Today we share a realistic, healthy, delicious & nutritious recipe for Stuffed Bell Peppers. This is New Orleans style Stuffed Pepper with a twist. This dish was one that we made throughout our weight loss journey. Eating healthy is not boring. Recipe pos
We learned to learn adapt the dishes we were accustomed to (we live in New Orleans) to fit into our healthier lifestyles. This is what helped us to stay on course with our journey. Being from NOLA our cooking usually reflects it with the way we season things.
This is a tasty quick and easy meal that it allows you to keep it fun while also keeping it healthy and did I say it’s delicious and nutritious?
You can remix this recipe to make it keto friendly by not using the bread crumbs. You can also remove seafood if you do not like seafood.
📃Ingredients:
4 Medium Bell PEPPERS Bell Peppers
1.5 Pounds Ground Turkey
1 Pounds small Louisiana Shrimp
12oz crabmeat (2 cans)
½ cup Italian bread crumbs
½ Onion chopped
½ Celery stalk chopped
½ Green Bell Pepper chopped
Garlic powder
Tony Chachere’s Creole seasoning
Onion powder
Garlic powder
📃Instructions:
**Pre-boil Bell Peppers**
Boil Bell Pepper halves for 10 minutes. Remove from water and place on baking pan. Allow to cool.
**Shrimp Stock**
Peel shrimp and place shrimp heads into bowl.
In large pot add 2-3 cups of water and shrimp heads. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and allow to simmer for 20-30 minutes. Using a mesh strainer drain stock into a bowl.
**Seafood Stuffing**
In a large pan on medium high add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Once oil is heated, add onion, celery and bell pepper seasoning mix allowing it to sauté for about 5 minutes. Add 1 ½ pounds turkey ground meat. Add Creole Seasoning, garlic powder & Onion Powder to taste. Allow ground meat to brown. Be sure to cut ground meat into smaller pieces while cooking.
In a separate skillet add 1 tablespoon oil. Season shrimp with garlic powder, onion powder and creole seasoning. Once oil is heated add 1 pound of shrimp. Allow shrimp to turn pink/orange.
Remove shrimp skillet from heat and add shrimp to ground turkey mix. Add crabmeat. Allow to sauté 5 minutes. Drain ground meat and place drippings in bowl
Place ground meat back in pan and add ½ cup bread crumbs and 1/3-1/2 cup of shrimp stock (to desired consistency.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add stuffing into bell pepper halves and place on baking pan.
Optional (sprinkle bread crumbs on top of bell pepper.)
Place in oven for 20 minutes. Allow to cool. Plate and serve.
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