One of the ingredients you can cook quinoa with is bell pepper. Cooking quinoa stuffed peppers might be something you want to try. Here we have two recipes to help you do that.

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Naufal Khairuddin
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2/4/2016
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers

2. Quinoa Stuffed Peppers, Delicious with Easy Cook
Quinoa is known as one of the most versatile and nutritious ingredient in the kitchen. Because
of its neutral flavor, it can be cooked with varieties of ingredients, including bell pepper. Do you
need a variation on cooking quinoa? Try stuffing it in a bell pepper. In fact, stuffing bell pepper
with quinoa is a good idea. If you need recipes for it, we got it here. Below are the recipes we
have to make quinoa stuffed peppers.
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers: Recipe #1
Ingredients:
• ½ cup ribs celery, chopped
• ¾ cup quinoa
• 1 10-oz. pkg. frozen chopped spinach, thawed and dried
• 1 15-oz. can black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 cup of medium onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 ½ cups carrots, grated
• 1½ cups grated reduced-fat pepper Jack cheese, divided
• 2 15-oz. cans diced tomatoes, drained, liquid reserved
• 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 cups water
• 4 large red bell peppers, halved and ribs removed
Steps:
1. First, heat oil in saucepan over medium heat
2. Add celery and onion, cook it for 5 minutes
3. Add garlic and cumin, sauté for 1 minute
4. Stir in drained tomatoes and spinach. Cook until most of the liquid evaporate
5. Stir in water, black beans, carrots and quinoa. Cover and bring to boil. Reduce the heat
to medium-low, simmer for 20 minutes
6. Stir in cheese, season with pepper and salt if you want
7. Preheat oven to 350°F. Fill the bottom of baking dish with the liquid from
8. Fill each of the half bell pepper with ¾ cup quinoa mixture then place it in the baking
dish.
9. Cover it with foil, bake for an hour
10. Uncover and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon cheese
11. Bake for another 15 minutes, wait until the top of the stuffed peppers turn brown
12. Leave it for 5 minutes
13. Move the stuffed peppers to serving plates

3. 14. Before serving, drizzle each stuffed peppers with the pan juices
Note: It can be served for 8
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers: Recipe #2
Ingredients:
• Ground black pepper
• Salt
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 cup tomato sauce
• 1 tomato, diced
• 1 cup quinoa, rinsed and drained
• 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
• 1 zucchini, diced
• 1 small eggplant, diced
• 2 cups water
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 bell peppers, tops cut off and seeded
Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 175degrees C (or 350 degrees F). Line aluminum foil to a deep baking
dish
2. Put water and quinoa in a saucepan. Bring it to boil
3. Cover, reduce the heat and simmer. Wait for 15 minutes or until the water is absorbed
and quinoa tender
4. Using large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Cook and stir garlic and onion for 5
to 7 minutes
5. Add tomato, eggplant and zucchini. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes, wait until it become tender
6. Stir tomato sauce into the mixture, cover and simmer for another 10 minutes. Wait until
the vegetables become soft
7. Stir the quinoa to the mixture. Season it with pepper and salt
8. Put the mixture into bell peppers
9. Place bell peppers in baking dish
10. With aluminum foil, cover the dish
11. Bake bell peppers for 18 minutes; wait until it become slightly tender
12. Remove the cover. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese to bell peppers
13. Bake it again for another 5 minutes, wait until the cheese is melted and bubbling

4. This is not the best recipe we have, but i am pretty sure you will enjoy all of the process. Quinoa
is a good food, it has so many benefits. We have also talked about the benefits of quinoa
previously. Quinoa has perfect facts of nutrition, it is good for kids, adult and also older person,
but of course if it has been cooked very well is a good additional.
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