What do you stuff your stuffed pepper with?

Question

Dear culinary experts,

I want to make stuff peppers but I don't know what to stuff it with. Please suggest something interesting and fun (ya know, not just chicken or cheese). I am looking for creative combinations.

Answer 1

4 Bell Peppers
1 lb Ground Beef
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup unseasoned dry bread crumbs
1 package Boursin cheese
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 tablespoon fresh Thyme
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400°F. melt butter over medium-high heat and cook onion, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until tender. In medium bowl, pour onion over breadcrumbs. Stir in Boursin, parsley, salt and pepper. Evenly spoon into peppers; arrange on baking sheet. Bake 40 minutes or until Temperature reaches 165 degrees F. Sprinkle with cheese.

You can use chicken, pork, turkey, sausage, whatever...Add rice to the mixture also 1/2 cup uncooked.

Answer 2

Most people stuff bell peppers with a rice mixture, of basically rice and herbs. I don't care for rice much, so I stuff mine with other veges, and different meats.

One Nice Recipe

8 bell peppers, 2 yellow, 2 green, 2 red, 2 orange (or any other color you like, purple), the tops cut off, deseeded, and deveined
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut in chunks
1/2 a medium onion, diced
small penne pasta, or any other small pasta you like, macaroni is great, about a cup
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
2 cloves of garlic, chopped, or minced
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon dried basil
16 thin slices of mozzarella cheese, or any other kind you like, cheddar, gouda, American..
salt and pepper to taste

Cook the chicken in a little olive oil, until it turns white
add your onions, garic, herbs, and spices, saute for about a minute, add your tomato sauce, and cooked pasta.
You may add a 1/4 cup of red wine, if you wish for added flavor.
Stir until thickened, turn off the heat. Let stand 1 minute or 2

Set your bell peppers on a cookie sheet. You may need to slice a tiny sliver of the bottoms so the bell peppers will stand up, making a flat surface.
Lay a slice of the cheese you want to use on the inside bottom of each bell pepper.
Fill each pepper with your stuffing, over-stuffing it is ok, since your stuffing will still be warm.
Bake in a 400 degree oven 15 to 20 minutes.
Add the other 8 layers of cheese to the tops, (if you used 2 or more different cheeses you can mix them up randomly, putting the bottom cheese cheddar, the top mozzarela, etc) and put the tops of the bell peppers over the cheese slices at a slight slant , you can multi-color them if you like, putting the red top over the green pepper, the yellow over the red, etc.
Its ok if the sauce bubbles over, it will look pretty with the gooey melting cheese running over.
If you want to make the bell pepper look like people, for a silly fun dish, you can decorate a side of the pepper by putting in whole cloves for eyes, a mouth and nose at the end of cooking. Optional, of course.
Have fun with this dish! Its wonderful!

Answer 3

Well, I am a vegetarian, but feel free to substitute something if you can't live without meat...

Laurel's Stuffed Peppers:

Boil peppers for approx. 5 minutes to tenderize, cut tops, and scoop out seeds. Set aside.

In skillet, heat olive oil and add crushed garlic cloves and cook until oil is nice and garlic-y... Add 1 chopped onion. When onion is translucent, add 1 can of diced tomatoes, drained, and 1 can of black turtle beans, drained and rinsed. Saute until heated through. Add 1 pkg of any brand cooked Spanish rice. If you like heat, also add chopped jalapenos and or salsa.

You can bake them at this point, either covered in tomato sauce, chili sauce, or taco sauce, then sprinkle with pepperjack cheese. OR, for a make-ahead dinner, put them in the crockpot on low.

I also had an Italian version before I was veggie that had Italian sausage slices, cooked shell pasta and tomatoes, cooked in spaghetti sauce and sprinkled with mozzerella. It was hearty- but I were going to make that, I would add ricotta to the mix to give it more of a lasagna feel...

Good luck!! ♥

Answer 4

4 bell peppers
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 cup of chopped onions
1/2 raw rice
Cut top off pepper clean out seeds and veins, rinse set aside,in a mixing bowl ground beef,onions rice and salt and pepper.Mix well. put ground beef mixture in peppers til full if any ground beef mixture is left make into ball these with be porcine, put in tomato sauce, make sure you have enough sauce to cover the peppers, cook on low heat from about 1 hour or til rice is tender.

Answer 5

I like to brown up ground beef or sausage with finely chopped onions. Then I make regular white rice but instead of using just water I use 1/2 beef or chicken broth and 1/2 water to cook the rice in so it gives it more flavor.
You can add more veggies but I dont like to overstuff them so they are enormous. Then I just layer in all the ingredients. Sometimes I use a spag chunky mixed with a little tomoatoe paste if the person I am making htem for likes a little sauce with it. Then i top with parm cheese and a little breadcrumbs and bake.

Answer 6

Beef, Onion, Rice, Tomato Sauce, Seasonings.

Answer 7

I've always had the ground beef/rice/tomato sauce type, so cheese and chicken sounds interesting to me. I guess you could use any meat you liked shredded or chopped, and some kind of binding agent to keep it together...how about rice, shrimp, onions, okra, chopped sausage--kind of like a jambalaya stuffed pepper...or pepperoni, sauce, cheese, bread crumbs, hamburger, mushrooms--like pizza stuffed peppers

Answer 8

Ground beef, lamb or pork and rice in a tomato sauce flavored with a slight touch of cinnamon, sugar, garlic, onion,and corriander.

Fry the meat, drain it, add it to the seasoned sauce, mix in par-cooked, or instant rice stuff the peppers, cover in foil, add water to the bottom of the pan steam in a 350 degree oven until cooked...

Answer 9

I like to stuff peppers with spainish rice and chicken . 2cups cooked rice, 1 12oz can diced tomatoes with peppers, 1 large green pepper diced, 2 cups cooked chicken cut in small pieces, Mix together and fill green, red, or yellow peppers Usually fills 6 to 8 of them. Oh i forgot season taste . bake them standing up for 45 minutes at 350/ or you can put in casserole dish and cover with tomato (spaghetti) sauce.

Answer 10

My Mom stuffs them with chopmeat mixture. I think close to a meatloaf mixture. Stuff the Peppers with meat mixture and Bakes them in Tomatoe sauce.