{"id":7165,"date":"2018-01-10T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/uncategorized\/copy-of-shakshuka\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:02:13","slug":"stuffed-bell-peppers-with-mung-beans-and-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/recipe\/stuffed-bell-peppers-with-mung-beans-and-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed Bell Peppers with Mung Beans and Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/fall-2017\/the-sweet-side-of-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/STUFFED-BELL-PEPPERS-WITH-MUNG-BEANS-AND-VEGGIES-576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7168 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/STUFFED-BELL-PEPPERS-WITH-MUNG-BEANS-AND-VEGGIES-576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/STUFFED-BELL-PEPPERS-WITH-MUNG-BEANS-AND-VEGGIES-576.jpg 576w, https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/STUFFED-BELL-PEPPERS-WITH-MUNG-BEANS-AND-VEGGIES-576-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"recipe-card\"><\/p>\n<h3>Stuffed Bell Peppers with Mung Beans and Veggies<\/h3>\n<p class=\"servings\">Makes 2 servings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00bd cup mung beans, sorted<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup cubed sweet potato\/li&gt;<\/li>\n<li>3 \u00bd tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves garlic, minced, divided\/li&gt;<\/li>\n<li>2 red bell peppers, halved, stemmed, and seeded<\/li>\n<li>Pinch of sea salt\/li&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Pinch of pepper<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup white button mushrooms, sliced<\/li>\n<li>2 cups Lacinato kale, washed, deveined, and chopped<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon lemon juice\/li&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pour 1 \u00bd cups of water into a medium saucepan and add the mung beans. Bring the water to a boil and then let it simmer, uncovered, for 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>While the water is simmering, preheat the oven to 400\u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p>Toss the sweet potato with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and half of the minced garlic in a large bowl. Season with salt and black pepper, and arrange the sweet potato on a baking sheet. Roast for about 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Lightly brush the peppers with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, and sprinkle them with salt and pepper. Place the peppers, cut-side down, on another baking sheet. Bake the peppers until they are just tender, around 15 minutes. Let them cool slightly, then turn them cut side up.<\/p>\n<p>Add \u00bd tablespoon of olive oil to a nonstick skillet and saute the mushrooms over medium heat for 1 minute. Massage the kale with the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil and lemon juice and add it to the mushrooms in the skillet. Cover the skillet and let the kale steam for about 1 minute. Remove the mushrooms and kale from the skillet and toss them in a bowl with the mung beans and the sweet potato. Spoon some of the mixture into each of the red pepper halves.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p class=\"author-credit\">Photos and recipes used with permission from <em>SugarDetoxMe, <\/em>by Summer Rayne Oakes \u00a9 2017, published by Sterling Epicure<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/fall-2017\/the-sweet-side-of-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2017-recipe","category-recipe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16831,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/16831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}