Hi Friends!
And now for today’s post: As you may have seen on Monday, over the weekend I made a big batch of chili. Even though I froze about 1/3 of the batch, it still always seems like whenever I made chili we end up eating it for days on end.
Here’s a quick way to spice up your leftover chili: Use it to make stuffed peppers!
Here’s what you do. Make a batch of chili.
CLICK HERE for my favorite chili recipe. I made a bigger batch by adding an extra kind of beans and some extra veggies and spices.
Enjoy it for a few days, then add some cooked brown rice or quinoa and a little cheese to the leftovers.
Spoon the mixture into peppers and bake:
Here’s the official recipe:
PrintQuick Tip Thursday: Chili Stuffed Peppers
Extra chili? Don’t stuff yourself; stuff your peppers with the easy Chili Stuffed Pepper recipe!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients
- leftover chili
- cooked brown rice or quinoa
- shredded Mexican cheese
- bell peppers
Instructions
- Add brown rice and a little bit of cheese to your leftover chili.
- Stir to combine.
- Slice the tops off peppers and remove seeds.
- Slice thin layer off the bottom to help them stand up straight.
- Scoop chili mixture into peppers.
- Stand peppers in a glass baking dish.
- Cover with foil and bake at 375 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
Pretty easy right? Serve with some cranberry cornbread muffins. CLICK HERE for the recipe. I made them using applesauce instead of oil this time and left out the salt. Fabulous!
Looking for more ways to use up that leftover chili? I made a batch of homemade mac and cheese- basically the same way i make my Lentil veggie mac & cheese, but without the veggies and lentils…and then topped it with chili.
Also, chili is the new salsa! Didn’t you know?
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
PS. if you want to just skip the whole chili making process and get right to the stuffed peppers, try making stuffed peppers in the crockpot! Easy peasy.
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Hi Lindsay,
pretty nice and easy meal choices. I love chili and I would eat it with basically anything. Loved the mac and cheese with chili suggestion, really simple and delicious.
I love crockpot chili! I still want to check out your lentil chili!! Perfect for fall!
I’ve just (within the last year) started loving stuffed peppers! I love the flavor that the pepper infuses into your already flavorful filling. This looks amazing!
I love stuffed peppers but for some reason I never think to make them! Bookmarking this one to remind myself.
I want this noooow! Those cranberry cornbread muffins are calling my name 😉
ALL DELICIOUS! I love chilli, especially in the fall!
Love this idea! PS – how do you make stuffed peppers in crockpot?!
More delicious recipes to try. I made your enchiladas on Sunday night and 4 out of 6 people devoured them! I call that a huge success in this house.
I’m so excited for chili – what a great list of ideas to reuse it and not get bored of eating it. Now I’m thinking we might need chili for dinner. 🙂
I loooooove stuffed peppers!! YUM!!
great idea!!
That pepper is so pretty!! What great presentation!
What lovely stuffed peppers! I love your chili stuffing, it’s simple, something that can be reused in different capacities as leftovers, and very different than the usual tomato and rice stuffing that I tend to use when making stuffed peppers. Yum! A perfect dinner for fall!