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Vegan Stuffed Pepper Recipe
You won't miss the cheese or meat in these hearty vegan stuffed peppers! A medley of colorful bell peppers are stuffed with a savory bean filling that's seasoned with aromatic spices like oregano, cumin, and smoked paprika. Enjoy these peppers as a filling main or side dish!
Prep
20 min
Cook
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Total
1h
Serves
2
Instructions
- 01
In a medium saucepan, sauté onion, garlic, and jalapeño in olive oil. Add cumin, oregano, smoked paprika, and tomato paste.
- 02
In a separate bowl, make a slurry with the cold water and cornstarch, and add to the filling and stir.
- 03
Add white beans, cilantro, and salt. Bring to a boil, let simmer for 1 minute.
- 04
Wash the peppers and cut them either lengthwise or crosswise according to your preference. Cut out the core and deseed the peppers.
- 05
Grease a baking dish and arrange the peppers in the dish. Fill each half pepper with 1/4 of the filling.
- 06
Bake for 30-45 minutes. Garnish with your favorite toppings and serve.
Variations & swaps
Recipe Variations to Try
- Change up the filling: Replace the white beans with black beans, pinto beans, cooked rice either white or brown rice, cauliflower rice, cooked lentils, veggie crumbles, cooked quinoa, or a combination.
- Add vegan cheese: Consider adding some vegan cheese on top before baking or add some nutritional yeast flakes to the filling for a cheesier taste
- Use another variety of peppers: Experiment with different pepper varieties. Sweet peppers, sweet bell peppers, poblano peppers, or even mini peppers will work beautifully in this easy vegan stuffed peppers recipe.
- Italian-inspired: Make a filling with white beans, chopped tomatoes, basil, tomato sauce, artichokes, pine nuts, red pepper flakes, capers, and olives.
- Indian-inspired: Use cumin, curry, cilantro, ginger, coriander, cinnamon, and lentils for the filling.
- Middle Eastern-inspired: Add lemon, dill, lentils, za’atar, olives, cumin, coriander, sesame, and couscous to your peppers.
- Chinese-inspired: Use ingredients like cabbage, garlic, ginger, scallion, peanuts, sesame oil, tofu, soy sauce, or Braggs Liquid Aminos.
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