Stuffed Peppers

The thing I love about food is that what we really like about foods isn’t always just the taste, it’s the texture of a particular food we long for, especially when nature doesn’t create a paleo food with that same texture. Fortunately, nature gave us spaghetti squash so that takes care of that, but what about rice?

Cauliflower is the answer and it does it’s job quite well. Just pulverize in a food processor and voila you’ve got rice!

I used my rice this time in a mixture with ground turkey and other spices to fill up some bright peppers.

 

You need:

1 pound ground turkey

5 Bell peppers, 1 chopped, the others with tops cut off and hollowed out

1/2 onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, minced

2 tbsp olive oil

1 small head cauliflower

1 tsp cumin

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp chili powder

1/2 can diced tomatoes

salt to taste

for the sauce:

3 large tomatillos, quartered

1/2 cup chopped cilantro

2 jalapeños

1/2 can diced tomatoes

juice from one lime

salt to taste

 

pre heat oven to 350.

Brown and cook the turkey with a pinch of salt.

In a sauce pan, fill it with water and place in the tomatillos and jalapeños. Boil for 10 minutes.

In another pan, sauté the onion, garlic, and peppers in the olive oil until the onion is translucent.

Pulverize the cauliflower in a food processor and add it to the sauté pan. Add in the meat, tomatoes, and seasonings and stir. let cook 5 minutes stirring occasionally to meld flavors.

When the tomatillos and jalapeños are done boiling, strain them and place them in the food processor. Add cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice, and salt. Blend on high until the mixture becomes salsa like.

Add 1/4 cup of the sauce to the meat and veggie mixture and combine thoroughly.

Place the peppers that have been prepped into a Pyrex baking dish. Pour a bit of the sauce into the bottom of each pepper, then fill as full as possible with the meat mixture. Any left over can be placed outside the peppers. top off the peppers with a bit of the sauce.

Place in the oven for 30 minutes or until peppers are soft.

These can be made ahead of time and cooked later. Great for an easy oven pop in when you get home from work.