28 Stuffed Pepper Recipes That Are Guaranteed to Please

Whenever you’ve got an abundance of one ingredient on hand, it can be difficult to know how to use it up. Not with bell peppers, though! These colorful beauties are the perfect vessel for holding whatever you’ve got on hand — ground beef, rice, cheeses and more. Packed full of everyone’s favorite add-ins and cooked until tender, they become the perfect family-friendly meal. A dish with seemingly unlimited variations, stuffed peppers are one of our favorite comfort foods any way you make them. Fill them with whole grains, top them with feta or give them a Tex-Mex twist — they’re always a win. You can even make them in the Instant Pot for classic flavor in a fraction of the time!

We've made this classic easier and faster by using the microwave to par-cook the peppers, saving you about 45 minutes of cook time! This is a great recipe to use up leftover rice. Be sure to really pile in the filling (mounding it is ok) as it will shrink as it cooks.

A flavorful blend of spinach, bulgur and lean ground beef fills these sweet red peppers, which are sprinkled with feta cheese and baked until tender.

This dish looks particularly vibrant when you use a combination of sweet yellow, red and orange bell peppers. Pick the largest ones you can find, with the flattest, most stable bottoms so they remain standing once they're stuffed and baked in the tomato sauce. These peppers are delicious hot out of the oven or served Mediterranean-style at room temperature.