Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef

Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef. Crumble ground beef into the mixture and stir until ground beef is thoroughly combined with sauce and rice mixture. Sprinkle insides of the peppers lightly with salt. Add drained tomatoes, salt, Worcestershire, and a dash of pepper.

Green peppers are stuffed with the ground beef blend, tomato sauce, rice and seasonings. Pour the remaining tomato mixture over the stuffed peppers. Place the peppers cut-side up in a baking dish just large enough to hold them upright. You can have Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef

1. Prepare 4 of Red/yellow bell pepper.
2. You need 1 lb of ground beef.
3. You need 1 medium of white onion.
4. It's 3/4 cup of fresh cherry tomatos.
5. Prepare 3/4 cup of Jasmine white rice.
6. It's 1 clove of garlic.
7. Prepare 1 of Salt and pepper.
8. You need 1 of paprika.
9. Prepare 1 of garlic powder.
10. Prepare 2 cup of water (for cooking rice).
11. You need 1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
12. Prepare 1 of bread crumbs.

Add the beef, season with salt. Cut thin slice from stem end of each bell pepper to remove top of pepper. Remove seeds and membranes; rinse peppers. If necessary, cut thin slice from bottom of each pepper so they stand up straight.

Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef step by step

1. Add rice into pot with water, wait for pot to boil and turn to low heat for about 15 minutes.
2. Cook ground beef in frying pan, once fully browned drain excess oil.
3. Cut bell peppers in half (and clear out seeds and the middles) and put on plate for later, save the tops!.
4. Chop onion, tomatos, garlic.
5. Chop the excess pepper off the tops and add it in with other vegetables.
6. Add all vegetables into frying pan with beef.
7. Add a splash of water into pan to keep things moist, simmer for 10 minutes.
8. Season with garlic powder, salt pepper, and paprika (season well, don't be stingy!).
9. Add Cooked rice in pan and stir until everything is mixed in well.
10. Spoon mixture into the peppers.
11. Sprinkle bread crumbs and cheese on top.
12. Arrange peppers in pan and bake in oven at 350 for about an hour.

Spoon an equal amount of the mixture into each hollowed pepper. Mix the remaining tomato sauce and Italian seasoning in a bowl, and pour over the stuffed peppers. Green peppers are stuffed with a mixture of ground beef and rice then smothered in a tangy tomato sauce. I always serve these with creamy mashed potatoes just like my Mom always did. Classic stuffed peppers with rice, ground beef, and a healthy rainbow of sweet red, yellow and orange bell peppers makes the best easy dinner idea any night of the week.