Easy Instant Pot Stuffed Peppers
Easy Instant Pot Stuffed Peppers
These easy Instant Pot stuffed peppers will be your favorite pressure cooker meal! Classic stuffed peppers with cheesy ground beef and rice, they’re packed with flavor and will bring you back to your childhood! The old fashioned recipe you remember is much quicker in your pressure cooker now!
I thought there had to be a way to make one of our favorite meals in our new pressure cooker and it turned out to be so simple! If you don’t have a handy dandy vegetable steamer we will show you where to get this one that makes it easy peasy to make this and other vegetables in your Instant Pot, and has a nifty and safe way to pull it out when it’s done too!
Have you ever had stuffed peppers before?? Even if you aren’t a huge fan of peppers they serve as a great “bowl” for cooking your mixture, and soften perfectly in just 10 minutes on high pressure.
Easy Instant Pot Stuffed Peppers Recipe
These easy Instant Pot stuffed peppers will be your favorite pressure cooker meal! Green peppers stuffed with cheesy ground beef and rice they're packed with flavor and will bring you back to your childhood! The old fashioned recipe you remember is much quicker in your pressure cooker now!
Ingredients
- 8 bell peppers (if making 4 just half the ingredients below for the filling)
- 1/2 lb ground beef
- 2 c uncooked minute rice
- 2 c water to cook your minute rice
- 1 1/2 c spaghetti sauce
- 1/3 c onion diced
- 1 c mozzarella cheese shredded
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
Instructions
- Add a bit of olive oil. Turn your Instant Pot to saute, normal, and add your ground beef and onions.
- Make your minute rice on the stove. Cook until meat is cooked and onions soften.
- Pour in your spaghetti sauce and rice, stir.
- Turn Instant Pot off and remove pot. Empty contents into separate bowl and wash your pot.
- Return pot into your Instant Pot and pour in 1 1/2 c. water.
- Open your Kitchen deluxe vegetable steamer basket and lower it into your Instant Pot.
- Cut tops off your bell peppers and remove seeds inside.
- Place 4 bell peppers into your steamer basket so they fit snuggly.
- Put a bit of mozzarella cheese into the inside, bottom, of each bell pepper.
- Spoon rice and ground beef mixture into peppers until each one is filled almost to the top.
- Put another bit of mozzarella cheese on the very top of each pepper on top of the rice mixture.
- Close your lid and steam valve and set to manual, pressure, high, for 10 minutes.
- When done move the steam valve just slightly so the steam comes out slowly.
- Use central ring hook to lift vegetable steamer out of your Instant Pot or pressure cooker.
- Enjoy!
Recipe adapted : Easy Instant Pot Stuffed Peppers @ temeculablogs