Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed Bell Pepper



This blog is mostly dedicated to desserts and sweets but I think its creative to switch things up every once in a while. These are perfect if you are looking for a quick dinner recipe. They may seem small but they sure can fill you up.

Prep Time 20 min
Bake Time 20 min
Serves 6 bell peppers

Ingredients

6 bell peppers
2 cups couscous
1 tomato
1/2 onion
1 zucchini
2 cups chicken
2 cloves of garlic
1 can chickpeas
1/2 cup mozzarella

Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. In medium pan, cook chicken. Cube the cooked chicken. Dice tomato, onion and garlic cloves. Peel and chop the zucchini. Prepare couscous as directed on the box. Drain the chickpeas. Combine all ingredients (excluding the bell peppers) in a bowl. Mix well so every ingredient is evenly dispersed. Cut the top of the bell peppers and remove the seeds.

Fill each bell pepper with the prepared mixture to the very top. Place the bell peppers in a pan with 1" of water on the bottom. Bake for 20 min. Once the bell peppers are finished baking enjoy the delicious combination of all the vegetables and couscous. It is really filling, you only need one.


HISTORY
These peppers represent a person in history. This person ruled during the Enlightenment era. A hint: think of the peppers as two separate pieces (personalities). The inside stuffing and the pepper shell.

If you still can't guess who these peppers emulate, then here is another hint:


Did that help much. Well I think he is a good looking man!

This picture is of King Frederick II of Prussia. Frederick the Great.

The bell peppers represent King Frederick II of Prussia because he had a split personality. He viewed himself as a liberal thinker. He also wrote and composed excellent concertos. As seen in the picture below.
He was personally enlightened. But to the public he ruled in absolutist fashion. He ruled as a powerful absolutist and was a tactical genius in the military.

Just as the bell peppers have two components to them so does Frederick the Great. The bell peppers have a soft core which is delicious. This soft core represents Frederick's personal life. His enlightened life of art and music. While the hard shell of the bell pepper represents Frederick II official life he was cold, rigid and despotic.

Creativity
This recipe is creative because the ingredients were carefully chosen to emulate the characteristics of Frederick II of Prussia. Also, some recipes for stuffed peppers have the peppers boiled prior to filling them. I creatively chose to keep the bell peppers with a hard shell so that they would better represent the hard, rigid leadership of Frederick. I also creatively invented the recipe for the stuffing to make it different than other stuffed pepper recipes. This recipe has couscous, chicken and chikpeas. The different recipe can also be creatively compared to the new thinking of the enlightenment period. Frederick II relished the new intellectual thinking.