Mom's Yummy Stuffed Peppers

My mom's stuffed peppers are pure comfort food!  I love her vegetable soup, too!  Thanks Mom!  Happy Mother's Day!

Assemble your ingredients and then clean the bell peppers.  They will go into a glass casserole in a thin layer of water.  Place them in a 350 oven until they soften up.  Remove from the oven and drain and pat dry before stuffing.

Stuffed Peppers

1 1/2 lb. ground beef

1 C cooked and cooled rice

1/2 yellow onion, diced fine (1 TBSP butter)

1 can tomato sauce

1/2 C Italian bread crumbs

-Sea salt and black pepper to taste

-Extra tomato sauce, ketchup, leftover marinara with brown sugar for topping

-garlic salt for final sprinkle on top

  Mix the ground beef, rice and onion (that's been microwaved for 1 minute with a TBSP butter in a glass micro proof measuring cup),salt and pepper in a mixing bowl.  Place 1/3 of the mixture in a separate bowl and add the Italian bread crumbs (and a little extra rice if needed).

Roll the mixture with the crumbs into meatballs (sprinkle with a little garlic salt) and brown on a greased cookie sheet at 400 degrees.  Stuff peppers with the first bowl of filling.  Top with your choice of topping.  Mine was leftover marinara mixed with a little brown sugar.  Sprinkle with a little garlic salt.  Bake in same glass casserole for 25-30 minutes at 400 degrees.