Bulgur Stuffed Bell Peppers
Ingredients
- 4 bell peppers
- 1 dollop olive oil
- 1 small onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 1/3 cup bulgur - (250g)
- 1 398 ml can diced tomatoes
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves - (or 1/2 tsp dried)
- 1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary - (or 1/2 tsp dried)
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F (180 °C)
- Heat a deep pan or a pot over medium heat.
- Peel and chop onion and peel and crush garlic.
- Once pan/pot is hot add a dollop of olive oil, wait a half a minute until it's hot and then add chopped onion and crushed garlic. Sauté until translucent.
- Add bulgur and sauté for a couple of minutes.
- Add can of diced tomatoes, fill up can with water and add to bulgur, too.
- Add herbs and stock cube, mix well and bring to the boil.
- Once boiling remove from heat and stir well.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Wash bell peppers, cut off tops and remove seeds.
- Fill peppers with bulgur filling and place bell pepper top back on.
- Place peppers in an ovenproof dish one next to the other so they won't fall over.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes.
Happy New Year to all of you!!! We’ll start the year with a bit of an inverted blog post design. I’ve decided to post the recipe – to not only these deliciously moist and extremely flavorful Bulgur Stuffed Bell Peppers but all other recipes in the future – first, so people visiting Green Healthy Cooking for its recipes only, can find it right away without having to scroll down. For the rest of you lovely people that ARE interested in all the wonderful things I have to communicate the world, don’t worry, I’ll write it all up aaafter the recipe ;)
And while we’re at it, I have 12 things to tell you. In Mexico they have this wonderful tradition that at midnight on New Year’s Eve the radio and tv and all broadcast 12 chimes during which you eat 1 grape for every chime while thinking of a wish and then down a glass of cider or champaign for all of them to come true. Isn’t this wonderful? After this tradition you have to hug absolutely everybody at the party wishing them a happy New Year.
I’ve done this for 8 consecutive New Year’s Eves now (ever since I live with my Mexican husband) and every year 10-11 of my wishes came true. There was always one or two that didn’t come true. While I believe that this is a pretty good rate, 2016 shall be the year were all our wishes come true!!
Write down your wishes/goals so you can remember to go over them at the end of this year. Here are mine:
I wish for..
…inner peace for all humans on this planet as with inner peace world peace can be restored
…overall health for my family, friends and myself
…deep happiness for my family, friends and myself
…my marriage to continue to be filled with love and understanding
…more patience and compassion with my children so they must never doubt that I love them unconditionally
…my children to feel joy every single day
…Green Healthy Cooking to grow to a degree it can generate a fair income for all the invested work hours
…my husband’s efforts at work to be rewarded
…my husband and I to be able to take our kids to see their Mexican grandma and Mickey Mouse in L.A.
…inspiration for many new wonderful recipes
…many play dates, brunches, lunches and dinner parties to enjoy with friends and family
…me to be able to manage my time in a way there is time left to read…..not about blogging, food, photography, marketing or child raising, discipline, etc….just literature!
I encourage you to make your own list and to visualize all your wishes and goals and to work towards their fulfillment. If you want to make sure not to loose the list and if you don’t mind it being public I recommend you post it in the comments here. I will post the link to this recipe post again on Social Media on December 31 as a reminder to all of us to go threw our list :)
Happy New Year and may all our wishes come true! Starting with getting back to that slim waistline of ours through palate-pleasing Green Healthy Recipes like these Bulgur Stuffed Bell Peppers which by the way taste amazing even when reheated so they make the perfect take to work/school lunch the next day. If you are looking for more MUST TRY recipes for this year, check out my last post with Green Healthy Cooking’s compilation of its most delicious recipes from last year titled 10 Recipes You Must Try in 2016.
Zerin says
what a sweet post Lorena, you’re a great mum ❤️
Stéphanie says
Hello Lorena,
I wish you a wonderful 2016 year, and that all your dreams come true, especially the blog to get bigger and bigger, and you become a worldwide kitchen and mum star, as you deserve ;-)
What a lovely south American tradition… I start the discussion with my 12 wishes :
– Obviously joy and peace in the world, more respect, love and comprehension between human beings, not the frenetic search of power and money
– Having an healthy second baby (and an easy pregnancy)
– My family to be healthy and protected by God
– That my daughter feels very happy, happy to live, to learn and gain good lifetime friends
– To be perfectly in love with my husband, share magic moments, just the two of us
– My husband to find a stable job in geology, continue his work passion that respect our family balance
– Find my way, a work where i can learn, have fun, and a good balance with family life
– My husband to be happy and enjoy being a dad
– To be a good guide for my daughter, on the life path
– Be more relax, less fussy, accept life as it is, try (and succeed) to be happy
– That each member of the family can have fun with a hobby (danse, music, reading etc.) and blossom
– To be surronded by good friends, spend good moments, discover things, learn, talk, go in holidays, to theatres and concerts… just enjoy life!
See you at the end of the 2016 year ;-)
Lorena says
Thank you Stéphanie! Your wishes sound amazing and I really hope we can check them all off on the 31st of December. Talk to you about those in 50 weeks :)