Aunt Virgie's Stuffed Green Bell Peppers

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 2 lbs ground chuck
• 1 (2 ounce) packet onion soup mix
• 1 cup rice, uncooked
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 tablespoon dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
• 1 teaspoon garlic pepper seasoning
• 1 teaspoon parsley flakes
• 3 large green peppers
• 6 ounces tomato paste
• 8 ounces tomato sauce
• 28 ounces crushed tomatoes
• 46 ounces v 8 vegetable juice
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon dried onion flakes
• 1 teaspoon dried garlic flakes

Recipe

• 1 place ground chuck in large mixing bowl. add next 8 ingredients. with clean, damp hands mix meat mixture together until well combined.
• 2 rinse green peppers and slice top offs. cut peppers in half and remove seeds.
• 3 make meatballs with approximately 2 tablespoons of ground chuck mixture and place in half sections of green peppers.
• 4 in large dutch oven, place meat stuffed pepper halves in bottom of pan. with remaining meat make more meatballs and arrange on top of peppers.
• 5 pour v-8 juice over all the meatballs. add tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes. with spoon spread tomato paste over top. sprinkle with red pepper flakes, onion and garlic flakes.
• 6 cook on medium low heat for approximately one hour or until meatballs are cooked through.
• 7 serve with mashed potatoes.