American
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 bell peppers
- 1 cup quinoa
- 15 oz canned black beans
- 1 cup corn kernels
- 14 oz diced tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Rinse the quinoa and simmer it in the vegetable broth, covered, until tender and the liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 375F and slice the tops off the peppers, removing the seeds.
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet and cook the onion and garlic until soft, then stir in the cumin and chili powder.
- Fold in the cooked quinoa, black beans, corn, diced tomatoes, cilantro, and salt.
- Stand the peppers in a baking dish, fill with the quinoa mixture, and add a splash of water to the dish.
- Cover with foil and bake until the peppers are tender, about 35 minutes.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Quinoa Stuffed Peppers, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Quinoa Stuffed Peppers carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on bell pepper, quinoa, and bean.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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