Peppers – Perfect For Stuffing!
Peppers surely were made for stuffing! You can stuff peppers with a variety of mixtures. Feel free to change the ingredients in this recipe with may be carrots, olives, sun dried tomatoes – anything that will go with a savoury mince type recipe
Stuffed Pepper Recipe
When stuffed peppers have been cooked in the oven, the flesh of the pepper goes sweet and soft and is absolutely delicious! And there are different colours to choose from! The red pepper is sweeter than the green pepper, and the yellow pepper is somewhere in-between. So choose which you like or try them all.
Stuffed Peppers with Mince, makes an easy, tasty and economical midweek supper
Buying Peppers
Peppers are available in the supermarket all year round but are in season in the summer and autumn months.They are now grown in the UK in glasshouses from March to November.
If you can get some local organic peppers, do try them, as they are often the best for flavour.
Mince Stuffed Peppers
You can stuff peppers with just about anything. Peppers are great stuffed with rice or couscous but this recipe for mince stuffed peppers is a favourite. You can vary the flavourings and add vegetables or nuts to the mix. Use the recipe as a basis to implement your own ideas and flavours.
More Stuffed Pepper Recipes
Serve with a leafy salad or your favourite cooked vegetable.
You will need a large frying pan, a cheese grater and a baking tray
Stuffed Peppers With Mince Recipe
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 4 peppers – any colour, similar size
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion peeled and chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
- 500g / 1lb lean mince
- 2 tablespoons tomato puree
- 14oz / 400g can tomatoes
- 55g / 2oz frozen peas
- 1 teaspoon mixed herbs
- splash worcester sauce
- 25g / 1oz grated cheddar cheese
Cooking Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C
- Prepare the peppers by cutting in half and removing seeds and pith
- Place the peppers ion a large roasting tray and brush with olive oil
- Roast for 15 minutes or until soft and beginning to char then remove from oven
- Meanwhile heat the olive oil in a frying pan and gently fry the onions until soft
- Add the mince and garlic and brown the mince
- Add the tomatoes, tomato puree, worcester sauce peas and mixed herbs and stir
- Cook for 20 minutes
- Place the peppers skin side down on a baking tray
- Fill each pepper with the mince mixture
- Top each with cheese
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes
- Serve with a mixed salad and crusty bread
Hello Penny.
Just want to say thank you so much for the recipe Green Peppers and mince. Going to make it tonight for my boyfriend. He eats differently to me. I am on a strict diet and may only eat certain foods. This recipe looks so easy.
Many thanks.
Greetings from South Africa.. xx
I love this recipe Penny, I think I might have a go at this one, and cook it on the BBQ over the summer.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Marcus
Just wanted to say what a fantasticly delicious and easy recipe this is! My husband hates vegetables so am always looking for imaginative ways to sneak them in.. The peppers taste soo sweet and I even added a hint of chilli to give it a bit of a kick! Thank you for the recipe, will look out for others 🙂
Hi Penny, just wanted to thank you for the fab recipe and even greater website! Being relatively new to cooking and having a 9 month old baby, I don’t have much time or energy for cooking. Made these tasty stuffed peppers this evening and they were a smash hit! My little one really enjoyed the stuffing and I was impressed with how filling two pepper halves were! I did make one small change to the recipe, switched half the mince for some leftover cooked millet from the day before. Thanks for the beautiful dinner and bookmarked your site so we can enjoy more of delicious food. (P.s. Also a big thank you for the confidence boost this has given me as I sometimes feel a bit unsure in the kitchen)
Thank you for your lovely comment. It is good to know the recipe worked out so well for you and your little one. I love that you used up your cooked millet – watch out for the competition on food waste soon – that is the sort of thing we will be looking out for.
So pleased that it gave you a confidence boost too – that made my day too!!
Hi,
You say to bake in oven for twenty minutes but not on what temperature?
David
Oops – Thank you very much for pointing that out – 190 degrees C. I have now corrected it. 🙂