Stuffed Peppers

Last night we had Stuffed Peppers.  I got the idea from this recipe, but I changed it so much that I'll just put my recipe below.  I wanted to use what I had and keep the costs down.  This was very good and I plan to make it again.  This recipe was really cheap because the ingredients are often BOGO, so stock up on diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, broth, and sausage when you can!

Ingredients:
1/2 cup rice
1 cup water
1/2 onion
1/2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup beef broth
1/8 tsp crushed red pepper
1 tube of Jimmy Dean ground sausage
1/2 can diced tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 green peppers
1/2 cup parmasean cheese
shredded mozzarella cheese to top

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Bring rice and water to a boil, turn to medium low and simmer for around 20 minutes or until rice is done cooking.

Cook diced onion in olive oil until tender.  Place half of the onion in a large bowl, leave the other half in the skillet.

Add tomato sauce, beef broth, and crushed red pepper to onion in skillet and cook for about 1 minute.  Pour the mixture into a casserole dish.

Combine rice with the other half of the onion and stir together with Jimmy Dean sausage, diced tomatoes, garlic, and parmasean cheese.

cut the 2 green peppers in half and take out seeds.  Stuff the rice mixture equally into the 4 pepper halves.  Top with mozzarella cheese.

Cover dish with foil.  Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes.

Remove foil and bake an additional 20-25 minutes.

Enjoy!