The Easiest Stuffed Pepper Recipe Ever
Most of the stuffed pepper recipes I come across follow a similar format. Cook some rice, then brown some meat, then mix those together with spices, stuff the pepper, then cook the stuffed peppers. I prefer using a streamlined method where the only cooking that takes place happens inside the pepper. 10 minutes of up-front effort, followed by a lot of passive oven time.
With all those extra steps out of the way, these stuffed peppers are great to make any night of the week. Plus, you can eat them hot or cold, making them great for packed lunches. This recipe scales up really easily too, so it’s a great option if you’re having people over for dinner.
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22 Comments
I've made this before the only difference I'd cook them in a chicken stock/passata sauce rather than water. It's a crowd pleaser this one.
Thinking that mixture might also work pretty well in a squash!
I agree regular stuffed ones are labor intensive.😢
Stuffed peppers take me back since my dad used to make them often. Love this version!
Hi! Lemme know if you find an easier stuffed pepper recipe out there. I don't think it exists!
New subscriber from NJ! 😎 A great recipe…thanks for posting!🫑Do you also have a recipe for stuffed tomatoes? 🍅🍅🍅😎✌🏻🍀☘️
only thing I'd do differently is add a small hunk of gruyere to the little dimples in the feet of the peppers and finely grated parm over the tomato sauce before serving and a bit of craggy, crusty, freshly baked croutons all around ….oh mahhhhh gahhhhhhh, sending myself into foodgasm overload XD Awesome video!
Such a beautiful way to cook that rice in those peppers, wow.. delish! 😀
Awesome video. I use the instant pot and it's even easier and faster.
Good job. You’re very attractive and you have a nice voice
Ooohhh these look great!! Wonderful, new method that can be adapted so easily. I'm imagining adding a mix of sausages like chorizo along with the pork, could change up the seasonings and amplify the spices. This is definitely a game changer!!!! Thanks so much for sharing ❤️
The way we prepare them is difficult, but I prefer it that way, as I do not like soggy stuffed peppers.
We use Shepard Peppers only, first we grill the peppers, then de-skin them. Then we prepare the rice, and mix in the meat, spices – we stuff the peppers, add some water and then bake them in the oven. We bake them with the lid on so the they steam and near the end we remove the lid. Typically we do not add tomato sauce, but you could.
Can you stack them on top of each other in the pot or do they need contact with the liquid?
Yum, headed to the market for the ground pork! Mouthwatering meal………….
I love how easy and customizable these are! Is it possible to skip the water in the dutch oven step (since I would prefer a less mushy result)? I'm not sure I understand what the point of that step is
This recipe looks delicious.
Is there a way I can still make these if I don’t have a ducth oven? Thanks for the recipe!
You've been gone too long *shivers from the withdrawals* LOL!
This was one of the first dishes I learned how to cook from scratch as an adult ^~^ Before then, I cooked by using boxed things and condensed soups and such. I was sort of pushed into learning how to cook from scratch, because I went through a period where I became extremely poor. It was cheaper to buy flour to make pasta, rather than boxes of dried pasta. Fast forward to the future and now my best friend jokes around and says that if it comes in a box, I consider it cheating LOL! The truth is that I just enjoy cooking. Back when I lived off $40/month, because everything else went to bills, it was something fun to do and I would just read recipes from old cookbooks I had and trying new things out. I didn't have a ton of money to go out and party all the time like my friends LOL! –But yeah, so I really like this video. Stuffed peppers were my gateway drug into the world of cooking hahaha!
I love stuffed peppers! You can make a sauce by mixing 400 ml. yogurt with 1 egg and little bit of salt in the remaining cooking water and mix them 2-3 minutes before the cooking is finished. The residual heat will cook the sauce.
In greece we have that, like every week it's a very common food, usually without meat.
In our family it's such a common food that we have emptied-out green bell peppers in bags in the freezer and we stuff them while frozen. That way it takes like, 5 minutes to prepare.
We put the rice uncooked, with a lot of grated onion, yoghurt, parsley, oregano, tomato in any form, pepper and maybe pine seeds. We bake them in the oven covered for the first 30m or so, well seasoned and with lot's of thick tomato paste. Everyone here has their own taste in stuffed peppers but its a widely loved- sundayish meal here. Or at least was untill I grew up, not sure.
You are so beautiful.