no rice stuffed green peppers.....?

Why not just stuff them with ground beef (or ground turkey) and pieces of chopped peppers left over from cutting them up?

Something like this-

1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef

1 onion, finely chopped

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 3/4 cups salsa, divided

Chopped carrot as desired

Cheese (if allowed)

I modified this recipe-

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Fiesta-Stuffed-Pepper...

You may need to pierce the bottoms of the peppers to let the juices out - the rice and bread crumbs are supposed to absorb those juices.

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If you don't want the carby foods, leave the carrots alone also!! They are very high carb, almost as pure sugar as potatoes.

I use ground meat made into like a meatloaf with the seasonings. Put this in your peppers, set the peppers in baking dish with half inch of water, and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes to an hour.

No, I don't put rices, potatoes, or other "filler" stuff in my stuffed green peppers either. I used to, but the low carb food plan became a necessary life style adjustment so I don't even miss that stuff any more. I just adjusted all recipes to not include any of the foods that cause my glucose to rise to the moon and stay there for a while.

So brown some ground turkey, add minced garlic, chopped onions, add tomato sauce or diced or chopped tomatoes- some raisins and some pine nuts, and let cool, add an egg and mix well, stuff peppers with the mix- pour some tomato sauce in a baking dish and top with the peppers, cover with foil and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

I bake a pan of cornbread and mix with 2 cups ham, 1 can corn and 1 can of tomatoes juice and all. Then stuff your peppers and bake for 1 hour at 350.

Are you allowed to use any other grain, like quinoa or amaranth or barley? Those would be easily available in most large supermarkets and certainly in your local health food store. Are you allowed to have lentils? They'd do for stuffing a pepper, mixed with some garlic and oregano.

hm, that's a tough one...

cabbage I think will be too strong of a flavor and over powering. carrots could work, but when I make stuffed peppers, my husband doesn't like rice so I just leave it completely out of his and they turn out really good and are carb friendly. It has all of the flavor still and doesn't mess with the texture either.