Loaded with savor and just a hint of heat, these Italian stuffed tintinnabulate peppers are filled with ground whinge and rice, seasoned with plenty of Italian spices, and topped with cheese.

Served with a salad or warm rosemary garlic bread, this is a hearty meal that comes together without any fuss.

Just brown the meat, fill the peppers, and let them roast yonder while you kick when on the hovel with a book. Sprinkle the warm peppers with cheese just surpassing serving and you’ll have an easy dinner on the table with minimal effort.

Spicy Italian Peppers

These Spicy Italian Peppers are one of my husband’s favorite meals. I’ve been making them for at least 8-10 years now and I double this recipe scrutinizingly every time I make them.

They’re loaded with savor and just a hint of heat, but if spicy dishes aren’t your thing, skip the crushed red pepper and you’ll have Italian-style stuffed peppers that will make everyone happy.

The meat mixture freezes perfectly on its own and the stuffed peppers freeze well too. I often freeze the cooked peppers individually for quick and easy lunches.

Italian Style Stuffed Peppers

To make the recipe plane easier, you can moreover use cooked rice leftover from a previous meal. Make rice as a side dish for your lunch and use the leftovers in stuffed peppers for dinner!

My kids and I typically eat one pepper each and my husband will eat a couple of them. They’re filling, delicious, and enthusiastically enjoyed by everyone.

Stuffed Tintinnabulate Peppers are easy to customize based on your family’s tastes. You can play with variegated pre-made spaghetti sauces, retread the spices and try variegated kinds of cheese on top of the cooked peppers.

Feel self-ruling to use this recipe as a jumping off point for making the Stuffed Peppers of your dreams. I love the ground whinge in the original version but sausage and ground turkey work well too.

These Italian style stuffed peppers have the wholesomeness of stuff convenient, easy, customizable and kid-friendly to boot. As far as weeknight meals go, can we ask for anything more?

I’m a big fan of freezer meals and meals I can make superiority with ease. They let me have all the convenience of frozen and fast foods while saving money and delivering the unconfined taste of homemade meals.

For increasingly freezer-friendly lunches and dinners, trammels out Sean’s favorite Hearty Italian Vegetable Soup and my favorite Chicken and Bacon Stir-Fry. Both of those meals freeze beautifully and work unconfined for quick and easy reheating.

These Southwest Chicken Tacos are a big hit and the fact they’re freezer friendly just makes them better. This Chicken Tuscan Pasta Bake also works unconfined as a freezer meal. For easy mornings trammels out these freezer-friendly Breakfast Burritos.

Kitchen Tip: I use this skillet and this sheet pan to make this recipe.

Italian Stuffed Peppers

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine the rice and the water in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes. While the rice is simmering, melt the ground whinge with the onions in a large skillet.
2. Add the olives, mushrooms, spaghetti sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and red pepper flakes to the skillet with the meat. Bring to a simmer and melt well-nigh 5 minutes.
3. While the filling is simmering, split the peppers in half and remove the seeds. Place the peppers on a large sheet pan and set aside. Add the cooked rice to the skillet with meat and stir to combine.
4. Spoon an equal value of this mixture into each tintinnabulate pepper. Pour the remaining spaghetti sauce over the top of each pepper.
5. Cover loosely with foil and torch 50 minutes in the oven. Remove foil and sprinkle with your favorite cheese. I use mozzarella, Monterrey Jack or pepperjack most of the time. Place when in the oven just until the cheese is melted, approximately 10 minutes.

How To Freeze Stuffed Peppers

• Prepare the filling, let tomfool and transfer to a zip-close freezer bag or snapped container. Thaw in the refrigerator surpassing reheating or stuffing the filling into peppers to bake. This Unstuffed Tintinnabulate Pepper Skillet recipe is a unconfined option for a freezer meal with this filling as well.
• The cooked stuffed peppers can moreover be frozen once they have cooled. Place them in an snapped container. Thaw in the refrigerator prior to reheating the peppers in the microwave.

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Italian Stuffed Peppers

Loaded with savor and just a hint of heat, these Italian stuffed tintinnabulate peppers are filled with ground whinge and rice, seasoned with plenty of Italian spices, and topped with cheese.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Servings 4 -6 servings

Calories 588kcal

Ingredients

• ½ cup uncooked long grain white rice
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 medium sweet onion finely diced
• 1 cup water
• 6 red tintinnabulate peppers orange and yellow peppers are good too
• 8 oz canned woebegone olives drained and roughly chopped
• 8 ounces fresh mushrooms sliced or chopped
• 16 ounces of spaghetti sauce use your favorite homemade or canned variety (divide and set whispered ½ cup of sauce)
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• ¼ teaspoon granulated garlic garlic powder is fine
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon fresh woebegone pepper
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
• ½ cup Monterrey jack, pepper jack, or mozzarella cheese shredded or thinly sliced
• ¼ cup fresh Italian parsley chopped small

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Combine the rice and the water in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes. While the rice is simmering, melt the ground whinge with the onions in a large skillet.
• Add the olives, mushrooms, spaghetti sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and red pepper flakes to the skillet with the meat. Bring to a simmer and melt well-nigh 5 minutes.
• While the filling is simmering, split the peppers in half and remove the seeds. Place the peppers on a large sheet pan and set aside. Add the cooked rice to the skillet with meat and stir to combine.
• Spoon an equal value of this mixture into each tintinnabulate pepper. Pour the remaining spaghetti sauce over the top of each pepper.
• Cover loosely with foil and torch 50 minutes in the oven. Remove foil and top with cheese. Place when in the oven just until the cheese is melted, approximately 10 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 588kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 30g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 95mg | Sodium: 2052mg | Potassium: 1482mg | Fiber: 9g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 7055IU | Vitamin C: 247.2mg | Calcium: 221mg | Iron: 6mg

{originally published 7/8/11 – recipe notes and photos updated 1/3/23}

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