Stuffed Peppers With Ground Turkey or Beef
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This stuffed peppers with ground turkey recipe is a quick and easy gluten-free weeknight supper option that tastes absolutely delicious!
This is my mother’s recipe for stuffed peppers with ground turkey or beef and boy are they good. A meal in and of itself, stuffed peppers are classic comfort food, no matter which way you look at it. This stuffed peppers recipe is so simple and uses mostly pantry staples. Plus, it’s gluten-free!
To make life even easier, you can make these ahead of time right up to the point of putting them in the oven. Simply cover the turkey stuffed peppers with foil or cling wrap and refrigerate until you’re ready to bake them. This would be a great meal to prep on Sunday for a busy night later in the week. Quick, easy, delicious – what more could you want, right?
Recipe Ingredients
- Tomato soup
- Cheese
- Chili powder
- Chopped garlic
- Cooked rice
- Onion
- Ground turkey or ground beef
- Peppers
- Salt and black pepper
Begin by filling a pot deep enough to submerge the peppers in with water and add a teaspoon of salt. Put this over medium-high heat and bring it to a boil while you prepare the filling.
Peel and chop your onion.
Place your onions and garlic in a skillet. Cook over medium heat until onion is lightly browned.
Normally you would add your ground meat along with this and cook until browned, but I usually pre-brown my ground beef and freeze it so it is already cooked.
When those get cooked a bit, move on to the next step.
Add in tomato soup.
Did y’all see that post I did on Simple And Delicious Tomato Soup?
Add in cooked ground turkey or beef…
Stir in all of your seasonings and your cooked rice.
Stir it up a bit. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for about ten minutes.
Meanwhile, rinse your bell peppers under water and cut the tops off.
Use a spoon to scoop out the seeds.
Drop them in the boiling water and boil them for about five minutes.
Carefully remove with tongs.
Stir cheese into the ground turkey or beef and rice mixture.
Spray an 8×8 baking dish with cooking spray.
Place peppers inside and stuff with beef or turkey mixture.
Top with additional shredded cheese and place in a 350-degree oven for ten minutes.
When I make stuffed peppers, that’s supper! Nothing else needed.
ENJOY!
Recipe Notes
- You can easily swap the rice for quinoa in this stuffed pepper recipe for something different. For a lower-carb option, try frozen cauliflower rice.
- To make this recipe even lighter, use less cheese or replace it with reduced-fat cheddar cheese.
- If you’re making this recipe around the holidays, you can also swap the lean ground turkey for leftover roast turkey.
- If you want to just prepare the filling in advance, you can store it in an airtight container in the fridge for two days or in the freezer for up to three months.
Storage
You can store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to four days.
Recipe FAQs
What do you serve with stuffed peppers?
While they’re great on their own, I also think they taste great when served with salad. For some tasty salad options, check out this tomato, onion, and cucumber salad, summer corn salad, or my favorite Greek salad.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground turkey or beef
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 tsp chopped garlic
- 2 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 can tomato soup
- 1 cup cheddar cheese plus more to sprinkle on top
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 4 medium-sized bell peppers
Instructions
- Fill a large pot with water. Add a teaspoon of salt and set over medium high heat to bring to a boil.
- Chop onion. In a large skillet, brown hamburger meat, chopped onion, and garlic until hamburger meat is browned. Drain off grease. Add spices, soup, and rice to the beef mixture. Stir well. Simmer for ten minutes.
- While that is simmering, wash peppers and remove tops. Scoop out seeds with a spoon. Drop bell peppers into boiling water and boil for five minutes. Carefully remove with tongs.
- Spray 8x8 pan with nonstick cooking spray. Place peppers upright inside. Add one cup cheese to beef and rice mixture and stir until melted. Spoon into peppers. Top with additional cheese.
- Bake at 350 for ten minutes.
Nutrition
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I make stuffed peppers, but I just don’t care for green peppers. So I use red, yellow or orange peppers. I don’t parboil the peppers, but cut them down the center and lay them on their sides. They bake up nice and sweet, soft, but with a little crunchy top. Yum!
So happy to find this recipe. I will try the microwave for preparing the peppers. Hope they turn out okay.
I have made stuffed bell peppers many times before with other recipes, but this recipe is the BEST one I have ever made! I think the garlic, chili powder, and cheese really gave it an exceptional flavor. I used brown rice and sharp cheddar cheese in mine. Served with moist cornbread and sweet iced tea, these peppers made for an amazing supper for my family tonight!
Mama is going to love hearing this Mary!!
I made this for our Valentine’s supper last night. It is easy and very good. Stuffed Bell Peppers is such a pretty, colorful dish to me. I will make these on s regular basis. Thank you so much!
I am so glad you liked them and I hope you had a very Happy Valentines Day!!
Love these, now I have to go buy peppers, the deli in the Safeway has these at about 5bucks per half a pepper, I am sure the will be much less expensive to make at home.
Oh my goodness, that is expensive! Yes, you will do much better to make them at home. I hope yoy love them as much as I do!!
Christy, these are delicious! I agree with your mother, they don’t taste like chili, just well seasoned. I have several variations I make. Both are from my grandmother’s. This is like the perfect combination of both of those recipes. Thanks for the great recipe.
What a combination Jayson!!! So glad you liked it!
We really enjoyed this recipe. I used red peppers instead of green ones and it was delicious! Will be making this again when peppers are on sale.
So glad to hear that you liked it Loretta!!