Easiest Way to Make Tasty Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta

Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta.

You can cook Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta

1. You need of large bell peppers.
2. Prepare of lean ground beef.
3. It's of steamed rice.
4. Prepare of diced tomatoes.
5. Prepare of Tomato Sauce.
6. It's of small onion finely chopped.
7. You need of chopped parsley.
8. You need of granulated garlic.
9. You need of Italian seasoning.
10. It's of Salt.
11. You need of pepper.
12. You need of Red pepper flakes.
13. It's of granulated sugar.
14. It's of Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
15. It's of shredded mozzarella.
16. You need of Pasta (your choice) I use spaghetti, linguine, or Angel Hair.

Italian Stuffed Peppers w Pasta step by step

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Cook rice.
3. Boil water in a steamer sauce pan. Prepare peppers by cutting tops off them. Save tops to chop and cook in beef stuffing. Clean inside of peppers removing all seeds. Place in steamer and allow to cook for 8-10 minutes until they are hot and softer. Your choice how soft or crunchy you want them. Remember they will soften more in the baking process. Remove from heat and set aside..
4. In skillet brown the beef. Drain any excess fat. Then add olive oil to keep moist and add additional flavor. Add 1/2 cup chopped parsley, chopped onions, 1 tbsp garlic, 1 tbsp, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper..
5. Add rice to browned beef. Mix thoroughly. Set aside..
6. In a saucepan add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, rest of chopped parsley, 1 tbsp granulated garlic, 1 tbsp Italian seasoning, salt, sugar, red pepper flakes, and EVOO. Heat for 6-8 minutes. Remove from heat..
7. Place pepper cups in large baking dish. Fill each one completely with beef and rice mixture. Pour tomato sauce over peppers completely. Cover with foil. Bake in oven for 35-40 minutes..
8. Cook pasta to al dente in boiling water. Approximately 8-10 minutes..
9. Remove peppers from oven. Remove foil and cover with mozzarella cheese. Bake in oven 5-10 minutes until golden brown..
10. Serve peppers with a side of pasta as shown above. Enjoy..