Stuffed Pepper Soup
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A super easy, fast, budget-friendly one pot dinner! So hearty and so cozy with ground beef, rice and bell peppers.
If you love stuffed peppers, you will love this as a soup. It takes minimal effort and can be made in 45 min start to finish (with most of the time simmering so all the wonderful flavors can meld together).
The ingredient list is also not very long, with the main ingredients as ground beef, onion, bell peppers, and white rice.
Is this soup freezer-friendly? I will say that after some recipe testing, this soup will not freeze well with the rice as the rice can become mushy once thawed and reheated. If you plan to freeze, I recommend freezing without the rice, adding it in prior to serving. It will make all the difference.
My only ask is to serve with crusty bread, a light salad, and a sprinkling of mozzarella cheese right on top.
Stuffed Pepper Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 medium sweet onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 ½ teaspoons Italian seasoning
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 (14.5-ounce) cans diced tomatoes
- 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
- 3 cups beef broth
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 cups cooked white rice
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Heat canola oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add ground beef and cook until browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the beef as it cooks; drain excess fat and set aside.
- Add onion and bell peppers. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in garlic, Italian seasoning and red pepper flakes until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir in diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, beef broth and ground beef; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until flavors have blended, about 15-20 minutes.
- Stir in rice and parsley until heated through, about 1-2 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
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Delicious. I added extra amount of seasoning.
After reading some comments that this soup lacked flavor, I decided to add a can of mushrooms, one can of fire roasted tomatoes (in place of one of the cans of regular tomatoes) plus about 1/4 cup of red cooking wine. It was okay with the additions, but I don’t think I’ll make it again.
LOVE this soup! So easy and delicious
I feel like it lacked flavor. Not my favorite!
Good, but not great.
Made exactly to recipe, delicious!!!
Made it exactly as the recipe said. Made my own crusty bread to go with it and the meal was delicious.
I made this recipe it was fabulous. I will be making it again
Made this recipe. I added another cup of beef broth and doubled the tomato sauce. I did this because my family likes soup to have a lot of broth. I stepped the rice in some extra broth that I had made. I served the soup over the rice, instead of putting the rice in the soup. The soup was delicious. I will make it again.
This soup is amazing! I made a double batch and shared with my family. It was a big hit.
Love this recipe, so delici
I made this using Beyond meat crumbles and vegetable stock and it was amazing!!
I use cauliflower rice when I make this less carbs.
Could you please tell me how many total carbs per serving?
I’m type 2 diabetic so total NOT NET carbs is very important.
Thank you so much. I’m really anxious to make this delicious soup.
So delicious and easy! Recipe was so easy to follow.
I just made it , I like it ,excellent recipe
Can I can the green pepper soup after I make it, so I can have it for a later time and date?
My experience was that just with regular leftovers, the rice continues to soak up moisture and becomes very mushy, and it was worse (though not bad) reheated. I imagine this would be the main problem with canning.
Any idea how many points this is for weight watchers? And what is a serving size for those point?
This is marked as My Fave! Tonight I had carrots from the garden so I added those. Thanks!
Fast and delicious and was enjoyed by some adult picky eaters!
I have made this a few times and see it becoming one of my go to meals.