Stuffed Peppers (InstaPot)

Time: ~45 minutes
Complexity: Easy

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 4 bell peppers
  • 1 cup cooked rice
  • 0.5 lb lean ground turkey
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp garlic poweder
  • 1/2 onion, diced
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 3 tbsp breadcrumbs
  • 2 tsp italian seasoning
  • 2 tsp paprika
  • 2 tsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 cup shredded cheese (divided in half)
  • 14 oz can tomato sauce

Directions

  1. Put cup of water into inner liner of pressure cooker, place trivet for peppers to sit on.
  2. Rinse the peppers and cut tops off. Deseed and remove membrane.
  3. Add cooked rice to mixing bowl
  4. Add ground turkey, and all other ingredients except for half of the tomato sauce and half the cheese to mixing bowl. Mix to combine with rice.
  5. Fill each pepper with enough meat mixture to come a little bit off the top of the pepper. Don’t pack them too tightly!
  6. Place stuffed peppers on trivet in pot.
  7. Pour remaining tomato sauce on top of peppers
  8. Close lid and put steam release knob to sealing position
  9. Press Pressure Cook/Manual button, select 9 minutes. High pressure.
  10. After cooking ends, vent and do a quick release of the pressure.
  11. When you can open the lid, check internal temperature for 165 degrees. If not, put lid back on and wait 2-5 minutes and check again.
  12. Sprinkle reserved cheese on top of each pepper and put lid back on to melt.
  13. Remove peppers with tongs and serve