Cooking Corner: Stuffed Orange Bell Peppers

We're well into October which means Halloween is on everyone's mind right now.

Our friend Carolyn Piguet with Piguet's Prime Time joins us in the Air Comfort Solutions Kitchen with a healthy stuffed-bell pepper recipe, with a bit of a spooky twist.

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Jack-o-lantern Stuffed Bell Peppers

Serves 6

6 orange bell peppers

1 1/2 lbs of ground beef

1 onion, diced

1 egg

1 cup milk

1 cup Italian bread crumbs

Sauce

2 Tbsp. mustard

1/2 cup ketchup

2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar

Choice 6 nicely shaped orange bell peppers and cut the tops off to look like the top of a jack-o-lantern. Scoop out the seeds, cut in some triangles in the sides to look like jack-o-lantern eyes and mouth. Place peppers in boiling water for about 5 minutes to help soften and partially blanch peppers.

Prepare a mixture of ground beef, dried bread crumbs, onion, egg and milk. Stuff the mixture in the pepper, leaving about 1/2 inch from the top to place the sauce of ketchup, mustard, and brown sugar.

Place the cap back on pepper and bake for 45 minutes, uncovered at 350 degrees.

Enjoy!