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Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

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Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers are wonderful classic meal that is easily made in the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

This recipe for Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers I used a marinara sauce, which was  a first for me. I’ve made them with a sweetened diced tomato sauce, a salsa for the sauce, and a ketchup brown sugar topping. I really like the way these stuffed peppers are with the marinara sauce, it tasted great with the beef, rice and bell peppers.

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

I’ve been ordering my groceries online at Fred Meyer. That is not something you want to do if you want certain shape of bell peppers. I could not get these peppers to stand up! I had to cut the bottoms off to get them to stay upright. I had a good laugh about it later, but I did save some time not having to grocery shop.

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

There was extra filling after I stuffed the peppers, I add that to the marinara sauce at the bottom of the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers

Here is my YouTube video of this recipe, SO EASY! You can follow me on YouTube, here.

I think you will love this recipe. I’ve already made it again before I had time to post this! I hope try this recipe in-between some holiday recipes I have coming up. Have a great week.

Slow Cooker Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers
 
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Serves: 5
Ingredients
  • 1 lb. ground beef, browned
  • 5 bell peppers, tops cut off and diced for filling
  • 1.5 cups cooked rice (can be leftover rice)
  • 1 (24-oz.) jar marinara sauce, divided
  • 1 small white onion diced
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ¼ tsp. garlic powder
  • ½ tsp. dried thyme
  • ½ tsp. dried tarragon (oregano works well too)
Slow Cooker Size:
  • 5-quart or larger
Instructions
  1. Add the beef, cut up bell pepper tops, rice, 1 cup of the marinara sauce, onion, salt, garlic powder, thyme and tarragon to a medium sized bowl. Stir.
  2. Stuff the peppers with the filling you just made. If there is any leftover filling add it to the bottom of the slow cooker.
  3. Add remaining marinara sauce to the slow cooker.
  4. Add the stuffed peppers in the slow cooker. I try not to let them rest on the sides of the slow cooker, but most of the time they end up falling over later.
  5. Cover and cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.

I used my trusty 6-quart slow cooker for this recipe, though any slow cooker 5-quarts or larger will work fine!

Sarah

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  1. Jessica Murray says

    November 27, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    I am a little confused with this recipe. The photos show you using browned beef, but the recipe says nothing about pre-browning and reads as if the beef is uncooked. Which is it?

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  2. Peter Mickelson says

    November 28, 2017 at 6:56 am

    This must definitely be a Springfield recipe, as my wife use to prepare this meal a couple of times every year and she was raised in Springfield. Springfield H.S. class of ’67.

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  3. Joe says

    December 11, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    I want to make this for somebody who is unsure about green bell peppers due to their bitterness, would using a different color of bell pepper work also?

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    • Michelle Beam says

      March 18, 2019 at 9:37 pm

      Choosing the right bell pepper is easy. Flip the pepper over. You will see either 3 humps or 4 humps. The pepper with 3 humps are the male pepper and the 4 hump peppers are female. The female peppers are sweeter and good for eating them raw. The make peppers are less sweet and are used in cooking.

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  6. Anonymous says

    February 19, 2019 at 1:46 am

    I have never used a crock pot to make stuffed peppers. I have always cooked them in a pot on the stove top. I usually boil the peppers to soften them a little. Would I need to boil them if I make them in a crock pot?

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