Easy Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipe Perfect for a Weeknight Meal

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If you’re looking for an easy and palate pleasing Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipe that’s perfect for a weeknight meal, I have the one for you. I grew up eating my mom’s stuffed bell peppers. It’s comfort food, but it’s also healthy. Win-win. When my kids walked in the door last night, the air was filled with the amazing aroma this recipe gives off. I know I’ve made an award-winning (meaning kid pleasing) recipe when they say two things: what’s for dinner it smells amazing and that was really good mom.

This easy stuffed bell peppers recipe is perfect for a weeknight meal. You won't believe how great it makes your house smell! Plus it's kid pleasing. This takes 50 minutes to prepare from chopping the veggies, to pulling it out of the oven. To make it a little faster, prepare your veggies before you leave for work in the morning. I used ground beef, but you could easily swap out turkey or make it vegetarian with quinoa.

The hardest part of this recipe (and it’s not hard at all) is getting the bell peppers ready to be stuffed. You just chop off the top and take out the seeded core. After that, the most time consuming part is chopping the veggies. Unless you have a food processor. An item that’s on my kitchen wishlist.

Here’s the order I recommend doing this recipe in:

  • Chop all of your vegetables that go in the meat filling
  • Get the whole peppers ready
  • Bake the whole peppers
  • While the whole peppers are baking, cook your filling
  • Fill the whole peppers and bake again

If you have a plan and an order to do things in, your time in the kitchen will be less. I love being in the kitchen, but I do not under any circumstance want to be in there longer than necessary. Who’s got time for that yo? (My kids love it when I say ‘yo’.)

Easy Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipe

This easy stuffed bell peppers recipe is perfect for a weeknight meal. You won't believe how great it makes your house smell! Plus it's kid pleasing. This takes 50 minutes to prepare from chopping the veggies, to pulling it out of the oven. To make it a little faster, prepare your veggies before you leave for work in the morning. I used ground beef, but you could easily swap out turkey or make it vegetarian with quinoa.

Side note: I stated that this recipe feeds 5 because that’s how many are in my family. And, we each only had one stuffed pepper because we had sides with it as well. One stuffed pepper, plus a side like rice and fresh fruit, fills us up.Just note that this recipe is for 5 people to each have one pepper.


Is this easy stuffed bell pepper recipe something you think your family will enjoy? My 11 year old wasn’t quite sure if he would like it, but as soon as he took a bite he couldn’t believe how good it was. This is a great way to serve your kids a good amount of vegetables.

This easy stuffed bell peppers recipe is perfect for a weeknight meal. You won't believe how great it makes your house smell! Plus it's kid pleasing. This takes 50 minutes to prepare from chopping the veggies, to pulling it out of the oven. To make it a little faster, prepare your veggies before you leave for work in the morning. I used ground beef, but you could easily swap out turkey or make it vegetarian with quinoa.

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10 COMMENTS

  2. This was delish!!! the only thing I did differently is halved the cumin and chili pepper cuz I don’t like spicy at all.. But this smelled great cooking.. I loved the spinach in it.. and it tasted Great! I served it with some brown rice and hubby couldn’t stop eating it! Thank you!

    • I am so glad it turned out good for you! My sons are now vegetarians, so I’m going to have to come up with an alternative recipe. I’ve seen it with quinoa before, but that’s not their favorite.

  3. Very good. I used green peppers from my garden along with zucchini and onion. I should have cooked them longer though.

  4. Found this and decided to cook it because it is one of the few stuffed peppers that does not use rice. I used 80/20 ground beef as that was what I had, however next time I would use either a 90/10 ground beef or cook and drain before mixing it all together. Flavors were great, just didn’t like the ‘grease’

    • Hi Velita! Glad the flavors were great! I usually use 80/20 as well and sometimes drain if the grease is too much. I’ll have to try 90/10 also and see how it turns out. Thanks for stopping by!

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