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Carb Smart Beef-Stuffed Peppers
with Couscous and Side Salad
A mix of spiced beef and couscous makes a wonderful filling for Middle Eastern-inspired stuffed peppers. This carb smart dinner is full of wholesome veggies.
Carb Smart (50 g carbohydrates or less) is based on a per serving calculation of the recipe's carbohydrate amount.
Ingredients: Ground beef • Green pepper • Sweet bell pepper • Roma tomatoes • Moroccan couscous (durum wheat semolina) (wheat) • Feta cheese (pasteurized milk, partly skimmed milk, water, salt, lipase, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme, cellulose, natamycin, calcium chloride) (milk) • Spinach • Yogurt sauce (cream, pasteurized milk, milk protein concentrate, yogurt (partly skimmed milk, skim milk powder, bacterial culture), sour cream (milk ingredients, modified corn starch, guar gum, carrageenan, locust bean gum, sodium citrate, bacterial culture), cucumber, garlic, lemon, vinegar, modified cornstarch, water, canola oil, salt, white pepper, herbs, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Turkish spice blend (paprika powder, spices, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, herbs, oleoresin paprika, canola oil, silicon dioxide) (sulphites) • Red wine vinegar (wine vinegar, potassium sorbate, sulphites) (sulphites) • Parsley.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
250 g
Ground Beef
1 unit(s)
Sweet Bell Pepper
1 unit(s)
Green Bell Pepper
½ cup
Feta Cheese, crumbled
(Contains Milk)
½ cup
Couscous
(Contains Wheat)
56 g
Baby Spinach
1 unit(s)
Tomato
7 g
Parsley
½ tbsp
Red Wine Vinegar
(Contains Sulphites May contain Egg, Fish, Milk, Mustard, Tree nuts, Sesame, Soy, Wheat)
1 tbsp
Turkish Spice Blend
(Contains Sulphites May contain Sulphites, Milk, Tree nuts, Wheat, Mustard, Triticale, Peanuts, Soy, Sesame)
3 tbsp
Yogurt Sauce
(Contains Milk)
Not included in your delivery
2.66 tbsp
Oil*
0.13 tsp
Salt*
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Instructions
- Halve peppers, then remove the inside cores and seeds to make bowl shapes (keep the stems on).
- Roughly chop parsley.
- Core, then cut tomato into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Add half the tomatoes, half the vinegar (use all for 4 ppl) and 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil to a large bowl. (TIP: We love using olive oil in this recipe.) Season with salt and pepper, then toss to combine.
- Place half the spinach over top. Do not toss until just before serving.
- Place peppers cut-side down on an unlined baking sheet.
- Coat the outside of each pepper half with 1/2 tsp oil. Season with salt and pepper.
- Broil in the middle of the oven until tender-crisp, 8-10 min.
- Carefully remove from the oven. Flip peppers, cut-side up and set aside.
- Meanwhile, add 2/3 cup (1 1/3 cups) water and 1/8 tsp (1/4 tsp) salt to a medium pot. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Once boiling, remove from heat, then add couscous. Stir to combine.
- Cover and let stand for 5 min.
- When couscous is tender, fluff with a fork.
- Meanwhile, heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- When hot, add beef to the dry pan. Cook, breaking up beef into smaller pieces, until no pink remains, 4-5 min.**
- Carefully drain and discard excess fat.
- Stir in Turkish Spice Blend, remaining tomatoes and remaining spinach until spinach wilts, 1 min.
- Remove from heat.
- Add couscous, parsley, half the feta, 2 tbsp (1/4 cup) water and 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil to pan with with beef mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Stuff each pepper with beef and couscous mixture. Reserve any leftover filling to serve.
- Broil stuffed peppers in the middle of the oven until filling is warmed through, 4-6 min.
- Let stuffed peppers cool for 5 min before serving.
- Meanwhile, toss salad to combine.
- Divide stuffed peppers and salad between plates.
- Serve any remaining beef and couscous filling alongside.
- Sprinkle remaining feta over salad.
- Drizzle yogurt sauce over stuffed peppers.
