How to Make Stuffed Peppers with Alex Guarnaschelli | The Kitchen | Food Network

well I am making a meaty and cheesy stuffed pepper here on the coupon might closely resemble Geoffrey more than any other name is dollar bill I like dollar bill okay so I've started by browning a pound of ground beef I know son you're over there doing your math cause I can today is that 8020 are you doing 85 15 I did to higher fat higher fat is actually note is is more affordable than the like that so this is onions and garlic that I'm cooking in the same skillet where I cooked the ground beef part of budget cooking to me is don't make a lot of dishes don't make a big mess you don't you know need any cleaning products for example notice how I'm doing a real thick 360 thank God is is you're using there that's chili powder chili powder and ground cumin one of the things about a budget meals I don't want to feel like it's a budget meal that's what I wanted to feel delicious and hearty and I want it to feed a lot of people and I want to have leftovers okay I want to get more than one meal out of it more bang for your buck exactly so this is the onions the garlic the chili powder the cumin filling your kitchen and then just a can of whole tomatoes I like to buy them whole annexed I crush them up and that way you get that kind of meaty texture from the tomatoes I think we definitely want to use less meat here but create the feeling of me eat a bunch of meal and say well that was budget cuz I'm hungry yeah yeah you don't want to be searching for the meat though you have to be falling satiated at the end of this you're such a tough crowd we got a good we just got a spider it's friendly I love it what's this cooks for a while what you're also doing at the same time is jeff has been delicately hollowing out these peppers just taking the seeds a little bit of the rib out season them with salt and pepper on the inside I think it's really important we make stuffed peppers nobody sees in the pepper because the stuffing goes in there and just kind of why friend Alex I know alright I knew this was coming I mean correct right they go in the oven at hundred for about 15 minutes or so just to soften up a little bit before we stuff them I know green peppers are cheaper I think you really need the taste of the red pepper sweetness and you can find them on sale and if you bulk buy them sometimes you can get that bag of peppers it's cheaper when they're cooked they look a little bit like this they already have that roasted quality and they have a lot of taste yeah peppers that aren't perfect looking sometimes they have like totally yeah and then I'm adding back the cooked beef and a can of black beans that have just been drained and rinsed and actually before you get at me about the bag of dried black beans as opposed to the can they're often on sale the canned you can often bulk buy them and they actually end up being sometimes cheaper then that bag of dried so once this kind of comes all together I mean it just really smells so good I think the beans add more protein the tomatoes are gonna kind of link up with the peppers and make them really sweet okay so the last-minute thing is just a touch of apple cider vinegar for brightness and acidity I always do that and I think we forget acid with things like this because I feel like when we get into these kind of chili or stuffing type of dishes you forget hey you know what just a little spark of vinegar you can really change things up and then Jeff will you add a little bit of couscous in the bottom of these that's what you're putting on the rinse Alex I know I went so cooked couscous here I don't want it so little just a little bit in the bottom there so we later yeah we're doing the padding right now this is the but the plastic wrap and the bubble wrap around the actual Christmas present and then we just drop this stuffing right on top and I mean this goes a really long way this is only one pound of meat and we're stuffing all these peppers and then these go back in the oven would you top with some cheese for me just a little cheddar part of budget is really making it gusting it up a little bit and I love the way it looks I love the presentation I love that it's got built-in portion control I think you know that one pepper is gonna really go the distance with you and I love that yeah you can charge more in a restaurant for that yeah so we're gonna put this back in the oven for about 20 25 minutes until they get hot in the cheese melts and then we eat and I love that it has that apple cider in there the treat oh that story this beauty black beans so I'm gonna grab this for you here or would you pull that out for me how does that look oh come on thank you yeah and then just what I love is this is kind of like right ooh these are hot right on the table and they just kind of I don't know they very decorative I like the stem in very festive I love the horizontal cut to oppose from like the cup you know a better ratio don't you think it's very farm-to-table is what we do here all right so I had he just a few for you serve yourselves thank you they're so hot this is delicious the red bell pepper it just gives it so nice and tender and I gotta be honest I've never precooked my bell pepper before i stuff it I just don't idea with him yeah very good idea and seasoning it is so smart yeah he eats it yeah it gets it nice and tender for you but the the chili with the black beans I'm not missing anything this is delicious and I can't believe it was just 1539 for a family of four you

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Length: 5min 52sec (352 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2020