Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed peppers is a child-hood favorite.  My Irish Grandmother would make them and their whole house would smell so amazing.  I do not have her recipe and even if I did - I couldn't replace the feeling of family and grandparents that a memory of stuffed peppers gives me.  So - I have my own take on it!  I make mine in the slow cooker and I use red peppers (they are sweeter than green and that is more appealing to the kids....and well my sweet tooth too!)  Here's my recipe:

Ingredients:

1 pound of ground beef
1 onion
1/4 cup uncooked rice
ketchup
oregano
2 cans stewed tomatoes (check for no high fructose corn syrup; you can actually make these from scratch and I have but I would say that the can is worth the time-savings)
red peppers (this makes enough for 4 peppers)

Clean the peppers - I discard the tops and clean the insides out.

Mix the ground beef, chopped onion, rice, and a fair squirt of ketchup (about 2 Tablespoons if you must measure)

Stuff the peppers

Lay on their side in the crock pot (keeps it from drying out)

mix in a bowl (I use the same bowl as before) the stewed tomatoes, the ketchup (about 3 tablespoons) and oregano (a good shake - about a teaspoon)

Pour this sauce on top and cook.  I have a setting that does 2 hours on high followed by however long you want it on low.  Some slow cookers get hot enough that you can do this on low and some will need to be set on high first.

Enjoy :-)