This classic Flemish dish is a staple during the colder months. Best served with green beans or a salad and French fries.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 25 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 stuffed peppers |
Ingredients
- 6 bell peppers, any color
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 egg
- 4 slices whole wheat bread, cubed
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 small tomato, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ cup chili sauce
- ¼ cup prepared yellow mustard
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8×8-inch baking dish.
- Lightly mix together ground beef, egg, bread cubes, onion, tomato, garlic, chili sauce, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper in a bowl.
- Wash peppers, and cut jack-o’-lantern faces into peppers with a sharp paring knife, making triangle eyes and noses, and pointy-teeth smiles. Slice off tops of peppers, and scoop out seeds and cores. Stuff peppers lightly with beef stuffing, and place them into the prepared baking dish so they lean against each other.
- Bake in the preheated oven until peppers are tender and the stuffing is cooked through and juicy, about 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 266 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| Cholesterol | 78 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 752 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made it for a dinner party. Instead of l hamburger I used ground turkey and it came out great. It was served on Garlic Mashed Cauliflower and Roasted Brussel Sprouts. For dessert we had Boo-Berry Turnovers with Ghostly Whipped Cream.
I am not a fan of bell peppers. That said, I found these really greater! I have actually made these often now, with small variations in the making. Sub grind sausage not so good alone but added with other ground meat was a good deal. Ground Pork, was really good. Ground fish of different kinds was ok but required some fine tuning of the other ingredients (to do). Sub rice was a great upgrade. Add some pineapple tidbits was good flavor booster added fine chopped water chestnuts was good interesting but probably not something I will use again.
My family enjoyed this, and ask for it each Halloween.
Really easy to make. Great flavor. Love it.
The filling was delicious and, with some care, you can make the scariest or sweetest jack-o-lanterns you want from the peppers! I did end up making another batch and this time I added 1 1/2 cups cooked rice to the filling, which stretched it out to fill more peppers and still didn’t overwhelm the taste of the original. What do you do with extra pepper pieces that is easy? Add them to a jar of marinara sauce, add some minced garlic and onion if desired, and cook for a short time until the peppers get a little softer. Serve on top of the peppers or add to put on the filling when you scoop it out. Thanks for such a great and simple recipe!
Did it without the face. Very good but too much bread. Next time I will use less. Good taste .
Great meal for evening meal and also good reheated. Have it marked as a regular meal.
Absolutely delicious. I added the parts of pepper I cut out for faces into the beef mixture and sprinkled cheese on top before putting them in the oven.
Love making it every October!
I used a version of this recipe and added components of another. I used precooked rice instead of using the bread and egg. and boiled the bell peppers for a few minutes to cook them a bit. this shortened the cooking time and just worked for me. I loved the idea of the jack o latern face and everything about this recipe.
Great! But too much work for something that wasn’t smashing.
Made it in 2016 and it was nice; festive and fun. Taste was good so it’s on my list for a fun Halloween buffet.
Made this on Halloween, and it was a hit! Easy, delicious, and adorable! I did use italian breadcrumbs instead of pieces of bread, and like other reviewers suggested, cut the amount of mustard to 2 teaspoons. Other than that, made as directed. It’s a winner, go for it! (And the carving was so easy, took no time at all.)
I’ve been making this for years now. I make it just as the recipe states and it turns out great. It’s different than the other type of stuffed peppers I make with rice and beef, it’s a nice change. Sometimes I cook it in the slow cooker 3-4 hours on high. The whole family likes it and it has become a family tradition on Halloween 🙂 Thanks for the great recipe!
It was a hit with my family! I substituted rice for the bread and it came out great. Our 8 year old even had seconds!
These tasted good and were so cute!
I really wanted to love this. The idea is great but the flavor was just okay. It wasn’t bad at all but we just went…”eh…it’ll do.” Nothing special. I’ll probably still keep looking…but I LOVE the idea of cutting out the jack-o-lanterns. My kids loved that.
Rather than beef, I used turkey. Sautéed minced garlic and diced onion. Added ground turkey. Once cooked, I added tomato sauce and tomato paste and seasoning salt. Then, added cooked minute rice. Stuffed the peppers and baked them. Big hit during our Halloween weekend at camp. – I also made a vegetarian version using a can of red beans, black beans, mushrooms, black olives, diced tomatoes, tomato paste and brown rice.
I made mine with vegetarian “crumbles” Amazing and they turned out so cute!
This recipe is so good! I substituted rice for whole wheat bread along with some bread crumbs. It was really easy which is important to me because i don’t cook as my screen name suggests! People had suggested to add less mustard which is also did. This is the type of recipe where you can really do what you want. May try (as someone suggested) a vegetarian recipe with black beans instead of ground beef. Wonderful!!!
These easy Halloween peppers will be repeated every year. They were a big hit with my family. So cute! I used my own ground turkey and rice concoction for the filling.