Some Fun Veggie Recipes

Here are two recipes for dinner that use mostly vegetables that the kids will love!

Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients
- 4 bell peppers**
-2 cups of brown rice**
- cheese **
- 2 cups of black beans **
- salsa if you want

 Directions
1. Heat oven to 350 F.
2. Cook rice according to packaging.
3.  Heat black beans in sauce pan.
4.  Cut the middle of the green pepper out and the top off.
5. Stuff pepper with rice, beans, cheese and salsa if you want.
6.  Put the peppers in a baking pan standing tall with the open side up and cover with tin foil.
7.  Bake for ten minutes with tin foil and another five minutes uncovered.

This is an easy recipe to do with leftover beans and rice! You can put almost anything you want in the peppers if you want to add tomatoes or corn.  Kids will think it looks pretty and they can help stuff the peppers.


Vegetable Quesadilla

Ingredients
- whole wheat tortillas **
- cheese**
- any vegetables - corn, peppers, tomatoes **
- beans if you want **

Directions
1. Cut up the vegetables into bite size pieces. 
2.  Then saute the vegetables in a small amount of oil in the pan until they are soft.
3. Once the veggies are done put one tortilla on pan with cheese and veggies on one side.
4. Fold over the other side and let it cook for a few minutes.
5.  Once you think the cheese has melted and it cooked flip it ( this can be kind of tricky so it might take some practice).
6.  Cook until both sides are browned and the cheese looks melted.

This is a super easy dinner that most kids will love!  Those are two dinner ideas that use almost all WIC items and have tons of veggies in them.


** means WIC approved item