This recipe came to be because of the ingredients I had on hand. I bought some mini sweet peppers this weekend because they looked SO yummy but I have a bad habit of wasting produce. As I am on the adventure to save more and waste less I decided I had to come up with something to make with these cute little peppers.

I had some ground chicken, onion, garlic, cheese, and left-over cooked rice. Sounded like the perfect ingredients for stuffed peppers. I looked all over Pinterest for a recipe containing my ingredients, no luck. So I decided to just throw it together and see what happens.

I am going to apologize because I don’t have the measurements I used for this recipe, but I think it’s pretty hard to go wrong with amounts.

Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground chicken
• Salt
• Paprika
• Frank’s Red Hot sauce
• Parmesan Cheese
• Mexican Blend cheese
• Cooked brown rice (approximately 1 cup)
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1-2 TBSP minced garlic
• Sweet mini peppers

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. Slice peppers in half and clean out as much as possible
3. In a skillet start cooking onion and garlic
4. Once the onion and garlic are browned add the ground chicken, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp paprika, and cook until no longer pink
5. Add in the cooked brown rice and add any additional paprika along with Franks Red Hot to taste.

Stir in 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese to the mixture.

Spoon mixture into peppers

Top with Mexican blend cheese

Bake for 10 minutes