Pizza-Stuffed Peppers

In a recent final result of Pillsbury's Pot Pies & Casseroles cookbook, I industrial plant life a recipe for Pizza-Stuffed Peppers, made alongside orzo pasta instead of rice, which intrigued me. They were real tardily to brand together with were quite good. This would live a slap-up recipe for kids. 1/2 loving cup uncooked orzo
4 cups boiling water
6 pocket-size bell peppers
10 ounces solid position down turkey
1/2 loving cup diced pepperoni
15 oz. of pizza sauce
1½ cups mozzarella shredded
1/2 loving cup water

Cook the orzo inwards iv cups boiling H2O for three minutes (see note). Drain together with rinse alongside mutual frigidity H2O together with hence laid aside. Cut happen of bell pepper together with construct clean out seeds together with membranes, rinse. If pepper does non sit down straight, cut back a niggling off the bottom.
Brown solid position down turkey together with pepperoni over medium-high oestrus for 4-6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until turkey is non longer pinkish together with hence drain well. Stir inwards pizza sauce, one loving cup of cheese together with the partially cooked pasta. Divide mixture evenly betwixt the bell peppers.

Spray a 5-6 quart boring cooker alongside vegetable spray together with pour inwards 1/2 loving cup water. Stand filled bell peppers upright inwards boring cooker, supercede bell pepper tops. Put lid on together with laid upwards on depression for iv to five hours. Just earlier serving, take pepper tops together with hand alongside remaining cheese, laid upwards five to 10 minutes to a greater extent than or until cheese is melted.

To take bell peppers from boring cooker, elevator out alongside large slotted spoon, using tongs to back upwards peppers (do non squeeze).

I didn't brand mine inwards the crockpot. Instead, I pre-cooked the empty bell peppers (wrapped inwards plastic wrap) for three minutes inwards the microwave. I together with hence filled them alongside the filling mixture together with baked them inwards a 350 marking oven for 25 minutes. I together with hence topped them alongside lots of cheese (more than the recipe calls for) together with baked them about other five minutes or hence until the cheese was all melty.

NOTE: There are several ways to pre-cook the empty bell peppers before y'all fill upwards them. You tin mail away blanch them inwards boiling water, exactly I uncovering that microwaving them works better.

NOTE: If y'all work my method of baking these bell peppers, laid upwards the orzo for the sum ix minutes earlier mixing it alongside the residue of the ingredients. I too added close a loving cup of chopped mushrooms to meat mixture during the concluding business office of its cooking time.