Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a awesome dish, southwest inspired quinoa stuffed peppers. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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These Southwest Beef & Quinoa Stuffed Peppers make a hearty, healthy, protein packed meal that's amazingly delicious and quick and easy to prepare. Bell peppers can be stuffed with just about anything, but this version of stuffed peppers is protein-packed, gluten-free, and even vegan. if you omit the cheese. The filling — made with canned black beans, corn, and quinoa — gets cooked with Southwestern spices, and is right at home inside sweet.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have southwest inspired quinoa stuffed peppers using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southwest Inspired Quinoa Stuffed Peppers:

1. Prepare bell peppers - any color, halved, seeds and ribs removed
2. Get prepared quinoa
3. Take yellow corn - drained
4. Make ready black beans - drained and rinsed
5. Make ready diced tomatoes - do not drain (I used garlic with olive oil tomatoes)
6. Take chili powder
7. Get paprika
8. Get cumin
9. Prepare salt & pepper
10. Take Shredded cheese (I used a blend of sharp cheddar and pepper jack)

These Southwest Beef & Quinoa Stuffed Peppers make a hearty, healthy, protein packed meal that's amazingly delicious and quick and easy to prepare. Sweet bell peppers, stuffed with southwestern-inspired goodness. This incredibly versatile dinner can be customized for vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters In the case of these Southwestern Black Bean & Quinoa Stuffed Peppers, they can be made a myriad of ways. Generously stuff halved peppers with quinoa mixture until all peppers are full, then cover the dish with foil.

Steps to make Southwest Inspired Quinoa Stuffed Peppers:

1. Prepare Quinoa to package directions. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. While quinoa is cooking prep your bell peppers, arrange in a 9x13" casserole dish, cut side up. I had pretty large peppers so I only needed 3, but if you have medium to small peppers you will need 4.
3. When quinoa is done, remove pan from stove. Add corn, black beans, tomatoes, chili powder, paprika, and cumin directly to quinoa in pan. Stir to combine until seasoning is fully incorporated. Taste mixture and add salt and pepper if desired.
4. Spoon equal amount of mixture into each prepared pepper until all mixture is used up. Tent dish with foil and place in oven for 30-45 minutes depending on how soft you want your peppers. We like ours very soft so I went with 45 min.
5. Remove from oven, carefully uncover, top peppers with 1/4-1/3 cup shredded cheese each (amount per pepper depends on if you used 3 or 4). Return dish to oven uncovered, bake 10 more minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly. Remove, let rest for 5 minutes and serve. Top with sour cream, salsa and/or guacamole if desired.

I used thawed Birdseye C&W Ultimate Southwest Blend (corn, black beans, poblanos and roasted onion) in. These peppers were inspired by my desire to create more hearty, make-ahead dinner options that are both Since I will always have a soft spot for Mexican food, I landed on these Southwest stuffed peppers as another. The stuffed peppers however I was not a fan of, sorry mom! It was like a big chunk of meatloaf stuffed inside a green bell pepper. Over the years I have been on a mission to update that Stuffed Pepper recipe and I think I nailed it with these Southwestern Turkey Quinoa Stuffed Peppers.

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