Roasted bell peppers stuffed with quinoa and fresh cilantro lime salsa. Salsa stuffed peppers will be your new favorite meatless Monday meal! Vegetarian, dairy-free & gluten-free.
I’ve made stuffed peppers quite a few times, each time I try to use a different filling. Sometimes, I use ground beef or turkey but I like to slip vegetarian meals in as much as possible. Quinoa is a really easy substitute that’s good for you and delicious! My fiance scarfed these salsa stuffed peppers up super quick! He loved the salsa flavor!
Quinoa is a really easy substitute that’s good for you and delicious! My fiance scarfed these salsa stuffed peppers up super quick! He loved the salsa flavor!
Last week, I made wayyy too much of my favorite cilantro lime salsa. How can you have too much salsa you ask? I know, I didn’t think it was possible, but it is. I ran out of chips and didn’t feel like making another trip to the store to get more. I swear I live at the grocery store as it is. So, I was racking my brain for ideas about what to use the extra salsa for and I came up with salsa stuffed peppers! Super easy and definitely a new family favorite.
Salsa Stuffed Peppers Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Wash the peppers, remove the seeds and cut off the tops. Drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder. I removed the stems and put the tops into the dish with the peppers and baked them for 20 minutes.
While the peppers are baking, rinse and cook the quinoa according to the package instructions. When the quinoa is done, add the salsa and stir to combine. I also diced the tops of the peppers into small pieces and added it to the quinoa mix. You can use a jar of salsa if you don’t have time to make fresh salsa. (Even though my favorite salsa is super easy and delish, just sayin!)
The quinoa soaks up all that juicy salsa and makes the perfect filling for the peppers that are baking in the oven. Quinoa by itself can be kind of bland, adding the flavor loaded salsa takes it to the next level! Once the peppers are done, spoon the quinoa mixture into the peppers.
- 4 large bell peppers
- 1 cup quinoa
- 1½ cup salsa for filling
- ½ cup salsa for topping
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- Sea salt & pepper to taste
- 1 Tbsp cilantro for garnish
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Wash peppers, remove seeds and stems. Put peppers and tops into baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Bake for 20 minutes or until soft.
- While the peppers are baking, rinse and cook the quinoa according to package instructions.
- When the quinoa is done, add the salsa ½ cup at a time until you reach desired consistency. (I used 1½ cups of salsa) Dice the pepper tops and add to the quinoa mix.
- Remove peppers from oven & fill with the quinoa salsa. Top with a spoonful of salsa and a sprinkle of cilantro before serving.
- Optional - Sprinkle shredded cheese over each pepper and put back into the oven for 1-2 minutes until cheese is melted.
- Serve with slices of lime for garnish.
I saved a little bit of salsa for topping each pepper with right before I served them. You can add a sprinkle of shredded cheese too! Enjoy!
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Okay, these look AMAZING! My husband and I really love using Quinoa and I love that this recipe uses it! And your photos are beautiful! Definitely pinning for later!
These look delicious. I grew up eating my Grandma’s stuffed capsicum.. only problem is that they take ages to cook… these might just appear on my table sometime soon!
I LOVE stuffed peppers! This version sounds fantastic – and I love all the great colours in your photos 🙂 Pinning for later
These looks absolutely mouthwatering! I have never made stuffed peppers, but I do love eating them haha We have plenty of quinoa in our house so I will have to make these this week.
Linh
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Thank you, Linh! I hope you like them as much as my family does!