Ingredients
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2 lbs ground chuck
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1 (2 ounce) packet onion soup mix
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2 tablespoons ketchup
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1 tablespoon dry mustard
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1 teaspoon pepper
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1 teaspoon lemon pepper
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1 teaspoon garlic pepper seasoning
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1 teaspoon parsley flakes
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6 ounces tomato paste
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8 ounces tomato sauce
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28 ounces crushed tomatoes
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46 ounces v 8 vegetable juice
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1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
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1 teaspoon dried onion flakes
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1 teaspoon dried garlic flakes
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3 large green peppers
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1 cup rice, uncooked
Instructions
- Place ground chuck in large mixing bowl. Add next 8 ingredients. With clean, damp hands mix meat mixture together until well combined.
- Rinse green peppers and slice top offs. Cut peppers in half and remove seeds.
- Make meatballs with approximately 2 tablespoons of ground chuck mixture and place in half sections of green peppers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cook on medium low heat for approximately one hour or until meatballs are cooked through.
- Serve with mashed potatoes.