This Easy Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers recipe is super quick and easy to make! Enjoy!
I’ve been craving my Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Stuffed Peppers lately. Where I’m in Brazil, it isn’t very easy to find the type of sweet potato we have in North America. I decided for obvious reasons to mix things up and change my original recipe.
This time, my stuffed peppers don’t have sweet potato, but instead, they have green beans and carrots, which were just veggies I have in my fridge.
I have to confess, these changes aren’t bad at all. Actually, it tastes really good and it’s faster to make! Green beans and carrots take less time to cook than the sweet potatoes.
This time I also replaced the feta cheese for the parmesan because I think green beans go better with this cheese than with feta. Of course, if you want to make this recipe paleo friendly, you just need to omit the cheese. Don’t worry! These stuffed peppers will be flavorful even without the cheese.
This recipe is very easy to make. You just need to sauté the onions, garlic, and carrots for about 10 minutes and then add the ground turkey. Cook the meat until it is no longer pink and add the homemade tomato sauce, and green beans.
Then, the mixture will be ready to stuff in the peppers. Finally, you will bake them for 30 minutes and dinner will be done. Easy and peasy!
I love how easy it is to cook with ground turkey. If you have extra, you should try to make my Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet Recipe and Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet.
Easy Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ cup onions diced
- ½ cup carrots diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 cups ground turkey
- ½ cup homemade tomato sauce
- 1 cup green beans diced
- Salt and fresh ground black pepper
- 2 big bell peppers cut in half
- Parmesan
- Fresh parsley for garnishing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat.
- Add onions, carrots, and garlic. Cook until the onions are translucent and the carrots tender.
- Add the ground turkey and cook until the meat is not pink anymore. Make sure to break apart the meat with a wooden spoon as it cooks.
- Add homemade tomato sauce, green beans, salt, and pepper. Cook for more 3-5 minutes.
- Arrange the peppers in a greased baking dish, cavity side facing up.
- Fill each bell pepper halves with the ground turkey-green beans mix.
- Bake uncovered for about 30 minutes, or until the peppers are cooked and soft.
- Remove from the oven and garnish with parmesan and parsley.
Notes
- For the bell peppers, keep in mind that the sweetest ones are the red bell peppers and the greens are the least sweet, so I try to use red, orange, or yellow bell peppers.
- You can put the onion, carrots, and garlic into a food processor to mince them finely so they fit into the bell peppers.
- Make sure to trim the green beans before using, as the ends can be tough and stringy.
- To store: Place stuffed pepper leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
- To reheat: You can reheat the stuffed bell peppers in the microwave or oven.
- To freeze: Tightly wrap up each of the stuffed peppers and freeze them for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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This is the best ground turkey recipe I’ve come across so far! The first time I made it I only had the mini bell peppers, so instead of doing “stuffed peppers” per say, I lay the cut mini peppers on the bottom of the dish, covered them with the turkey/green bean mixture and then baked it. It came out SO DELICIOUS, with the same flavors as stuffed peppers. The second time I played with the recipe. Again I only had mini peppers, so instead of stuffed peppers I chopped them up with the other veggies and cooked everything, then mixed with cooked meat, layered on top of mini golden yellow potatoes and baked it all…SO delicious! Thank you for this new go-to recipe for my family!
Awesome!!!!