Ingredients
6 red or green bell peppers, or a mixture of colors
1 lb Wampler's Farm Sausage (hot, mild or Italian)
1 lb ground beef
1 diced small onion
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup Rao's Pasta Sauce (or your brand preference)
2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375F
In large pan, heat a small amount of olive oil and cook ground beef until brown.
Remove the ground beef to a bowl.
In same pan, add a tiny amount of olive oil, cook sausage until brown.
Add the browned sausage to the bowl with the ground beef.
Slice tops off peppers
Clean out inside of peppers
Chop the pepper tops and bottoms and onions.
Add a bit more oil to pan and cook chopped peppers and onions for about 3-4 minutes, until starting to soften.
Turn off heat and put meat back into pan with peppers and onions.
Add about 1 cup Marinara sauce
Season mixture with salt and pepper to taste.
Let mixture cool, then mix in cheeses.
Put the peppers in the pan standing upright.
Stuff each pepper with mixture, using spoon and pressing in tightly until full.
Put a pinch of Mozzarella cheese on the top of each pepper.
Cover the dish loosely with foil, tenting it up so it doesn’t touch the tops of the peppers.
Bake, covered with foil about 30 minutes.
Take off foil and bake about 20 minutes more, until cheese is melted completely and top is slightly browned.
Serve and Enjoy.