Stuffed Green Peppers - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. extra lean ground beef
1 medium size onion
1 small can tomato paste
1 large can Italian stewed tomatoes
1 small can tomato sauce
2 c. minute rice
4 large green peppers
salt and pepper

Preparation

Brown ground beef, drain.
Chop onion, set aside.
Prepare minute rice per package directions.
Add onion, tomato paste, and tomato sauce to ground beef.
Simmer and mix over low heat.
Pour ground beef into large bowl and mix with rice.
Add 1/4 can Italian stewed tomatoes and mix together.
If mixture is too dry, add more stewed tomatoes.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Wash and cut 1/4 inch cap off of peppers.
Clean out peppers and save cap.
Fill each pepper with rice mix.
Put peppers in large baking dish, add leftover rice mix.
Pour remaining Italian stewed tomatoes over peppers and rice.
Bake covered at 350\u00b0 for 1 hour or until peppers are soft.