Tasty Sweet Potato and Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers Recipes

Sweet Potato and Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers. This Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Stuffed Peppers recipe is so versatile since you can stuff your peppers with lots of different ingredients, such as rice, beans, veggies, and meat. I chose to make my stuffed peppers with only sweet potatoes and ground turkey because those were the ingredients I had on hand. Place peppers in a square casserole dish, cut side up, and fill with turkey mixture.

Add tomato sauce, ground chili pepper, salt and pepper to taste. Add onions and cook until onions are done. See more ideas about Cooking recipes, Recipes, Healthy recipes. You can cook Sweet Potato and Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato and Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers

1. You need 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
2. You need 1 pound of ground turkey.
3. Prepare 1 of large sweet potato.
4. You need 3 of large bell peppers.
5. Prepare 1 of onion.
6. It's 2 cloves of garlic chopped.
7. It's 1/3 cup of tomato sauce.
8. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
9. Prepare 2 teaspoon of chili powder.
10. You need of Shredded cheese and fresh parsley.

Top each pepper half with a pinch of oregano and the tomato sauce. Having them as a side works so well with the ground turkey and tomato meat sauce because they add an earthy complimentary sweetness. I've always thought that stuffed peppers taste good with some sweetness added. Growing up, we would sprinkle a little bit of brown sugar on top.

Sweet Potato and Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. In a skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat..
3. Add ground turkey and garlic. Stir occasionally and cook for about 10 minutes..
4. Add onions and cook until onions are gold brown..
5. Add the sweet potato, cover the skillet and cook until they are tender. It is about 8mins. Don’t forget to stir occasionally. Add tomato sauce, ground chili pepper, salt and pepper to taste. If necessary, add more olive oil or a little bit of water to cook the sweet potato..
6. Arrange the peppers in a baking dish. The cavity side is facing up..
7. Fill each bell pepper halve with the ground turkey-sweet potato mix. Bake uncovered for about 30 minutes, or until the peppers are cooked and soft..
8. Remove from the oven and garnish with cheese and parsley..

Cover the skillet with a lid and reduce the heat to medium to cook the sweet potato faster. Or, you can first cook the sweet potato and add it into the pan when the ground turkey is cooked. Add sweet potato, broth, smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Serve with avocado and if desired, mint.