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Easy Chicken Stuffed Peppers

This simple recipe is packed with flavour. Using peppers as a serving vessel means easy cleanup and automatic portion control! Nutty brown rice, mushrooms, and carrots create a hearty, delicious dish. This recipe was featured in our ‘Chicken - Fancy That!’ recipe booklet.
Serves: 8
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 45 min

Ingredients

1 lb lean ground chicken
2 yellow peppers
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded, chopped
¼ cup barbecue sauce
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1 tbsp barbecue sauce
2 cups brown basmati rice, cooked
1 egg, medium
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 cup carrots, grated
1 tsp cumin, ground
8 sprigs parsley (optional garnish)

Food Safety

Before you start, wash all surfaces and your hands with soap and warm water, and remember to wash your hands, utensils and cutting boards after they touch raw meat or eggs. Avoid cross-contamination by using a different cutting board for your meat and other ingredients. Make sure you’re cooking to safe temperatures and chilling any leftovers within two hours. For more food safety tips, visit our Food Safety at Home Section.

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Cut peppers in half vertically through the stems and discard inner seeds and membranes. Keep the stems on as they look nice and help to hold in the filling.

  3. Mix ground chicken with cooked rice and remainder of ingredients.

  4. Fill peppers with chicken and rice mixture. You can mound them fairly high. Arrange in a baking dish and add a cup of water to bottom of baking dish.

  5. Bake for 45 minutes or until ground chicken stuffed peppers are thoroughly cooked and no hint of pink remains in the ground chicken.

Helpful Tip

You can use leftover cooked rice in this recipe. Any cooked grain would work well such as barley or millet. If you have leftover filling bake it in a small oven proof bowl and use it as a mini-meatloaf for sandwiches or wraps. You can also pack leftover peppers in lunches.

Nutrition Info

Per 260 g serving Amount
Calories230
Protein14 g
Fat9 g
Carbohydrate25 g
Fibre3 g
Sugar5 g
Cholesterol65 mg
Sodium140 mg
Per 260 g serving % Daily Value
Potassium8
Calcium4
Iron10
Vitamin A50
Vitamin C220
Vitamin B612
Vitamin B123
Folate10
Zinc3