Low Carb Recipe - Stuffed Bell Peppers and Cabbage
Eating a nice big steak for dinner, some succulent roasted chicken,
or some spicy pork ribs sure makes the low carb diet look good, but we
all want to change up our meals from time to time for variety. Here are
some simple recipes a little diversity from the meat and salad routine.
NOTE: Carb counts can vary on these depending on the brand of
ingredients you use and the amounts. They’re NOT no carb recipes, but
LOW carb recipes. So in the first phase of the Atkins diet, these might
not be right for you, but soon after they will. Talk to your doctor
before going on any kind of diet.
Low Carb Stuffed Green Peppers
Sounds good already, doesn’t it. These are real simple to make and
the recipe leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
1 ½ lbs of ground beef
1/4 to ½ cup each chopped mushrooms, onions
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
a table spoon of mustard
2 teaspoons Chilli powder (optional)
1 teaspoon of cumin (optional)
garlic (1 to 2 tablespoons), salt and pepper to taste
Take 1 ½ lbs of ground beef, put in a mixing bowl and liberally
sprinkle it with garlic and salt and pepper to taste. Chop up some
mushrooms, onions (1/4 to ½ cup each) and add to the beef. Mix about 2
teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, a table spoon of mustard, 2 teaspoons
Chilli powder and 1 of cumin (both optional), one ½ small can of Mexican
tomato sauce (or good low carb tomato sauce), 1 cup of your favorite
shredded cheese, and one or two eggs with the beef.
Cut 3 green bell peppers in half lengthwise and clean out all the
seeds and membranes. Stuff the halves with the well mixed ground beef
mixture and place them in a baking pan in about ½ inch of water.
Cover the peppers and beef with the remainder of the tomato sauce or
if you’re a redneck, cover it with diet low carb ketchup. Loosely cover
with foil and bake at 176degC for 1 ¼ to 1 ½ hours. Peppers should
be a dull green. Pull them out and let them rest a few minutes.
These are wonderful, and you can add a cup or so of crushed pork
rinds to replace the bread that some people put in meat loafs, or
anything you can think of to tailor them to your like. If your mama made
meatloaf and stuffed peppers with rice, try very finally chopping a cup
or two of cauliflower in mixing it in with the mixture. You may find
this to be more interesting than it appears at first glance.
You can also mix ground pork or sausage to make it even richer. Makes
3 good sized serving and covers most of your veggie intake for the day.
Plus you’ve got your dairy in it for calcium and vitamin D.
HINT: Try the same meat mixture recipe in making stuffed zucchini.
Instead of the bell pepper, just add everything into a bell pepper, just
slice a zucchini in half lengthwise, scoop out the insides and chop it
and add it into the meat mixture. Stuff it into the zucchini and top
with extra shredded cheese or parmesan. Yum Yum!
Variation: Stuffed Cabbage Rolls - Take All The Ingredients
for the stuffed pepper recipe and wrap them in large parboiled cabbage
leaves about 2 layers thick. Stick the edges to together with soaked
toothpick. Follow the rest of the instructions.
Another Variation: Low Carb Cabbage Casserole – Chop up a
small head of cabbage into large bite size chunks or leaves and parboil
unit it’s becoming soft. Drain and put in a pot and mix in all the other
ingredients stirring well. Cover and simmer on medium low for about 40
minutes (you might need to add a little beef broth to keep it moist, but
go light).
