STUFFED PEPPER SOUP

Stuffed Pepper Soup recipe makes the appropriate easy, remedy meals meal for weeknight dinners. Everyone gobbles up this household favourite model filled with bell peppers, rice, flooring beef, and a flavorful tomato base.



Ingredients

  • 2 kilos flooring beef
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 bell peppers (any color), chopped
  • (3) 8 ounce cans tomato sauce
  • (2) 14 ounce cans diced tomatoes, undrained
  • 2 cups pork broth
  • 2 cups water
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 1/2 cups prompt rice* (see recipe notes for substituting lengthy grain white or brown rice)
  • chopped contemporary parsley or freshly grated parmesan cheese, for serving

Instructions

  • In a big pot brown flooring chuck with chopped onion and garlic for 7-8 minutes, or till pork is cooked by means of and onions are translucent. Drain liquid and return to stove.
  • To the flooring pork upload chopped peppers, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, 2 cups pork broth, water, brown sugar, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil then cut back warmth and simmer UNCOVERED for 20 minutes.
  • Add prompt rice and proceed to simmer for 5-10 minutes, or till rice is cooked. Add further pork broth within the event you desire thinner soup. Serve with chopped parsley or freshly grated parmesan cheese.

Recipe Notes

  • If you desire utilizing lengthy grain white or brown rice, train 2-3 cups cooked rice (3/4-1 cup uncooked) whereas soup is simmering on stove, gradual cooker, or drive cooker. Add cooked rice after soup has simmered. 

How to Make Stuffed Pepper Soup in a Slow Cooker

  • In a skillet brown beef, garlic, and onions till pork is cooked by means of and onions are translucent, about 7-8 minutes.
  • Transfer pork combination to the gradual cooker alongside with last ingredients, besides for rice.
  • Cook on excessive for three hours or low 6-8 hours.
  • Towards the give up of cooking train dinner prompt rice or lengthy grain rice separately. Add to soup on the give up of gradual cooking. Alternatively, scoop cooked rice onto bowls of soup when serving.

How to Make Stuffed Pepper Soup in an Instant Pot

  • Brown beef, onion, and garlic utilizing drive cooker saute function. Drain grease, if necessary.
  • Place last ingredients, besides rice, within the Instant Pot - broth, water, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, brown sugar, italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
  • Stir, safe with lid, seal valve, and train dinner at HIGH drive for 5 minutes. 
  • Let drive launch naturally for 5 minutes, then speedy release.
  • Add prompt rice and simmer for 5 minutes. Alternatively stir in 2-3 cups of cooked white or brown rice, depending in your favored soup consistency.

How to Freeze Stuffed Pepper Soup

  • Yes, but go away omit the rice from the recipe. Freeze cooled soup in serving measurement pieces or in big gallon freezer bag.
  • When equipped to serve, upload cooked rice to the bowls after the soup has thawed and been reheated.
  • You would possibly freeze the soup with the rice in it, however the rice will take up the liquid and make the soup thicker. Once thawed, you can even additionally just should upload further water, pork broth, or tomato sauce to thin it again out.

Nutrition Facts

  • Stuffed Pepper Soup
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories 326Calories from Fat 171
  • % Daily Value*
  • Fat 19g29%
  • Saturated Fat 7g44%
  • Cholesterol 64mg21%
  • Sodium 823mg36%
  • Potassium 534mg15%
  • Carbohydrates 21g7%
  • Fiber 2g8%
  • Sugar 7g8%
  • Protein 18g36%
  • Vitamin A 933IU19%
  • Vitamin C 38mg46%
  • Calcium 54mg5%

Iron 4mg22%

A ordinary Stuffed Pepper Soup recipe has remedy meals written throughout it. Ground beef, rice, and lots of bell peppers in a wealthy tomato sauce at all times appears to hit the spot with my family.

Plus I love how this easy-to-make soup makes use of simple, economical ingredients, is low calorie, and freezes vast for destiny meals.

Whether you've got little as 30 minutes or desire it to train dinner all day, select which cooking technique works greatest for you. The greatest Stuffed Pepper Soup recipe could be made on the stove, crockpot, or drive cooker!

HOW TO MAKE STUFFED PEPPER SOUP (STOVE TOP)
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In a big pot brown flooring pork with garlic and onions.
Add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, brown sugar, pork broth, water, seasoning, pepper, and onion.
Reduce warmth and simmer for 20 minutes, or till peppers are tender. Add the rice and train dinner 5-10 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper, if necessary.

HOW TO MAKE STUFFED PEPPER SOUP IN A SLOW COOKER
In a skillet brown beef, garlic, and onions till pork is cooked by means of and onions are translucent, about 7-8 minutes.
Transfer pork combination to the gradual cooker alongside with last ingredients, besides for rice.
Cook on excessive for three hours or low 6-8 hours.
Towards the give up of cooking train dinner prompt rice or lengthy grain rice separately. Add to soup on the give up of gradual cooking. Alternatively, scoop cooked rice onto bowls of soup when serving.

HOW TO MAKE STUFFED PEPPER SOUP IN AN INSTANT POT
Brown beef, onion, and garlic utilizing drive cooker saute function. Drain grease, if necessary.
Add last ingredients, besides rice, within the Instant Pot – broth, water, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, brown sugar, italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
Stir, safe with lid, seal valve, and train dinner at HIGH drive for 5 minutes.
Let drive launch naturally for 5 minutes, then speedy release.
Add prompt rice and simmer for 5 minutes. Alternatively stir in 2-3 cups of cooked white or brown rice, depending in your favored soup consistency.
a black ladle scooping out crammed pepper soup out of a pot

SUBSTITUTING DIFFERENT TYPES OF RICE
Stuffed Pepper Soup recipe calls for utilizing prompt rice for a pair reasons. First, it saves the step of cooking the rice separately. Secondly, whereas the rice chefs within the tomato base it releases starches and thickens the soup.

Traditional white rice or brown rice would possibly be substituted, though. If you desire those varieties of rice, train 3/4 to at least one cup of raw rice whereas soup is simmering. This will yield 2-3 cups cooked rice.

Add cooked rice on the give up of the recipe or dish it into bowls as you serve it. Adding the cooked rice as you serve it's useful for storing leftovers.

Rice will take up the liquid as it's kept within the refrigerator or freezer, so the soup will turn out to be very thick. It would possibly be thinned out upon reheating, but maintaining the rice separate avoids having to do this.

HOW TO THICKEN OR THIN STUFFED GREEN PEPPER SOUP
Thinning soup: Add further water, pork broth, or tomato sauce till wanted consistency is reached.

Thickening soup: Add further cooked rice, cut back the quantity of water or pork broth, or skim off ladles of liquid on the give up of cooking. Note: Soup will proceed to thicken as sits simply due to the fact rice absorbs liquid.

CAN I FREEZE STUFFED PEPPER SOUP?
Yes, but go away omit the rice from the recipe. Freeze cooled soup in serving measurement pieces or in big gallon freezer bag.

When equipped to serve, upload cooked rice to the bowls after the soup has thawed and been reheated.

You would possibly freeze the soup with the rice in it, however the rice will take up the liquid and make the soup thicker. Once thawed, you can even additionally just should upload further water, pork broth, or tomato sauce to thin it again out.

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TIPS FOR MAKING STUFFED PEPPER SOUP
Want to make this recipe extra healthy? Swap out flooring turkey for the flooring pork or cut back the quantity of brown sugar.
This makes a thick, hearty soup. If you desire your soup thinner, upload and an further cup of pork broth or cut back quantity of rice.
Rice will take up the liquid within the soup and make it thicker upon sitting. Adding further water or pork broth would possibly be essential throughout reheating. To store away from this, preserve the cooked rice separate and upload it bowls as serving.
Brown rice or lengthy grain white rice would possibly be substituted for the prompt rice. Cook brown or white rice separately whereas soup is simmering and upload it on the end.
Make this recipe even extra decadent by topping the soup with shredded cheese. Try freshly grated parmesan or shredded mozzarella.
I used red and yellow peppers for this recipe simply due to the fact I desire the sweeter taste. Green peppers would possibly be substituted.

Stuffed Pepper Soup
Stuffed Pepper Soup is the greatest recipe out for an easy, healthy, flavorful, one pot remedy food. Slow cooker and Instant Pot directions included as well.