Stuffed Peppers With Chicken
Peppers can be stuffed in so many ways it is often a lovely way to cook a low cost meal, using what you have in your cupboards or fridge. Roasted stuffed peppers are so full of flavour and sweetness and they are a good partner for so many foods – from meat and cheese, to rice, couscous and tomatoes.
Stuffed Peppers With Chilli chicken is easy to make, economical and full of flavour. Serve as a midweek supper or at a dinner party
Not only are peppers delicious but they are high in nutrition too.
With much more vitamin C than an orange, they are high in anti oxidants and low in calories. They are also high in vitamin B6.
The best time to buy peppers is when they are available from local suppliers, fresh from the plant, in the summer, but they are grown all the year round and are available in supermarkets. They are grown in the UK all year round by suppliers such as Thanet Earth.
They are also quite easy to grow yourself and if you love peppers, growing your own can certainly save a lot of money as well as being great fun and satisfying!
Economical Chicken Recipe
Because I like to buy local free range chicken, I tend to use small amounts – to get the flavour but without being too expensive. For this recipe I have used four chicken drumsticks to serve four people. This is enough chicken for plenty of flavour and mixed with the rice and vegetables there is plenty to fill you up. Alternatively you can use some leftover cooked chicken from your Sunday roast
I used 2 chillies to give plenty of spice but you can use more or less than this depending on how hot you like your food. Chillis can vary in how hot they are and I would try to steer clear of the really hot varieties.
Brown Basmati Rice
I used brown basmati rice in this recipe but you can use white rice too. White rice is still good for you and will be delicious in this recipe.
Serve With Salad
I served these stuffed peppers with some salad as the rice and chicken make it quite filling. You could serve with green vegetables and / or some garlic bread.
This is one of several Stuffed Pepper Recipes on this website
Stuffed Peppers With Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 chicken drumsticks
- 200g / 7oz brown rice (or white rice if preferred)
- 4 peppers red, green or yellow peppers – or a mix
- 1 red onion, peeled and chopped
- 2 celery sticks, chopped small
- 1-2 chilli peppers, finely sliced
- 1 dessert spoon tomato puree
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 2-3 tablespoons water
- 100g / 3.5oz Italian style hard cheese (Parmesan, Pecorino or Romano), grated
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2-3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
Cooking Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C
- Place the chicken drumsticks in a roasting dish and bake for about 25 minutes until cooked.
- Meanwhile wash the rice in cold water, and rinse
- Place in a saucepan and cover with boiling water with about 2.5 cm extra cover
- Bring back to the boil and simmer until all water has been absorbed and the rice is soft (about 30 minutes – less time if using white rice)
- Remove the skin from the chicken drumsticks and discard.
- Remove the meat and chop into small pieces
- Slice each pepper in two lengthways and remove the pith and seeds
- Lie them down like bowls in a roasting dish and set aside
- In a large frying pan, heat the oil
- Cook chopped onion until transparent
- Add the celery, garlic and chilli and cook for a further 5 minutes
- Add the rice,chicken, paprika, tomato puree and water and heat through stirring thoroughly
- Turn off the heat and stir in 2/3 of the grated cheese
- Fill all the half peppers with the mixture as evenly as possible
- If there is any mixture over, leave in the pan to reheat and add to the plates when serving
- Sprinkle the top with the remianing grated cheese
- Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes
- Serve hot
Loved the stuffed peppers, but your instructions don’t tell you when to add the chicken or the chopped garlic. For a novice they would be left as 2 piles after the peppers are in the oven.
Thank you so much for pointing that out. It has now been corrected. Glad you enjoyed them anyway!
This looks good, Penny. I’m not a fan of stuffed peppers that use ground beef, but I think I’d enjoy these with chicken. I always keep home-cooked chicken pieces in the freezer for quick meals and this is a great new way to use them! Thanks so much!
I love stuffed peppers but I’ve always struggled to keep them moist throughout, any tips???
Hi Chris – I think the key is to make sure there is enough moisture in the stuffing mix before it goes into the oven. If it looks like drying out, you could always cover them with a piece of foil to keep the moisture in.