep your bell peppers, arrange in a 9x13" casserole dish, cut side up. I had pretty large peppers so I only needed 3, but if you have medium to small peppers you will need 4.
- When quinoa is done, remove pan from stove. Add corn, black beans, tomatoes, chili powder, paprika, and cumin directly to quinoa in pan. Stir to combine until seasoning is fully incorporated. Taste mixture and add salt and pepper if desired.
- Spoon equal amount of mixture into each prepared pepper until all mixture is used up. Tent dish with foil and place in oven for 30-45 minutes depending on how soft you want your peppers. We like ours very soft so I went with 45 min.
- Remove from oven, carefully uncover, top peppers with 1/4-1/3 cup shredded cheese each (amount per pepper depends on if you used 3 or 4). Return dish to oven uncovered, bake 10 more minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly. Remove, let rest for 5 minutes and serve. Top with sour cream, salsa and/or guacamole if desired.
Heat a large skillet over medium heat. These Southwestern Quinoa Stuffed Peppers are a meatless meal that will even satisfy the meat-and-potatoes crowd! Rinse quinoa thoroughly in a sieve through running water. These Southwest Beef & Quinoa Stuffed Peppers are just that type of dish - They're almost deceptively healthy because by mixing in the quinoa with the ground beef, you get an extra dose of protein, iron and amino acids. Plus, if you've got any quinoa haters in your family, I promise, they'll barely even notice it in this dish.
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