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About Our Burrito Bowl Stuffed Peppers

We are no strangers to making burrito bowls. We make them every week, or every other week at minimum. They are easy to make if you are celiac because you can add in just about anything you want, and you can leave out things you don’t want pretty easily. They are also very cost-effective and relatively healthy, especially because you don’t have to include too many gluten-free substitutes, such as tortillas (which can be expensive if you’re also soy- and corn-free).

During our many, many kitchen experiments, we thought we’d make our burrito bowls more interesting by turning them into stuffed peppers. We made our usual fix-ins, like rice, beans, chicken, lactose-free cheese, and grilled onions, and then cooked them inside of bell peppers (as our “bowls”).

We loved them so much that we thought we’d share them with you! Isabelle actually made these in a cooking demo for her department where she is doing her Ph.D and has since altered the recipe. She accidentally left out the lime and cilantro she usually includes in the rice, but realized that it actually works better without these ingredients when made into a stuffed pepper.

Vegan Options for Burrito Bowl Stuffed Peppers

While we make our burrito bowl stuffed peppers with chicken and lactose-free cheese (like manchego or goat’s milk cheddar), you can easily change a few things around to make these peppers vegan.

For the protein, you can either sub in a vegan meat substitute or just include extra black beans, or even lentils. As for the cheese, you can use a vegan cheese substitute and it should work just fine.

Other Stuffed Pepper Add-Ins

While we have to avoid certain burrito bowl toppings because of Isabelle’s allergies, you could certainly include things like corn, sour cream (after the peppers are cooked), or even guac or avocado (again after the peppers are cooked).

We don’t tend to need a side with these peppers because they are quite a full meal, but you could include grain-free tortilla chips if you’d like to.

Using Leftovers to Make Stuffed Peppers

Another option with these is to make these peppers out of existing burrito bowl ingredients that you’ve cooked (or had from takeout) and put them into the stuffed peppers. We would still recommend reheating everything in a pan together and adding some spices to bring everything together (and to ensure that the filling is hot when the stuffed peppers come out of the oven).

How to Reheat Stuffed Peppers

When reheating these peppers the next day, it can really help to cut them in half (vertically) to make sure that they are heated all the way through. We usually rehat them at 350°F covered in foil, adding cheese to the open halves for the final 5 minutes or so.

A quicker method (other than the microwave) would be to turn these stuffed peppers into fried rice. You would reheat the filling in a pan, just like you cooked it, but you would also cut up the peppers and thrown them into the pan. Add an egg (scrambled or over medium) to turn it into a hearty breakfast.

How to Make Burrito Bowl Stuffed Peppers

Conclusions About Burrito Bowl Stuffed Peppers

We love reworking one of our favorite recipes (burrito bowls) into these stuffed peppers! Not only do they look exciting and feel like a nice change, but they’re a good way to bump up our veggie intake. They are pretty much foolproof because they can be cooked, reheated, and you can fill them with almost any topping.

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