Carrot Ginger Quinoa Pepper Jacks – delightfully ghoulish Pepper Jacks – jack o lanterns carved from peppers. kids of ALL AGES will love these!
Carrot Ginger Quinoa Pepper Jacks
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This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween!
That song will be in my head all day now…
You know we love our stuffed peppers, right?
Today I have another stuffed pepper, and another play on words. These jack o lantern peppers are fun (I make them every year), but the new filling is what I’m excited about!
Doesn’t that one look like a skeleton?
So. This filling. I started by juicing carrots and ginger.
Then. I cooked the quinoa with the carrot ginger juice.
I know, I know. I made that face too.
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Carrot Ginger Quinoa Pepper Jacks
makes two stuffed peppers
dairy, egg, soy, oil, and gluten free, vegan
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup dry quinoa (black for Halloween theme)
1 cup fresh carrot ginger juice
1 cup cooked black beans
2 orange bell peppers
pinch sea salt
INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 °F.
*Juice 5 carrots and 1 inch piece ginger.
Combine quinoa and juice, bring to boil. Reduce to simmer, cover and cook for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, carve your peppers.
Combine cooked quinoa with black beans, salt to taste, fill peppers.
Bake at 350 °F for 30 minutes. Serve over spinach salad.
*No juicer? Buy a bottle of carrot ginger juice – generally found in the chilled beverage section.
I want to cook all quinoa in juice from now on – it really adds vibrant flavor! These had a warm sweetness from the ginger and carrot, which balanced the pepper flavor well. It’s just an added bonus that they are whimsical and get me singing songs from a Tim Burton movie.
Do you carve pumpkins for Halloween? If not, perhaps a pepper?
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printable Carrot Ginger Quinoa Pepper Jacks recipe:
- ½ cup dry quinoa (black for Halloween theme)
- 1 cup fresh carrot ginger juice
- 1 cup cooked black beans
- 2 orange bell peppers
- sea salt
- *Juice 5 carrots and 1 inch piece ginger.
- Combine quinoa and juice, bring to boil. Reduce to simmer, cover and cook for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, carve your peppers. Combine cooked quinoa with black beans, salt to taste, fill peppers.
- Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Serve over spinach salad.
- *No juicer? Buy a bottle of carrot ginger juice - generally found in the chilled beverage section.
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Fit Chick in the City says
These are the cutest thing ever. I usually shy away from stuffed pepper recipes, but this one looks so easy!
spabettie says
thank you, Jess! and yes, you should try them – they’re really too easy… 😀
Fit Chick in the City says
btw, I tried them and loved them!
Dorry says
STOP IT! These look so amazing. I bet they’d be incredible with lentils, too – I’ve been on a lentil kick…
I’m making these when we have friends over for dinner – too freaking cute. And tasty. And you know I’ll add avocado to mine. 🙂
spabettie says
yep, lentils will be good, avocado OF COURSE will be good… 😀 take photos when you make them, I want to see!
Suzan says
I just made this the other night for our Bunko group. They were completely surprised when I told them how good it was for you. Not to mention how delicious it was!! 😀 The one question I have for you is: In your photos, yours looks thick like cookie dough, while mine was not thick at all, but more like a salad dressing. The taste was out of this world, but did I leave something out or miss a step to make mine more thin in consistancy? Either way, I’ll be making it again, just wanted to know.:) Thanks..
Kristina Sloggett says
hi Suzan! so happy you made these and enjoyed them. just so I am understanding, your quinoa cooked in the juice never set up? cooking in liquid for 20 minutes, the quinoa should have absorbed all of the liquid, did it not? I honestly am not sure why yours would have the consistency of a salad dressing – I cook quinoa all the time and this has never happened. If you make it again, cook the quinoa until it has absorbed all of the liquid (just using 1 cup liquid to 1/2 cup quinoa). hope that helps?
Kris @Krazy_Kris says
just when I think you’ve done it all…
you come up with THIS!
LURVE LURVE LURVE!!!!
spabettie says
ha – thank you, dear. you are the sweetest in all that you do for me!
Pure2raw twins says
girl these are too cute! you are so creative, not sure if I could ever do something like this, I would totally mess it up
spabettie says
thank you!! 🙂 they’re fun… and you could totally do it – they’re much easier to carve. 😀
Sarena (The Non-Dairy Queen) says
Lady, these are crazy cute! Love them! We make a huge event out of carving pumpkins. We go to the farm, get them and then come back and carve the rest of the day! It’s one of my favorite things to do with the boys!
I braised carrots, onion and garlic in carrot juice this weekend and it was sooo good! What an amazing sauce it makes.
spabettie says
braising carrots in juice – oh, MY that sounds good – we were in sync this weekend! 🙂 I want to come over to YOUR house for pumpkin day!! 😀
Liz (Little Bitty Bakes) says
Ahhh, these are SO cute!! What a neat idea, seriously – who ever would have thought to do that?! And I love that you cooked the quinoa in the ginger carrot juice, I’m sure it gave it great flavor!
spabettie says
you should try this, Liz – quinoa, rice, whatever – the flavor is amazing! 🙂 (and thank you!) XO
Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga says
TOO CUTE!!
And your knife-carving skills are pretty stellar to carve out those faces!
spabettie says
thanks, Averie!! 🙂 smaller surface, to be sure, but it’s really pretty easy to do…
Lisa says
Awesome! I love these! I haven’t carved a pumpkin in the last couple years…but I could definitely handle the pepper idea!
spabettie says
the peppers are SO much easier, and… you get to eat them after! 😀
Ashlae says
These are SO adorable. I cannot wait to try them for our halloween dinner party at the end of the month. Genius!
spabettie says
I hope you do, Ashlae! they are definitely hit!
[email protected] says
So freaking cute! You could fill those peppers with anything looking that adorable and I would eat them 🙂
spabettie says
hee – thanks, Jen! and yes, they’d be fun with just about any filling… but THIS – MMM! 😀