A hearty beef substitute for “Italian-style” stuffed peppers that goes well with mashed potatoes or any side dish made with white rice.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 3 |
| Yield: | 3 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
- ½ white onion, diced
- 2 cups beef gravy
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 small red bell peppers, halved and seeded
- ¾ cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Brown beef in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Halfway through browning, add mushrooms and onion. Continue cooking until meat is fully browned; drain fat from skillet. Stir in enough gravy to bond mixture without making it soupy. Season with salt and pepper, and set aside.
- Meanwhile, heat a medium saucepan of water until boiling. Place peppers in water, and boil for 2 to 3 minutes, until just tender; remove from water. Place peppers, hollow side up, in a 9×13 inch baking dish, and fill each with beef mixture.
- Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until bubbling. Top with cheese, and bake for an additional 5 to 10 minutes. Serve in a small pool of gravy.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 600 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 18 g |
| Cholesterol | 122 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 37 g |
| Saturated Fat | 17 g |
| Sodium | 1281 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Fat | 43 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is an awesome recipe! I am not a fan of tomatoes so this was a nice alternative recipe. At the suggestion of other reviews, I seasoned the beef, mushroom, onion combo a lot more. added smoked paprika, garlic and cayenne. I followed the recipe other than adding seasonings, and it is a KEEPER in this house!!
very good basic recipe to start with and modify to your liking
I had leftover spicy sausage and 1/3 pound leftover hamburger meat. It turned out delicious!
I changed the gravy for diced tomatoes. Love stuffed peppers. Thank you.
Add more gravy.
This recipe is perfect for us. Tomato sauce recipes cause heartburn. This is a perfect substitute.
I added some rice to fill it out and absorb liquid. I also added celery, 4 cloves of garlic, used a red onion and seasoned with Cajun. I also took the advice of a commentor and didn’t cook the peppers beforehand, adding 1/2 inch of water to the pan so the peppers were al dente. Good recipe, will probably make again, with a few more variations
These turned out fantastic and I will definitely be making them again. Thanks for a great recipe!
Changed the recipe by replacing the gravy with 3 tbs tomato paste and 1/2 cup water. Added cilantro as garnish
I was looking for a simple recipe for stuffed bell peppers, and this is it. I didn’t have beef gravy or mushrooms available, but I did have a very chunky organic condensed cream of portabella mushroom soup and some really tasty low-sodium beef bouillon cubes. So, I dissolved 2 bouillon cubes in 16 oz of the condensed mushroom soup (without thinning it) and used that in place of gravy and mushrooms in the recipe. I added some crushed garlic, too. Otherwise I followed the recipe as written. I served it with garlic-&-herb mashed potatoes & a side salad. Short-cuts for this recipe: Use diced frozen onions. Monthly brown 4 pounds of lean ground beef, put 1/4 of the browned, drained meat into each of 4 quart-size ziploc bags, & freeze until needed. In this case, you’d just grab a bag of the precooked browned beef, throw it in the skillet long enough to sautée the onions & mushrooms, then just add gravy since it’s already drained. Gluten-free alternative: use GF gravy or use my modification with Pacific Natural Foods Cream of Mushroom condensed soup & GF bouillon cubes. Lower the fat content by rinsing the drained ground beef with hot water, and using vegetarian ground beef replacement for 1/2 of the ground beef, and using low-fat cheese. (Using rice or bread as extenders will add starchy carbs.)
I added a few extra seasonings but it was delicious! Meets phase one of the south beach diet. Thanks for sharing.
Good. I switched ground beef out and used spicy ground sausage. It was fantastic!
This was the best stuffed pepper recipe that I have ever tried! Everyone in my family liked it! Definitely putting this into the rotation!
This was delicious. I modified this recipe slightly by using Johnsonville sausage instead of beef and red peppers. It was delicious!
One of our family’s favorite meals. I do make it with red peppers and substitute pork sausage for the beef. YUMMMY!
Really good. Used mozzarella cheese and added garlic and adobo to the meat mixture…yum!
This recipe is amazing! The only thing I did differently was dice up the pepper tops and add them to the meet mixture, I also mixed 1 cup of shredded Monterey Jack Cheese in the meat mixture, and chopped up one jalepeno pepper and put it into the meat mixture. With everything else, I followed the recipe. I did though add more mushrooms. This is a recipe to share! Thank You to whoever posted it! 🙂
Beefy and Yummy! Served over mashed potatoes!
These turned out so great my husband and 7yr old son really loved them so easy,, i did add half a cup cooked basmatti rice with magie cube to the mix and it was just perfect addition to this recipie yummm…
This was pretty good but I agree with other reviewers that it needs seasoning. I served it over brown rice, but I think it would be better with mashed potatoes.
delicious and i think next time I will add a package of taco mix sauce or something like that to help spice it up a bit.