{"id":957,"date":"2016-10-18T14:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2016-12-18T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:05:51","slug":"stuffed-green-pepper-casserole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed Green Pepper Casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbor made this for us about a year ago (I can&#8217;t remember why), and we were hooked. I was so hooked that I asked her for the recipe while I was pregnant, but she said that she had just made it up. And then she brought me some the next day! So we&#8217;ve recreated it here, and it&#8217;s just like hers. AND it&#8217;s healthy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stuffed Green Pepper Casserole<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2 green bell peppers, diced<br \/>\n1 lg onion, diced<br \/>\n4 cloves garlic, diced<br \/>\n1lb ground turkey<br \/>\n3 Tbsp Worcestershire (low sodium)<br \/>\n2 Tbsp tomato paste<br \/>\n1-12 oz can Hunts tomato sauce<br \/>\n2 c beef stock<br \/>\n1 c quinoa flakes (check the bulk section of your local health food store)<\/p>\n<p>In a large pot over medium heat, saute the green pepper and onion until soft; set aside. In the same pan, add the ground turkey, garlic, and\u00a0Worcestershire to brown, using a wooden spook to break the meat into a fine crumble. Once brown, add the tomato paste and stir in to caramelize, about 1-2 minutes. Then add the peppers\/onions, tomato sauce and stock, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 30 minutes. Stir in the quinoa flakes, return the lid, and cook for 90 seconds. Stir again and enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/?p=957\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1029361;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbor made this for us about a year ago (I can&#8217;t remember why), and we were hooked. I was so hooked that I asked her for the recipe while I was pregnant, but she said that she had just made it up. And then she brought me some the next day! So we&#8217;ve recreated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1029361;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,145,10,9],"tags":[160,31],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comfort-food","category-dinner","category-easy","category-healthy","category-light","tag-green-pepper","tag-quinoa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaciouschef.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}