Cheesy, Meaty Pan of Goodness—Our Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipe is Here to Rescue Your Weeknights.
What can we say? Meatballs inspire us. We’re always on the hunt for weeknight-friendly, budget-friendly, quick recipes that everyone will like. And you know what?! That’s actually a pretty tall order. Thankfully, this meatball-ish riff on stuffed peppers without rice checks all of our weeknight dinner boxes! It’s pretty low-carb, but it’s also gloriously cheesy—that means that basically everyone at our table will happily eat it up. Serve it with a big green salad and you’ve got yourself a beautiful, filling, hearty dinner. And for more of our best meatball recipe ideas, check out our favorite meatball recipes or for another stuffed pepper idea, try our Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers.
Everything You’ll Need To Make Our Ground Beef Stuffed Peppers
Everything about this recipe just sort of falls right into place. We’ve basically created a bell pepper-loaded beef meatball and then stuffed it into sweet little bell pepper rings to bake into one complete—and completely cheesy—meal. Using Italian sausage, which is usually seasoned with lots of fresh herbs and spices along with the beef is a sneaky way to incorporate a ton of flavor with one super ingredient. We call for mild Italian sausage to make this recipe as versatile as possible, but if everyone around your dinner table likes a little spice, feel free to use hot Italian sausage.
Bell peppers
Olive oil
Yellow onion
Fresh garlic
Eggs
Worcestershire sauce
Dijon mustard
Garlic powder
Onion powder
90/10 ground beef
Mild Italian sausage
Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
Shredded cheese
How To Make Stuffed Bell Peppers
For this stuffed bell pepper recipe, you’ll use the diced up tops and bottoms of the bell peppers to use in the meaty filling and then you’ll use the remaining bell pepper rings as the vessel for holding the cheese-topped filling. This stuffed pepper recipe might look a little long, but that’s mostly because it takes a lot of words to explain how we’d like you to cut these bell peppers. In practice, though, you’ll find that this is a super simple recipe. Here’s the speedy, Cliff Notes version of how to make these stuffed peppers:
Prep the bell peppers! You’ll make them into eight bell pepper rings, ready to be stuffed!
Make the “meatball”-ish filling! Beef, sausage, spices, and cheese make for a super yummy stuffed pepper filling!
Cook it all together! Stuff the meatball-ish filling into the bell pepper rings and bake!
Top with cheese and bake just a bit more. When the cheese is melty, you’re done!
Tools You’ll Need
Can I Freeze Stuffed Peppers?
Yes you can! These stuffed bell peppers will keep well in the freezer for up to four months. Cook the recipe all the way through. Cool the stuffed peppers and store them in freezer safe containers! If you want them individually frozen for ultra-easy meals, you can freeze them on a baking sheet. Once they’re frozen through, pop them off the sheet and store them in freezer bags. When you’re ready to eat them, thaw the stuffed peppers overnight in the fridge. Then warm them back up in the microwave.
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