Unstuffed Peppers

Try these Unstuffed Peppers for an easy, healthy dinner! Our kids actually EAT the peppers when we cut them up and mix them in with the seasoned beef!

Who doesn’t love easy, 15 minute dinners like this? Be sure and try our equally easy Beefy Tomato Soup or this 8 minute air fryer or 15 minute oven dinner, Chinese Boneless Spareribs!

A Dinner Recipe Your Kids Will Love!

Do you love making stuffed peppers? I mean, yes, I do. But my kids will hungrily eat the filling out and leave that big pepper behind. Recently we’ve made more stuffed pepper recipes that I absolutely LOVE. And I have to say our kids actually do eat the pepper now, we’ve got ’em trained;)

I can’t say too much, I did that too for most of my life. We weren’t a big vegetable family growing up so the bowl of frozen peas and carrots was only on the table for special occasions or holidays.

Now we try and have fresh vegetables on the table every night, or at least a dinner that involves vegetables like stuffed peppers. So to prevent our kids from just eating the filling we created this Unstuffed Pepper recipe instead.

All you need to do is dice the peppers and cook them with the beef and onions when you make the “filling”, but the filling is the dinner.

Once you add the tomato sauce and let the beef simmer together with the vegetables…you won’t be able to stop eating it right from the pan.

How Do You Serve These Unstuffed Peppers?

We like to serve this recipe over rice or pasta like elbow macaroni (really any pasta will do, it’s almost like a meat sauce with peppers) but you can also serve it over cauliflower rice for a low carb dinner!

Piling this beef filling on buns like a peppery sloppy joe also works. A topping for nachos, add beans and make a quick chili…there’s so many things you can do with this Unstuffed Peppers recipe besides just eating it as is!

Do I Have To Make This Recipe With Beef?

Nope, you can use ground turkey or pork or even ground chicken or lamb. The peppers kind of have to stay or this wouldn’t be a twist on a stuffed pepper recipe but you can definitely swap out the type of meat.

On that note, you can absolutely sneak more vegetables into this recipe, too! We have teenage boys in our house now so we’re WAY past trying to get our kids to eat.

WAY past that. Now we just try and keep our refrigerators full of food. Going to the grocery store every 2 or 3 days is not unheard if. ALL THEY DO IS EAT.

But I do feel like we gave them a good food foundation, not making too many separate meals when they were young (I won’t say never, just not often)  and introducing them to all sorts of different foods as much as we could. Dinner recipes like this one definitely helped when they were younger, they ate this up like rock stars, and still do!

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Unstuffed Peppers

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• Author: Dan
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 20 minutes
• Yield: 4 1x

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This super easy dinner recipe will help get the vegetables in your kids mouths instead of leaving them behind!

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Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
• 3 cups diced bell peppers (mixed colors)
• 1 cup diced onion
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 1/2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 cups of tomato sauce

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Instructions

1. Add the olive oil to a skillet over medium heat. Brown the ground beef until cooked through and drain any excess grease form the pan.
2. Add the peppers, onions and garlic to the beef. Stir and cook for 5-7 minutes until the vegetables are softened.
3. Add in the cumin, salt and pepper, soy sauce, worcestershire sauce and the tomato sauce. Stir well to combine and then taste for seasonings.
4. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes and serve.

• Category: Dinner
• Method: Stove Top
• Cuisine: American