What’s For Dinner Tonight? Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers!

This is a delicious way to sneak spinach and bulgur wheat into your diet!  Enjoy!

Ingredients:

4 large bell peppers (any color)

1 cup frozen spinach

1/2 cup diced onion

1 cup bulgur wheat

1 can fire roasted diced tomatoes

1 3/4 cups of water

sea salt to taste

pepper to taste

3 Tbsp dried basil

1/2 cup water

Nutritional yeast

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2.  Cut a 1/2 to 3/4 inch cap off the top of each pepper, scoop out discard seeds and white pulp.  Rinse and then drain.

3.  Spray a non-stick skillet with vegetable spray and saute the onion and spinach for 1-2 minutes.  Stir in bulgur wheat and coat with oil.  Stir in canned tomatoes with juice, 1 1/2 cups water, basil water, salt and pepper, and boil over medium heat for 10 minutes.  Stir frequently.

4.  Stuff each pepper to the top and place snugly in a baking dish.  Add a 1/2 cup of water to the bottom of the dish.

5.  Bake on 350 degrees for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes or until peppers have softened.

6.  Stir in nutritional yeast.  *optional