Busy schedule? Now you can have just the right amount ready to serve two with the help of your slow cooker.
Slow-Cooker Couscous-Stuffed Peppers (Cooking for 2)
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 4 hr 15 min
- Servings 2
- Ingredients 14
Ingredients
- Reynolds™ Slow Cooker Liners
- 2 large bell peppers
- 1/4 pound ground beef
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1 small clove garlic, finely chopped
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Dash of ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1/3 cup uncooked couscous
- 1/2 cup water
- Pine nuts, if desired
- Fresh cilantro, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Place Reynolds™ Slow Cooker Liners inside a 5- to 6 1/2 -qt slow cooker bowl. Make sure that liner fits snugly against the bottom and sides of bowl and pull the top of the liner over rim of bowl.
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Step2Cut thin slice from stem end of each bell pepper to remove top of pepper. Remove seeds and membranes; rinse peppers.
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Step3In 10-inch skillet, cook beef, onion and garlic over medium heat about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown; drain. Stir in tomato sauce, salt, cumin, cinnamon and red pepper. Stir in couscous. Divide beef mixture evenly among peppers.
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Step4Pour water into lined slow cooker; stand peppers upright in cooker.
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Step5Cover and cook on low heat setting 4 to 6 hours or until peppers are tender. Garnish with pine nuts and cilantro.
Nutrition
300
Calories
9g
Total Fat
17g
Protein
43g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 300
- Calories from Fat
- 80
- Total Fat
- 9g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 0%
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 870mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 43g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 6g
- 0%
- Protein
- 17g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 28%
- 28%
- Vitamin C
- 100%
- 100%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 16%
- 16%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 2 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
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