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Ingredients
Stuffed Peppers with Couscous
- Ingredients
- 14 ozs dried Apricot
- 2 ½ ozs raisins (4 TBSP.)
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 9 ozs Couscous
- 16 ozs Vegetable broth
- 3 ozs green Peas (frozen)
- 2 mint
- 2 cilantro
- 5 ozs peeled chopped Tomatoes (can)
- salt
- peppers
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 4 Bell pepper (yellow and red mixed)
- 8 ozs Tomato sauce
- ½ oz parsley
Chop apricots and mix with raisins, garam masala and couscous in a bowl. Bring vegetable broth to a boil and pour over couscous, cover and let swell for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook peas in boiling water for about 5 minutes. Then rinse with cold water and drain. Wash herbs, shake dry and chop. Mix with tomatoes and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
Halve, seed and wash the peppers. Mix the couscous with the peas and season with pepper and salt. Fill into the bell pepper halves and spread the herb tomatoes on top.
Season tomatoes sauce with salt and pepper and pour into a baking dish. Put the bell pepper halves in and bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C /400˚ F for about 10-15 minutes. Meanwhile, wash parsley, shake dry and chop. Remove peppers from oven, sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 464 cal. | (22 %) | ||
| Protein | 18 g | (18 %) | ||
| Fat | 2 g | (2 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 89 g | (59 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
| Roughage | 19.4 g | (65 %) |
Healthy, because
Peppers not only taste nice and aromatic, they also provide us with a lot of immune-boosting vitamin C. Dried apricots score with a lot of potassium, which has a blood pressure-lowering, relaxing and clarifying effect on the body. Tasty and sweet they are also.
Even smarter
Ideally, you should use whole-grain couscous (made from spelt, for example), as this contains even more fiber than the conventional version. This is available, for example, in a well-stocked health food store.