Simple stuffed peppers are a weeknight traditional! Full of floor beef, corn, rice and beans, seasoned with tomato sauce and traditional spices, after which topped with cheese.
Our Go To Simple Stuffed Peppers
Why you’ll love ’em!
Extra greens: We love that bell peppers are a vegetable. Even in case you stuff them with all meat or all grains, you continue to get a stable serving of veggies!
Simple leftovers: Stuffed peppers are scrumptious when reheated, and you’ll pack them up and take them to highschool or work for lunch.
Nice for freezing: Make a double batch and freeze your stuffed peppers for a fast dinner once you don’t have something to eat.
Substances for Stuffed Peppers
The substances for these straightforward stuffed peppers are — you guessed it, EASY! We’re providing a couple of straightforward substitutions as nicely in case you don’t have one thing readily available.
- 6 giant bell peppers: any coloration will work — we love utilizing a couple of completely different colours for selection!
- Raw long-grain white rice: you’ll cook dinner the rice whereas the empty bell peppers are cooking. Any number of rice or quinoa will work.
- Floor beef: we love the flavour of floor beef, however floor turkey, hen or a plant-based floor will even do.
- Corn: we choose recent corn lower off the cob, however frozen corn will work.
- White onion: we love the flavour of white onion, however yellow onion or pink onion will even work.
- Canned pinto beans: black beans, garbanzo beans or cannellini beans will even work in case you don’t have pinto beans readily available.
- Tomato sauce
- Seasonings: paprika, dried oregano, floor cumin, salt and pepper
- Shredded Monterey jack cheese: Any Mexican mix of shredded cheese will even yield an identical style! You’ll high your stuffed peppers with this cheese 😀
Learn how to Make Stuffed Peppers
For the complete recipe, scroll right down to the recipe card for a listing of substances and directions.
Partially Cook dinner Bell Peppers
Preheat the oven to 350ºF and place the bell peppers into any appropriate baking dish the place the bell peppers will keep standing straight up. Drizzle with oil, and season with salt. Bake the peppers for 10-Quarter-hour till they start to melt however not flip mushy.
We like our peppers nonetheless somewhat crunchy, however in case you’re hoping for them to be extra mushy, bake them for 20 minutes as an alternative of 10-15.
Put together Rice
Subsequent, rinse rice with chilly water after which add it to a small saucepan. Add 1 cup of water to the rice and convey to a boil over excessive warmth. Flip warmth to low and canopy. Enable the rice to cook dinner for 20-25 minutes or till the rice is completed.
Cook dinner Floor Beef
Warmth a big forged iron skillet over medium/excessive warmth and add beef to the skillet. Break the meat up into small items, and cook dinner till it’s virtually absolutely cooked however nonetheless has some pink items. Take away the meat from the skillet with a slotted spoon and depart drippings within the skillet.
Saute Onions, Corn & Beans
Add the remaining avocado oil to the skillet after which add the onion to the skillet. Sauté for 1 minute after which add the corn. Sauté the corn till it browns and caramelizes, then add the beans to the corn and toss.
Combine Stuffed Pepper Filling
Subsequent, add the tomato sauce, paprika, black pepper, oregano, and cumin to the corn. Combine the substances collectively after which add the bottom beef and rice to the skillet. Combine once more till all of the substances are mixed.
Assemble Stuffed Peppers
Scoop about ½ – ¾ cup of the combination into every hollowed out bell peppers. High every pepper with shredded cheese.
Bake Stuffed Peppers
Place the bell peppers again into the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or till the cheese is melted and begins to brown.
Get pleasure from!
Take away the peppers from the oven and garnish with recent herbs. Get pleasure from!
Stuffed Peppers FAQs
We advocate partially cooking the bell peppers earlier than stuffing them and ending of baking them. This may yield nice texture peppers that also preserve their form however aren’t mushy.
We soften the bell peppers for this recipe for 10-Quarter-hour earlier than stuffing and ending within the oven. In the event you like your peppers extra on the mushy aspect, we advocate softening for 20 minutes earlier than stuffing.
These stuffed peppers make for an incredible freezer meal! Cook dinner them because the recipe states, after which allow them to cool utterly earlier than storing in an hermetic container. Reheat within the oven at 350ºF in a coated casserole dish for 20-Half-hour.
What to Serve with Stuffed Peppers
Storage
Retailer these stuffed peppers within the fridge for as much as 5 days in an hermetic container.
Freezer Directions
These stuffed peppers make for an incredible freezer meal! We advocate baking these peppers and following the directions within the recipe card. Then, let the stuffed peppers cool utterly earlier than putting in an hermetic container and storing within the freezer for as much as 3 months.
To reheat the peppers: preheat the oven to 350ºF after which place the peppers in a casserole dish and bake coated for 20-Half-hour.
Images: pictures taken on this publish are by Ashley McGlaughlin from The Edible Perspective.
