Stuffed Green Pepper Soup is a quick and delicious meal perfect for fall and winter.
Soup for dinner is usually a weekly occurrence at our house during the fall and winter. It is a great meal because it is typically a meal itself. You can add bread or salad, but you don’t have to.
I also like making soup because it is usually a quick and easy or crock pot-friendly meal. I love both of these for busy days.
Several in my family love stuffed peppers, but I don’t make them very often, because it takes quite a few peppers to serve my whole family.
Stuffed green pepper soup, though, is a great way to get the flavors of stuffed peppers while only using a couple of peppers. It is also a lot less work than stuffed peppers.
I have seen several recipes for stuffed pepper soup, but mine is a little different. Most recipes call for cooked rice, which works great for leftovers. I love to find different ways to use cooked rice.
However, for stuffed pepper soup, I prefer to cook the rice in the soup rather than add it already cooked. This allows the rice to pick up the soup’s flavor while it is cooking and gives you a much more flavorful result.
If you have some leftover rice or don’t want to cook the rice in the soup, just decrease the liquid slightly and add cooked rice instead of uncooked rice. But I think you will like it if you try cooking the rice in the soup.
Ingredients
- ground beef, ground chicken, or ground turkey
- onion
- green, red or yellow bell peppers
- beef broth or water and beef bouillon
- canned diced tomatoes
- tomato sauce
- rice
- chili powder
- paprika
- salt
Stuffed Pepper Soup
All the flavors of stuffed pepper in one delicious soup.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef, ground chicken, or ground turkey
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 green peppers, red or yellow work as well
- 4 cups beef broth ( or 4 cups water and beef bouillon), use gluten free for gf version
- 1- 28 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 - 8 ounce can tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup rice, uncooked
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
Instructions
- In a large pot cook meat, onions, and peppers until meat is done and onions and peppers are tender. Drain off any fat.
- Add remaining ingredients and stir well.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and cook for 25-30 minutes or until rice is tender. Stir occasionally while cooking.
- This soup is great leftover, but it does thicken up as the rice absorbs the liquid.
- If you don't have fresh green peppers you can add a couple of cups of frozen green peppers or a green pepper onion mix.
Notes
To make this gluten free be sure to read labels to make sure that your ingredients are gluten free.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 260Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 73mgSodium: 912mgCarbohydrates: 11gFiber: 3gSugar: 5gProtein: 24g
Originally published November 2014. Updated February 2025.
I thought this looked good when I first saw it and am so glad I tried it! I made a few changes, based on my family’s tastes: I added three cloves of garlic, didn’t drain the fat, and doubled the spices. These were good choices for us. We found it needed more salt, but we’re sodium crazy here. On the advice of my sister, I doubled the rice. That wasn’t a good choice. It went from soup to a rice stew. It’s not bad, at all, but when you’re expecting soup it’s a bit disconcerting. Overall, it’s something we’re going to do again. I absolutely LOVE that I can give leftovers in my sister’s lunch, which isn’t always the easiest thing to do. So, thank you! This was delicious (I was eating as I typed), easy (six things to wash! Six!), and the family loved it. I’m definitely going to be making more of your recipes after this.
I am so glad that you enjoyed it. And thanks so much for letting me know. I will have to try more garlic next time. I bet it adds a lot of extra flavor to it.
Hi Lynn. This looks great and I can’t wait to make it. Have you ever made it with brown rice instead of white rice, and if so, does the cooking time need to be adjusted? I assume you are using long grain rice and not instant rice, correct?
I don’t use a lot of brown rice because my husband doesn’t like it. I think you could easily use it in this recipe though. I do use regular long grain rice, so I think regular brown rice would work fine. I think you would need to increase the liquid and the cooking time. I am guessing you would need to double the cooking time. I don’t remember how much more water brown rice needs, but I think it would need to be about 1 cup more. I hope that helps.