Wheezin_Ed: I look at this and think it’ll be easy, and then I’ll try to carve a face into a pepper and reevaluate my life
lazercheesecake: I love it how it’s festive without actually containing any pumpkins! Like a stuffed poblano pepper with a modern twist.
There are a few ways to really bring out the flavor of the dish while retaining its fun. First brown your ground beef in the pan before introducing any vegetables. You may have noticed that the instructions include draining excess moisture after cooking off the meat. You’re losing so much flavor from the juices and spices in there. This is symptomatic of meat cooked at low temperatures which leads to steamed meat which is rather bland and can get very dry. Meat first and don’t crowd; you should hear the sizzling when you put it in. If you don’t wait, heat the pan longer. In addition, the maillard reaction adds so much depth, which you will need because of the added chicken stock and steaming the rice and veggies in the pepper. Let it happen.
Don’t be afraid to add a little more spice in there. Jalapenos, Cayenne, or other spices will give it a more mexican flair to the dish. Allspice and nutmeg will give you a nuttier, more fall/holiday-esque vide to it. Paprika, chorizo, and oregano for a more Spanish kick. Olive oil is good to add too, but don’t use it to cook. It has a low smoke point and can burn easily leaving a bitter taste in your food at the temperatures you should be cooking.
Other than that, this looks like a wonderful dish worth cooking up. Happy Fall season everyone!
Foghorn225: I use almost the same recipe, it is delicious.
When you eat the pepper with the filling.
Uncle_Retardo: [Edible Jack-O’-Lanterns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XDaFWPsC8) by Delish
**INGREDIENTS**
* 4 orange bell peppers
* extra-virgin olive oil
* kosher salt
* Freshly ground black pepper
* 1 Onion, finely chopped
* 2 garlic cloves, minced
* 2 tsp. chili powder
* 1 lb. ground beef
* 1 c. cooked white rice
* 1 c. chicken stock, divided
* 1 (15 oz) can fire-roasted tomatoes
* 1 c. shredded Monterey Jack, divided
**DIRECTIONS**
* Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
* Cut off (and reserve) the top of each pepper. Remove and discard the cores and seeds. Using a sharp paring knife, carve a Jack O’Lantern face into each pepper. Drizzle the inside of each pepper with olive oil and season generously with salt and pepper. Place the peppers upright in a large baking dish along with the pepper tops.
* Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a large nonstick skillet. Sauté onions until soft, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add beef and sauté until browned and cooked through, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon. Turn off the heat and drain the fat.
* Return skillet to stovetop over medium heat. Season with salt and pepper to taste and stir in the chili powder. Add the fire-roasted tomatoes, 1/2 cup chicken stock, cooked rice and 3/4 cup of cheese. Stir until the mixture is evenly combined.
* Divide rice and beef mixture between the hollowed out peppers. Top with cheese.
* Pour remaining 1/2 cup chicken stock into pan. Cover with foil and bake for about 30 minutes. Remove the foil and cook for another 10-15 minutes, until the peppers are tender and the cheese is melted.
bheklilr: I made this once but filled the peppers with spaghetti. The kids loved it, and I’m being asked to make it again this year by my 5yo. It’s actually fairly easy to do the peppers, and you can prep them pretty far in advance.
nimrodangerez: why did’nt they eat the pepper itself? it’s so good!
Ezl: Curious, why would you use chicken stock instead of beef stock since it’s ground beef based?
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harrysplinkett: 1. brown meat well.
2. remove meat, blot out some fat
3. onions + salt, sautee
4. garlic for 30 sec, then deglaze with a little stock
5. add beef back in, boil off most of the liquid real quick, season
6. add the rest
and this is how you keep the flavour in there. otherwise you either burn the garlic or just boil the meat. both of those options suck.
Relevant_Scrubs_link: Ohhh, these look awesome. Why do they put extra broth into the baking dish?
PrettyFly4AGreenGuy: Snack-O-Lanterns.
ItsTrue214: This seems good 🙂
andrewshepherdlego: This is the most action-packed cooking tutorial I’ve ever seen
KofCosmos: While cute in the gif, I feel those jack-o’-lantern faces would turn out to be one of those expectation vs. reality situations and they’d end up [looking like tortured souls instead](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/4e/b3/6b/4eb36b7d3d48499c36ff276071340010–laughing-so-hard-cant-stop-laughing.jpg).
Daedra2121: I made this once, it was amazing. This is definitely a recommended make:)
not_liz_lemon: looks great, I might try it!
SanFrancisco_69ers: That ghost scared the crap out of me
22PoundHouseCat: I thought the title said “Jell-O Stuffed Peppers” at first, and I gagged a little.
CurlyFern: This is super cute, I will make a vegetarian version. Thanks!
Reacher-Said-Nothing: Was anybody else unable to get a good look at the actual completed product, due to an overzealous use of crash zooms, smash cuts, giant text effects, camera shake, and whatever else they could cram in a 2 second scene?
CurryBouton: Nonono, do not drain, just reduce, maybe even partially boil the rice then finish the rice in that lovely meaty oniony juice.
BigT232: I’m hungry now and need these in my life, just got myself a new subreddit 🙂
Jackaloaf: It’s just chile relleno.
Igotsfeelingstho: I love the effort in making this gifrecipe adorable!
mr4fawkes: How would I substitute the chicken stock in this, or just leave it out?
Mt_cuddlesV2: How normal is it to eat the pepper with the filling? I’m doing it anyway when I make them but I’m still curious.
1want1want11: u/Anubis826 i wanna make this so bad lol
llDasll: I like to use Tony’s spice when I make this. Never though to make my peppers into jack-o-lanterns though!
Doingbadstuff: Omg
EdFinnerty: These are called Mac-O-Lanterns at our house
demenlin: i wish i could cook
SomedumbHick: All of these recipes call for a lot of cheese.
ShakeNBakey: I did this last year for a potluck!
My faces were…less than perfect
Albatross767: These are really cute! Only change for me is I’d add way more cheese.
Looks tasty!
ViciousPuddin: The extra stock in the pan is unnecessary and leaving the hats on while cooking stops the cheese from browning. Cute, but can be better.
VerisimilitudeInUs: You lost me at onions…
2bahKarro: Little bit of smoked paprika and ground cumin and ooohhh these would be phenomenal
xil3h: I feel like I need more bellpepper bowls in my life.
Thedirtybro: Thanks for the pepper, spooky boy
mcgaggen: why would you drain that juice only to add stock back?
also, you can add raisins for a little bit of sweetness, but I don’t know if it’ll work with cheese, never tried it before.
catcatmewow: What sides would I pair this with? Or do I even need sides?
Firstromance: So simple yet so easy for me to fuck up.
FadingFX: These would be far more useful if the amounts of each ingredient were there
SpiderGrenades: Was hoping for stuffed peppers that I could eat year round, guess I’ll keep looking for another recipe
rat_muscle: 3spoopy5me
linkandluke: Screw it I am trying this!
HollowLegMonk: 45 minutes seems like a lot of time to bake a stuffed pepper.
Zerufos: Did anyone else hear spooky organ music playing when they took the top off the Pepper at the beginning of the gif?
phyzicks: It might just be me but… ANYTIME I see a recipe video and they use THAT many Onions I instantly close out of it and forget about it, cause that’s fucking nasty… Some is ok but when you use almost as much onions as beef, it usually screams “I have no ability in judging taste so i make up for it with a ton of onions”… Please get real and accept that Onions are not that good and actually do not add anything worthwhile to a dish.
Somegeezer: > Drain
Why on earth would you get rid of all that flavour?
