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Healthy Stuffed Green Peppers
We love Green peppers in our family and they aren’t very expensive right now in the grocery store! This is one of my favorite recipes when I’m craving the pepper! 🙂

Healthy Stuffed Green Peppers Recipe

Weight Watchers Stuffed Green Peppers Recipe - a great way to get your vegetables and protein!
Serving6 people
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 5 cups water
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 6 green bell peppers
  • 1 pound ground turkey
  • ½ onion, diced
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • ½ teaspoon garlic salt
  • 1 cup quick cooking brown rice
  • 1 (15oz) can tomato sauce, divided
  • 1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese

Instructions

  1. In a large pot, boil 5 cups of water with 1/2 tsp salt added.
  2. Cut off the top of each pepper, clean out seeds and membranes and then wash them really well.
  3. Cook peppers in the boiling water for 5 minutes then drain.
  4. In a large skillet, cook and stir ground turkey and onion until onion is tender. Drain off any fat.
  5. Stir in salt, garlic salt, rice and 1 cup (8 ounces) of tomato sauce. Heat through.
  6. Stuff each pepper with meat mixture.
  7. Stand the peppers upright in an ungreased baking dish.
  8. Pour remaining tomato sauce over peppers.
  9. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
  10. Remove from oven, uncover, and top with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
  11. Bake for an additional 15 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 240 kcal · Carbohydrates: 22 g · Protein: 25 g · Fat: 6 g · Saturated Fat: 3 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 56 mg · Sodium: 1705 mg · Potassium: 698 mg · Fiber: 4 g · Sugar: 6 g · Vitamin A: 892 IU · Vitamin C: 101 mg · Calcium: 130 mg · Iron: 3 mg
Cuisine: American
Course: Main Course
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Published: November 14, 2011Updated: April 24, 2024

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Questions & Reviews

  1. Coley says:
    YUM! This is what I am going to make for dinner tonight.
  2. Inside a British Mum's Kitchen says:
    sounds fantastic - lovely flavors and looking forward to trying these :)
    mary x
  3. Matt @ FaveDiets says:
    I love it
  4. kelli says:
    is this points "PLUS" or an old ww recipe?
  5. kelli says:
    is this points "PLUS" or an old ww recipe?
  6. Leah says:
    Do u cook the rice before you mix it in or do you mix it in raw? Can't wait to try this! It's on the menu for dinner tonight :)
  7. karen lincoln says:
    Iwas wondering the same tthing so I just went through the points and came up with 10pts for 1 pepper. The sauce is 0 the pepper 0 the turkey 3 snd the rice the chesse2 With a small side salad thats a meal.
  8. Josie says:
    Trying hard to stick with my family's favorite meals, while altering for my WW plan, while not losing flavor...you get the picture. Stuffed peppers are a huge hit in our house, and these were actually declared the best recipe yet. Coming from my husband and 4 teenagers, that's high praise. Thank you Six Sisters' Stuff!
  9. Donna says:
    I used this recipe and used Morningstar Grillers Crumbles instead of meat and it was delish
  10. Holly says:
    Can you freeze these?
  11. holly coast says:
    Yes this looks so good. Could you please tell me how many point there are each pepper.Also are they ww freestyle points.
  12. Alana says:
    I just made them and used 99% fat free turkey and mine came out to 3 points per stuffed peppers I and using freestyle or blue as it's called now
  13. Alana says:
    I didn't cook my rice and it turned out great
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