This Stuffed Green Peppers recipe makes the perfect comfort food weeknight dinner. With its spicy southwest flavors, it’s a great Cinco de Mayo recipe, too!
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Santa Fe Stuffed Green Peppers
This Stuffed Green Peppers recipe comes together super quickly and they’re a nice change to add to your menu all year long.
For me I create my meals for the season that we are in. So during the summer months you won’t find my making soups, lasagna or spaghetti type dishes. Instead you will find me out at the grill making Brats with Onions and Green peppers laced with beer…yeah I said that!
Another summer favorite is grilled chicken amongst a HUGE bed of greens and the freshest veggies that I can find at the local farmers market. I’ll also grill up some corn on the cob more times than I can count as well as Basil Infused New Potatoes…the list goes on and on.
When summer time comes around, I’ll be sure to share those Heavenly Recipes with you.
In the meantime, let’s get to these stuffed green peppers.
So the stuffed green peppers recipe came from a friend of mine. We use to cook quite a bit together when we bought our first home and only had one child. At the time I was teaching myself how to cook. Frankly I never held fresh garlic, yet alone know what to use it with.
I was a young woman trying to learn the basics and I’m so glad I taught myself. Because frankly I’ve learned A LOT. It was during these trial and error times that I found a passion for cooking. I felt pride at something that I could create without putting my nose in a recipe book.
I’m not one for following direction anyway!
So it was with trial and error that these stuffed green peppers were born. They are my spin on green peppers with a southwest kinda twist. I will tell you that the rice mixture that you’ll create is also pretty damn good all by itself. So if you have a pepper allergy {yes, it exists as I recently found out!} or you just don’t like them by all means don’t use them!
What can you stuff peppers with?
If you would like to substitute some of the ingredients, there are a lot of other options for stuffed green pepper fillings. Ground chicken, cubes of cooked turkey, mushrooms, and there are even egg stuffed bell peppers.
Here are the ingredients I used for the Santa Fe Stuffed Green Peppers:
Ingredients
- 1 lb hamburger
- 15 oz. tomato sauce
- ½ onion, diced
- 1 bag frozen corn
- 1 15 oz. diced tomatoes
- 1 7 oz. can black beans
- 2 tbsp basil
- 1 tbsp cilantro
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ ground cumin*
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper*
- 1 ½ tsp black pepper
- salt (to taste)
- 2 c cooked rice
- 6-8 Medium/Large Green Peppers
- Cheese (Mozzarella, Colby, Pepper Jack, whatever you have on hand)
*Omit if you or your family don’t like heat.
Stuffed Green Peppers Recipe Video
Watch this quick video to see how I make the best homemade stuffed peppers!
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Stuffed Green Peppers Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb hamburger
- 15 oz. tomato sauce
- ½ onion diced
- 1 bag frozen corn
- 1 15 oz. diced tomatoes
- 1 7 oz. can black beans
- 2 tbsp basil
- 1 tbsp cilantro
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ ground cumin*
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper*
- 1 ½ tsp black pepper
- salt to taste
- 2 c cooked rice
- 6-8 Medium/Large Green Peppers
- Cheese Mozzarella, Colby, Pepper Jack, whatever you have on hand
- *Omit if you or your family don’t like heat.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In a large skillet brown and onions your meat. I used a 90/10 mix so there’s no fat to drain off. If you have some, drain it.
- Add in tomatoes and corn. Cook until warm, 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in tomato sauce, black beans, basil, cilantro, sugar, cumin and cayenne pepper.
- Taste your mixture and adjust seasonings according to your families taste buds.
- Stir in the cooked rice until all the ingredients are incorporated.
- Cut the top of the green pepper straight across.
- Remove the seeds.
- Using a large spoon place 3-4 spoonfuls of the mixture into the pepper.
- Place your cheese on top of the pepper and place in the oven.
- Cook for about 20-30 minutes. You want the cheese to be bubbly and a nice golden brown and the pepper to be soft. The skin will begin to peel from the pepper.
- Serve with a salad and fruit for a complete meal your family will enjoy.
Nutrition
These Stuffed Green Peppers make a great dish for dinner parties. You can make them ahead of time, place in the fridge until your guests arrive. Stick them in the oven and the mess will already be cleaned up! Plus, they are super inexpensive to make and are so pretty, aren’t they pretty?
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