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Turkey stuffed bell peppers

It is an amazing flavorful dish that comes together with pesto, rice, and turkey to make an amazing turkey-stuffed bell peppers
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Servings: 4 Servings
Calories: 590
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Ingredients
  

  • 16 oz ground turkey
  • 6 bell peppers stemmed and halved
  • 1.5 cups white rice
  • 3 cups water
  • 2 tomatoes diced
  • 1 cup Shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 4 Tablespoons basil pesto
  • 3 tablespoons Tuskin butter Butter
  • 2 teaspoons Garlic salt

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 425 pull out all your ingredients and prep the baking sheet with tin foil
  2. Pepper
  1. Coat peppers with a small amount of cooking oil place on the prepared baking sheet and cook for 16 minutes
Stuffing
  1. Rice: start a pot of 3 cups water ½ half teaspoon salt and 1 ½ cup rice to a boil.
  2. Once boiling reduce to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes or till rice is tender
  3. Remove from heat and set aside
  4. Place pan over medium heat with about 2 teaspoon of cooking oil.
  5. Added turkey break up and cooked tell all pink was gone about 9 minutes
  6. Remove from burner
  7. In a mixing bowl combine tomatoes, tuskin butter, rice, garlic salt, and turkey. Also added half the pesto.
Finish dish
  1. Peppers will be hot pull out of the oven if you haven’t already divided the filling between peppers and use a utensil to fill up the peppers with filling
  2. Put back in the oven for 10 minutes.
  3. Pull out the peppers again and add shredded cheese then put back in the oven for the cheese to melt for about 5 minutes.
  4. Carefully remove from the oven and garnish with the rest of the pesto
  5. Serve and enjoy

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