Slow Cooker Taco Meat Loaf Stuffed Peppers
34 Comments May 06, 2016
Updated Oct 02, 2022
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Slow Cooker Taco Meat Loaf Stuffed Peppers are a fun way to switch up your standard stuffed pepper recipe!
If you love stuffed peppers also try my slow cooker stuffed pepper soup for a fun meal this week.
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Hi all! I think stuffed peppers were one of the first slow cooker recipes I made. A co-worker from Marie Callender’s told me all about her favorite recipe years ago, it was something my mom never made.
Since then, I have made variations; some if the meat is browned first, and if it is done that way, the meat and rice are loose in the pepper.
This recipe is a meat loaf mixture with minute rice inside of the pepper, no need to brown the meat, or pre-cook the rice. I used taco flavors in this recipe, taco seasoning, salsa and sour cream are a part of the meat loaf mixture. I also use salsa as the sauce under the peppers.
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Slow Cooker Taco Meat Loaf Stuffed Peppers
Ingredients
The sauce for under the peppers:
- 1 1/2 cup salsa
For the peppers
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 4-5 bell peppers, any colors (4 large sized or 5 medium)
- 1/2 cup diced white onion
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup salsa
- 1.25 oz. taco seasoning mix, (1 packet)
- 15 saltine crackers, crushed
- 1/2 cup minute rice, not cooked
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, add this on top at the end
Instructions
- Add the 1 1/2 cups salsa to the slow cooker.
- Cut the tops off the peppers remove and discard the seeds. Don’t throw away the tops, chop up the top of the pepper and add to the meat loaf filling. In a medium sized bowl add the meat, diced tops from the bell peppers, onion, egg, sour cream, salsa, taco seasoning mix, crushed saltine crackers and rice. With clean hands mix the meat loaf ingredients together until just combined, don’t over mix.
- Stuff the peppers with the meat loaf mixture.
- Place the stuffed peppers on top of the salsa.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- After cooking time is done add a 1/4 cup of cheese to each pepper. Add the lid back on the slow cooker and let the cheese melt, it will only take a few minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
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I ❤️ it
These were amazing! I made these to swap out for our regular taco night. However, I found myself debating if I should just mix everything up and put it in a taco shell. My family will definitely be craving these again soon. YUM!
i dont have minute rice..what other rice can i use
You can cook the rice first, I think that would work best. Cooking raw rice in the slow cooker doesn’t work very well, it gets chalky.
My husband and I loved these! I followed the recipe, except I left off the rice completely to make it lower carb. I was afraid they would have too much liquid that way, but they were wonderful! Leftovers were great, too. Thank you! These will be a go-to recipe now. Very easy!
Could I use Bread crumbs in place of the saltines? If so, how much bread crumbs?
I would start with a 1/4 cup and see if the meat holds together with that amount. I apologize that I don’t have an exact answer without test it out.
Could you use riced caulflower instead of minute rice?
I don’t see why not.
Would this work making it up the night before and cooking the next day?
Yes, it would work great.
It took an additional hour to cook the bell peppers on high. I prefer my bell peppers cooked rather than crunchy.
Thanks for letting us know about the bell peppers.
I made this recipe I hope it comes out delicious cause it looked tasty but I stuck the peppers in a roaster instead cause I only have a 4qt crock pot and I made a lot cause I’m feeding my son myself and my fiancee and my son’s grandparents on his dad’s side. I doubled the recipe is that okay cause how many people are eating them?
I think that would work great. How did you like them?