How to Pre-Cook Peppers

Do you do it? Do you pre-boil your peppers before stuffing them? If not, we bet you will next time!

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Pre-cooking is the idea of quick-starting the cooking process of your stuffed pepper. Since stuffed peppers can take as long as 45 minutes to bake, shortening that down with a quick boil really helps me out.

INGREDIENTS/ TOOLS NEEDED:

1

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2

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3

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4

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