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stuffed green peppers/kidney friendly

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Smokeygirlxo avatar
Miami, FL
Updated on Feb 8, 2012

My dad loves stuffed peppers and this is the healthy kidney friendly dialysis patient friendly way of making them! He gets to have one of his favorite foods, enjoy the great taste and still remain faithful to the diet he needs in order for the dialysis to be beneficial! Found this at davita.com and just tweaked seasonings a bit equivalent to: 2 meat 1 vegetable, medium potassium 1 starch 1 fat Carbohydrate 1 Calories 259 Protein 16 g Carbohydrates 20 g Fat 12 g Cholesterol 49 mg Sodium 152 mg Potassium 313 mg Phosphorus 132 mg Calcium 29 mg Fiber 2.0 g

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Ingredients

  • - 6 green peppers
  • - 2 pounds ground beef or turkey
  • - 4 tsp unsalted margarine, divided
  • - 1/2 cup chopped onion
  • - 6 tablspoons mild thick and chunky style salsa
  • - 2 tsp mrs dash onion herb seasoning
  • - 1 tsp garlic powder
  • - 1 tsp onion powder
  • - 3 cups cooked rice
  • - 1 c water
  • - 1 c soft white bread crumbs
  • - 1 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
  • - 1 1/2 tsp paprika
  • - 1/2 tsp pepper
  • DIALYSIS PATIENT SERVING IS ONE HALF OF A PEPPER. SO THIS WOULD TECHNICALLY SERVE 12. MAY CUT THIS IN HALF TO SERVE 6. I DOUBLED IT IN ORDER TO FEED MY WHOLE FAMILY AND HAVE SOME TO FREEZE FOR MOM TO MAKE FOR DAD ON DAYS I AM NOT HOME TO COOK

How To Make stuffed green peppers/kidney friendly

  • Step 1
    Cut tops off peppers and clean out insides. (or slice peppers in half lengthwise and clean out insides) Parboil 4 minutes.
  • Step 2
    In a large frying pan cook ground beef until fully cooked. Drain meat of all drippings in a coliander and keep meat in coliander till ready to use.
  • Step 3
    Sauté onion in 1 teaspoon margarine until the onion is cooked and translucent.
  • Step 4
    Add salsa, Mrs. Dash® herb seasoning,garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, cooked rice and meat. Stir to combine.
  • Step 5
    Stuff green pepper with the meat and rice mixture, and put peppers in a shallow baking pan. Add a 1/2 cup water to the pan around the peppers.
  • Step 6
    Combine bread crumbs, poultry seasoning and melted margarine.
  • Step 7
    Sprinkle over stuffed peppers.
  • Step 8
    Cover baking pan and bake at 350 for 40 to 60 minutes or until cooked thru. (timing depends on whether you cut tops off peppers or sliced peppers in half lengthwise)
  • Step 9
    Once completely cooked remove lid and allow to cook about 5 minutes longer to brown up the tops.
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