Legal Chicken `N' Pepper Y'All - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. tomato juice
1/2 tsp. oregano leaves or to taste
1/2 tsp. garlic powder or to taste
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
artificial sweetener to equal to 1 tsp. sugar or to taste
2 tsp. dehydrated onion flakes
4 medium green peppers
1 c. sliced mushrooms
16 oz. cooked chicken, diced
2/3 c. coarsely chopped celery

Preparation

Combine tomato juice, oregano, garlic powder, salt, pepper, artificial sweetener and dehydrated onion flakes in saucepan; simmer 1 hour or until reduced to 3/4 cup. Cool. Parboil peppers 3 minutes; drain. Combine 1/4 of mushroom and celery; add chicken. Mix well and spoon mixture evenly into peppers. Place peppers in casserole dish. Spoon 2 tablespoons of tomato juice mixture over each pepper. Place remaining tomato juice mixture over mushrooms. Bake, covered, at 350\u00b0 for 30 minutes. Makes 4 servings.