Low Carb Stuffed Pepper

Ingredients

• Onions

  Raw

  ⅓ cup, chopped or 53g

• Garlic

  Raw

  3 cloves, minced or 9g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  ¼ cup, chopped or 25g

• Green peppers

  Sweet, green, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

  2 tbsp, chopped or 23g

• Ground turkey

  Poultry food products, raw

  1 lb or 454g

• Tomatoes

  Red, ripe, canned, packed in tomato juice

  ½ can or 95g

• Parsley

  Raw

  1 tbsp or 4g

• Italian Seasoning

  Shoppers Value

  1 ½ tsp or 6g

• Salt

  Table

  1 tsp or 6g

• Green bell pepper

  Sweet, green, raw

  4 medium or 476g

• Pizza sauce

  Canned, ready-to-serve

  ¼ cup or 63g

• Mozzarella cheese

  Part skim milk

  ¼ cup, diced or 33g

• Monterey cheese

  Includes Pepper Jack

  ¼ cup, shredded or 28g

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil over medium heat until onion softens, about 5 minutes.
3. Add green onions, minced green pepper, and sauté for about five minutes. Set onion, garlic and green pepper mixture aside.
4. Brown ground turkey and cook through, about 12 minutes.
5. Add onion, garlic, and green pepper mixture. Also, add diced tomatoes, parsley, italian seasoning, and salt. Mix well and cook another five minutes.
6. Stuff mixture inside hollow green peppers and place peppers in a baking dish. Top each stuffed pepper with about a tablespoon of pizza sauce. Mound each pepper with cheeses.
7. Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is golden brown.