Stuffed Peppers & A Favorite Rice Recipe

Stuffed Peppers & A Favorite Rice Recipe
The rice ready to start….5 C dry white rice, 6 1/4 C chicken broth, 2 1/2 tsp salt, a couple shakes of olive oil & maybe 2-3 Tbsp minced onion (you can use real onion & mince it/saute it first, but for this rice we have really enjoyed using the minced, dried onion.) The oil & onion are optional, but so yummy! The oil helps it not stick together.
After the rice has cooked….fluff it up. You can either cook it in a pan on the stove, or in the instant pot (my favorite method because it’s hands off…) In the IP it takes 3 minutes on high pressure & 10 minutes natural release.

The whole family has said this is the BEST way to cook rice from now on! A new favorite! 😊

For this meal, we cooked up a batch of rice (our kids love this rice plain, so I always make a big batch. We’ll use it for lunches & for the stir fry we’re having later this week).

We cooked one pound of breakfast sausage & mixed up 1 part sausage, 2 parts rice to put into 6 peppers that were cut in half, with the insides scooped out.

We mixed the sausage & rice with about 1 tsp garlic powder & some salt to taste (we didn’t need that much because the rice was already seasoned), & filled the pepper halves. Then we sprinkled cheddar cheese over the tops of the peppers & baked them covered for about 50 minutes, until the peppers were cooked through.

Before we baked the stuffed peppers


The rice seemed very dry even though we had them covered, so next time we’ll probably mix some cheese in before we stuff the peppers.

After the peppers were baked. A little more cheese would have been appreciated…next time. 😊


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