stuffed pepper
Loaded bell vegetable
A stuffed pepper is a bell pepper hollowed out, filled with a mixture of meat, rice, vegetables, or cheese, then baked.
The dish appears across many cuisines—from Middle Eastern to Mexican to Eastern European—with fillings varying by region: We're having stuffed peppers for dinner.
The pepper serves as both vessel and vegetable.
- capsicumPepper plant or fruit
- ground beefChopped cattle flesh
- riceStaple cereal grain
- tomato sauceCooked, seasoned puréed fruit
- paprikaGround dried pepper
Hungarian · old world · dolma · filling · baked · hollowed · colorful · savory · one pot meal · cheese · meat · oregano · garlic · onion · Mediterranean · comfort food · oven · roasted
- peppersjalapeño, habanero, capsicum, cayenne, paprika
- chili peppersjalapeno, habanero, serrano, cayenne, poblano
- ground meatground beef, ground pork, ground lamb, ground turkey, ground chicken
- Pepperpeppercorn, peppercorns, cayenne, jalapeno, habanero