Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers

Cooked stuffed pepper, cut in half. On white plate with side salad. On a wooden table with garlic and wooden board in background.

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Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers are the ultimate easy weeknight dinner for busy families. It only takes 15 minutes to prep this complete meal, then the crockpot does the rest! It's a perfect cozy and nutritious comfort food that makes feeding your family stress-free and delicious.

Prep Time15

Cook Time3

Total Time3 15

Servings: servings

Calories: 302kcal

Ingredients

6 bell peppers
1½ pounds 93% lean ground beef
1½ cups cooked rice
½ cup parmesan cheese
¼ cup finely chopped fresh parsely
4 cloves garlic minced
2 teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon oregano
24 ounces marinara sauce (1 jar)

Instructions

Cut the tops off of the bell peppers and remove any seeds and ribs from inside the peppers, leaving a hollow shell.
In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, cooked rice, parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, salt, pepper and oregano. Use your hands to work the mixture until everything is evenly distributed.
Use a fork to punch holes in the bottom of each pepper then stuff ⅙ of the meat mixture in each hollowed bell pepper.
Pour about ¾ of the marinara sauce in the bottom of the slow cooker. Place each pepper upright in the slow cooker on top of the sauce. Then Top each pepper with the remaining sauce.
Cook on low for 3-4 hours or until cooked through (160˚F internal temperature.) Once done, remove the peppers and serve on a bed of the marinara sauce from the bottom of the crockpot.

Notes

It's important to use lean ground beef 93% or above. If you use fattier ground beef you will find the dish to be very greasy since it can't easily be drained.

If you are having trouble standing the peppers up, you can cut off a small section at the bottom so that it is flat and easier to stand up.

Make sure and poke holes in the bottom of the peppers to allow them to drain as they cook. I use a fork to make two pokes all the way through the bottom to the inside.

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