Quinoa Stuffed Peppers

Hello everybody I hope you are having a wonderful week, this week I'm doing overtime at work so I'll upload another recycled video from my other channel (A pinch of star). I always go back to this recipe when I want to have something satisfying, warm and full of flavour. This recipe is delicious but also pretty healthy, it has quinoa which is a grain with a fair amount of protein and almost no fat, veggies (onion and peppers) which have lots of vitamin C and some lean meat for more protein. Anyway I hope you like it.

Ingredients

• 3 Red bell peppers
• 2 Garlic cloves
• 1 Onion
• 1 Carrot
• 2 Tbsp italian seasoning
• 1 chicken stock cube
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 Cup of cooked quinoa
• 1 Can of crushed tomatoes
• ½ Kg of lean beef
• 1 Tsp tomato paste (optional)
• Parmesan cheese (optional)

Process

• Clean and cut the peppers in halves, remove the seed and the inner White meat.
• Put the peppers in a pot, with hot water and boil then until soft but firm.
• Peel and cut the onion and the carrot in tiny pieces
• In a saucepan put a Little bit of vegetable oil and sauté the onion until translucent.
• Add the carrots and then the beef and mix.
• Add the chicken bouillon and break it so it can be mixed well.
• Add the minced garlic, the salt and pepper to taste and the Italian seasoning, mix everything together and stir fry until the beef is fully cooked.
• Add the pureed tomato, mix well and stir fry 5 minutes.
• To add a little bit more of taste you can add concentrated tomato
• Finally add the quinoa and mix everything together.
• In an oven plate putt he pepper halves and putt he filling inside. Don’t be shy put as much as you can.
• You can put some parmesan cheese on top before putting the pepper inside the oven.
• Put the peppers in the oven at 190 ºC with both burners on for about 15 minutes until the cheese is melted and golden brown.

Here you have the video