Asian Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers

I was talking with a friend the other night about cooking with ginger. In Chinese cooking, you use a lot of ginger. At my parent's place, they always have ginger in their pantry. For this recipe, I added ginger to add some kick to the normal pepper filling recipe and it turned out really well. I even used less seasoning to increase the flavor of this natural food.


The end product!!



Stuffed pepper filling.


Ingredients
* 20 mini sweet peppers (These peppers come in several sizes so when buying them, try to get the medium size. Remember, you are going to stuff them cut sideways, so you don’t want them to be too small.)
* ½ tbsp olive oil
* ¼ tsp of salt
* ½ lb ground beef
* 3 tbsp soy sauce
* ½ tsp ginger
* 1½ tsp chopped garlic
* 2 cups of cooked brown rice(refrigerated overnight)

Directions
1) Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees. Rinse all the peppers in cold water. Then cut off the tops, and pull out all of the seeds. Set aside.

2) In a large bowl, mix together the ground beef, 1 tablespoon of soy and ¼ tsp of the ground ginger in a mixing bowl.

3) In a non stick pan mix together olive oil with the chopped garlic. Cook on high until just browned. Once the garlic is browned, add the meat and cook until brown, about 4 minutes. Then mix in the rice. Remove the mixture from the heat.

4) Fill each pepper and place it on a oil coated baking sheet and bake for about 10 mins or until the edges of each pepper turn to brown.