Skinny Slow-Cooker New Orleans-Style Stuffed Peppers
Updated Sep 20, 2016
98% less sat fat • 69% less sodium than the original recipe. Whet your palate with this spicy, Cajun treat.
Skinny Slow-Cooker New Orleans-Style Stuffed Peppers
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 6 hr 30 min
- Servings 4
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 8 ounces ground chicken breast
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes with garlic and onion, undrained
- 1 1/3 cups cooked brown rice
- 1 medium fresh jalapeño chile pepper, seeded and finely chopped*
- 1/2 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 4 large red sweet peppers
Instructions
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Step1In a large skillet cook chicken and celery in hot oil over medium heat until chicken is brown, stirring to break up chicken as it cooks. Drain tomatoes, reserving liquid. Add half of the tomatoes, the cooked brown rice, chile pepper, Cajun seasoning, and salt to chicken mixture. Remove tops, membranes, and seeds from sweet peppers. Spoon chicken mixture into peppers. Pour reserved tomato liquid and the remaining tomatoes into the bottom of a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Place peppers, filled sides up, on top of tomatoes in cooker.
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Step2Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 6 to 7 hours or on high-heat setting for 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Transfer peppers to a serving plate. Serve with tomatoes from slow cooker.
Nutrition
240
Calories
3g
Total Fat
17g
Protein
34g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 240
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 3g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 1/2g
- 0%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 35mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 590mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 34g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 6g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 17g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 110%
- 110%
- Vitamin C
- 350%
- 350%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 2 Vegetable; 1 1/2 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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