My Own Slow Cooker Stuffed Bell Peppers

Total Time: 7 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 7 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 green peppers
• 1 lb extra lean ground beef, i prefer 90% lean
• 3/4 cup long grain rice, raw
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 (14 ounce) can original stewed tomatoes, chopped
• 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can tomato soup
• 1/2-3/4 cup chili sauce
• 1/2-1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh black pepper

Recipe

• 1 wash peppers, cut tops off and remove core. drain and chop stewed tomatoes, reserving liquid.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl combine ground beef, rice, onion, garlic, 1/2 of the chopped stewed drained tomatoes, salt and pepper.
• 3 stuff peppers with this mixture and sit in the crockpot standing up. trim bottoms of any especially wonky peppers though they should stand and up packed nicely.
• 4 combine tomato soup, chili sauce, the rest of the chopped tomatoes and reserved stewed tomato liquid. check the consistency as you may not need all of the reserved tomato liquid.
• 5 pour sauce over peppers.
• 6 cook on low 6-8 hours or until tender. this can take less or more time as crockpots differ wildly.