Stuffed Pepper Casserole

My hubby loves stuffed peppers and when our peppers are ready from the garden, I pick a pepper and I make stuffed peppers fresh from the garden.

This year after our vegetables were done producing Rich cleaned up all the plants to get ready for a fall planting. The only plants he left were three pepper plants that had a few small peppers on them still. Everytime Lia checked the garden she would pick all the small peppers. They were perfect to cut into quarters and freeze for future meals.

This is blog I wrote about Lia learning to cut peppers. While she’s only using a plastic McD’s knife it’s still sharp enough to cut the peppers and it’s a great way to teach her about knives being sharp. She even separated the seeds from the seed pod so we can plant them next year. http://themarthareview.com/lia-learning-to-cut-peppers/

So now I have all these small pieces of frozen peppers and hubby wants stuffed peppers. I have two choices, buy peppers at the store or come up with a way to make stuffed peppers from the cut up pieces of peppers from our garden.

Okay brainstorm between my granddaughter Alexandra and me. We came up with the idea to make a stuffed pepper casserole!

I always keep individually frozen ground beef patties in the freezer so I took 2 of them and cooked them and a chopped onion until brown. I added 2 cups of spaghetti sauce and seasoning to taste. Next I added 4 cups of cooked rice and let it simmer.

I poured this mix into a baking dish and added the small pieces of pepper all around the top of the casserole baking it for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Stuffed peppers are a meal in them self. I like fried peppers but I’m not a fan of stuffed peppers but I do love the stuffing. It reminds me of the spanish rice my grandmother use to make when I was younger.

This is just another quick, inexpensive but filling meal. These are my favorite type of meals!

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Martha DeMeo

I started my blog on Christmas Day 2014 mainly to review products I received. Since then it has evolved into many other categories of lifestyles, family, money saving ideas, low cost, delicious and healthy meals plus other surprise posts. My granddaughter has her own category, Alex's Articles and the latest addition to my blog is my great granddaughter now has her category, Lia's Likings The Baby Blogger! Lia started blogger at 8 months old and she now has a Friday Story Time blog you won't want to miss! I welcome you to join the conversation, ask a question, give a suggestion or leave a comment on any blog post. I hope you enjoy Lia's Likings, she has some great posts that will make you smile!

14 Discussion to this post

  1. I just picked a few peppers from my pandemic victory garden. I should give this recipe a try. We aren’t using them fast enough otherwise.

  2. Amrita says:

    I love making stuffed peppers .They are lovely to eat.

  3. Great recipe concept, Martha! I also don’t like stuffed peppers (but hubby does), so this might meet both our needs. I could put the peppers only on “his side” of the casserole! LOL

  4. Yes I am hungry, and that looks delicious, Martha! Great idea. I love casseroles!! The only thing is, they go so fast, I always want to make enough for leftovers, but that is rarely the case, LOL. Maybe you could write a post about how to make a casserole that *will* have leftovers?

    • Martha says:

      Great new blog topic Jeanine! I usually make a large casserole so I will have leftovers since they always seem better the second (or third) day!

  5. I haven’t made stuffed peppers in a long while. I have some (really ancient) chopped beef- or maybe just use quinoa. Thanks for the dinner suggestions.

  6. Martha, O. M. G. This sounds so delicious! Of course, I would be tempted to make the recipe, then add a good layer of cheese–maybe Monterey Jack?– and melt it under the broiler. Thanks for another great post!

  7. Amanda Gene says:

    That looks so good. Makes my mouth water.

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