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stuffed pepper soup
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The BEST Stuffed Pepper Soup

Stuffed Peppers without all the work and easier to eat!

Ingredients

  • 1.5 lbs. Ground Beef - you can also use turkey, sausage or a combo.
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • ½ tsp Pepper
  • ½ small onion
  • 2 tsp Garlic - minced
  • 1 cup Pepper - Orange (medium peper)
  • 1 cup Pepper - Green (medium pepper)

BROTH MIXTURE

  • 4 cups Chicken broth - low sodium (about one carton)
  • 1 tsp Italian seasoning
  • 14.5 oz Tomato - canned and diced
  • 24 oz Sauce - Tomato sauce canned - flavored
  • 2 ½ tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 small box Orzo (you will have extra)

Instructions

PREP TIME

  • Onions - dice them small. Garlic - if you did not buy minced, then mince the garlic. Peppers - ROUGHLY cut these up.

THE MEAT

  • Saute' the onions and garlic in butter, just long enough to release the flavor.
  • Add the meat, salt and pepper adn brown the meat
  • Add the peppers when the meat is half way cooked, this will absorb some of the grease
  • drain remaining grease when meat is browned

THE BROTH

  • You can either add this to the meat when it is finished or you can start it in a 2nd pot and then combine - adding the meat to the broth when it is drained.
  • combine the Tomatoes, Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce and Italian Seasonings - simmer
  • let it simmer for about 30minutes so all the flavors can marry together.

THE ORZO

  • Cook separately so that you can use the remainder later.

PLATE IT

  • We give the kids 1/2 cup of the orzo and 3/4 of the stuffed pepper mix... that seems to be the perfect amount for them with no waste.
  • LEFTOVERS - I placed these in mason jars with some orzo in the middle.

SLOWCOOKER INSRUCTIONS - freezer to crockpot

  • chop everything up and dump into ziplock bag - except broth
  • Yes - add the raw meat in, break it up when you pop it in the bag
  • Freeze
  • Pull out of freezer the night before and thaw in the fridge
  • Dump into crockpot and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours - be certain to dump the broth in at this time as well.
  • we suggest making the orzo separately and plate when you serve. This will allow you to use the leftovers a litle better. If you do not want to use orze - rice goes well too.