Sausage and bacon stuffed peppers recipe

Stuffed peppers
Stuffed peppers

Make this easy and yummy stuffed peppers recipe with cous cous, bacon and sausage.

Ingredients

To make 1 serving

  • Sausages (I use chipolatas, but any will do)
  • Bacon lardons (or just bacon cut up)
  • Cous cous (ready flavoured packet, I use a Mediterranean type flavour)
  • Pine nuts
  • 1 or 2 cloves of garlic (depending on how garlicky you like it)
  • A couple of sundried tomatoes
  • Grated cheese

How to make Stuffed peppers:

  1. Prepare peppers by cutting in half from top to bottom and scooping out middle with seeds
  2. Microwave the peppers for about 5 minutes on a medium setting until soft
  3. Cut sausages and bacon into little chunks
  4. Fry sausages until almost cooked, then add bacon, chopped onions and garlic to pan, cook for a further few minutes
  5. Prepare cous cous by adding boiling water and covering up for about 5 mins or until all water absorbed
  6. Cut up sundried tomatoes into small pieces
  7. Combine pine nuts, tomatoes, and fried mixture together and mix well
  8. Spoon mixture into peppers and grate a little cheese on top
  9. Cook in oven at 180 degrees/350F/gas 4 until cheese is a melted