Tofu Chili Stuffed Peppers

At the beginning of this summer I brought a little green house and my dad brought me a few plants to grow. I have spring onions, lettuce, tomatoes and peppers... Basically I can make a mean home grown salad.

Ever since I saw a tiny green pepper sprouting out of my plant pot, I had this recipe in mind. But it's now been about 4 months and I'm too impatient to wait for it to grow. So this week I brought a regular sized pepper and stuffed it with chili tofu. This is the first time I've had chili made with tofu, I usually go with beans or vegetables, but as I love both chili and tofu so much I couldn't really see how it could go wrong! If you really dislike tofu then you could always try stuffing it with this chili instead.

This is my one and only pepper I'm growing, you may wonder why he's not in his green house... Well it blew away, leaving me with a GYO disaster!

For 4 you'll need:
400g drained tofu
1 onion chopped
1 tbsp chili powder
1/2 tbsp cayenne powder
1/2 tbsp paprika
2 tins chopped tomatoes
1 tin kidney beans drained
4 green peppers

1. Soften the onion in a small amount of oil in a heavy based pan.
2. Crumble the tofu in to the pan, then season with the chili power, cayenne pepper and paprika.
3. Fry the spiced tofu mixture for around 5 minutes on a medium heat to remove any excess moisture then add the chopped tomatoes and kidney beans.
4. Simmer for around 20 minutes until the sauce has thickened.
5. Then cut an oval shaped hole in the pepper, remove all the seeds and strange white bits and fill with the chili. 
6. Pop into a preheated oven for 20 minutes, until slightly browned on the outside.
7. Serve with some boiled brown rice and enjoy!

I'm not sure if my pepper will ever get to a normal size, if not I'll have to find another use for it! But it's a shame because the green pepper is so nice filled with chili, and I'm sure it would taste about 100 times better if I grew it myself! 

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