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Learn How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers with Classic Keto Bolognese Sauce containing Ground Beef. This Low Carb, Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, and perfect Rainbow Keto Meal for Diabetics gives you a great option for your Meal Prep or Grilling evening. 

Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers inside a light blue baking casserole
How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers

Stuffed Peppers Without Rice

This is our second Keto Stuffed Peppers recipe on the blog and this time I have gone the American was omitting rice fully. Our Keto Stuffed Peppers with Rice and Tomato Sauce is worth looking into as well, if you are into experiencing a bit further.

Low Carb High Fat Recipes

This awesome mixture of flavors comes in handy if you are looking for that LCHF meal to fill up your Macros. 

Together with Bolognese Sauce and our Stuffed Tomatoes, this meal is just the perfect addition to a Low Carb High-Fat needs. 

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With 27g of fat and 16g of protein per serving you will in no time fill up your calculations.

And if in need of some additional Fat, just add a few pieces of our Cheesecake Fat Bombs as a dessert. 

Make-Ahead Keto Recipes

We all love Meal Plans or Meal Preps. 

Those Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers are one of them. You can easily prepare them beforehand and store them in the fridge or freezer. Whenever needed, they are done in no time. 

Use them for your next Party or Grilling evening and you will be sure to impress everyone around. 

Not only with its taste, but also the beautiful rainbow look. Just look at them. As we all know that we should always mix the colors in our food to get the most nutrients from all. 

Keto Peppers Recipes

I have already made our European Style of Keto Stuffed Peppers with Shirataki Rice at the beginning of blogging.

This recipe is my favorite, and my mum till now makes it every time we visit. In that particular recipe, I used Shirataki Rice as a Rice Replacement and Banana or Anaheim peppers, which are light green in color and have much thinner skin. 

I use those particular types of peppers also in our Hungarian Lecso, which is made all around central Europe mostly during the summertime when all of the peppers and tomatoes are in our gardens. 

And because this is really one of my favorite recipes, I have decided to go with Bell Pepper Option and use those beautiful Rainbow Colors for our dish. 

Keto Stuffed Peppers baked and served
Low Carb Stuffed peppers

Bell Peppers

Bell Peppers are a tiny bit higher in carbs if you compare them to the Banana or Anaheim Peppers, I have mentioned above. 

But they are a perfect addition to our healthy lifestyle and as long as we can control our portions, can be a great addition to Keto Diet as well. 

They are perfect served fresh added to our salads, but also very popular during grilling season. Those bright colors you get from them outshine any other dish. 

All are rich in vitamin C and you would not believe it. They contain much more Vitamin C than oranges do. Can you imagine?

Rainbow Bell Peppers

Each Color is special on its own. 

While Green Bell Peppers are lower in carbs, Red Peppers has got an enormous amount of Vitamin A. 

And therefore we should not pick the colors, but combine them all together. Not only for the Rainbow visual effect. 

How Many Carbs are in Bell Peppers?

As we already know, each color of the Bell Pepper has its own unique grams of carbohydrate.
1 Cup of Green Pepper has got 4.3 grams of Carbs. 
1 Cup of Yellow and Red Pepper has 5.7 grams of carbs. 

Which Bell Pepper is lowest in carbs?

Green Bell peppers with their 4.3 grams of carbs in a Cup has got the least amount of carbs from all of the Bell Peppers colors. 

How many carbs are in Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers?

With our calculations and having 6 portions from the whole recipe, you get 5 carbs per serving with 2 grams of fiber, which leads us to the 3g of net carbs per meal. 

Filling Ideas for Keto Stuffed Peppers

Even though our Recipe is the best and easiest Low Carb Stuffed Bell Peppers Recipe, you can always alternate with various fillings.

Either pick one of those or mix & match whatever you have at home or whatever you like and prefer. 

  • Ground Chicken
  • Ground Turkey
  • Ground Pork
  • Pulled Pork
  • Buffalo Chicken
  • Philly Cheesesteak
  • Tuna
  • Pesto
  • Cauliflower Rice
  • Shirataki Rice
  • Green Chili
  • Zucchini 
  • Italian Spices
  • Taco
  • Diced Tomatoes
  • Chopped Nuts – walnuts
  • Olives
  • Salsa
  • Marinara Sauce
  • Ricotta and much more

You can pick and choose your own filling. You can even make Stuffed Peppers without rice or Meat.

Or Stuffed peppers without rice and Tomato Sauce, where you just use one of my suggestions above.

Easy Keto-Friendly Stuffed peppers served on a blue plates
Keto Stuffed Peppers

How to Make Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers?

Kitchen Gadgets needed:

Ingredients needed:

  • Bell Peppers
  • Minced Beef
  • Diced Bacon
  • Diced Fresh Celery
  • Onion
  • Garlic Cloves
  • Tomato Sauce
  • Heavy Cream
  • Fresh Oregano
  • Fresh Marjoram
  • Grated Cheese

*Exact measurements are listed in the recipe card below.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON EASY KETO STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

First Step: Ingredients for Stuffed Bell Peppers

Prepare 3 various colors of Bell peppers for that beautiful Rainbow Colors.

With regards to the ingredients for Bolognesses Sauce with Keto Ground beef, try and dice all of the ingredients into small pieces.

Herbs should be chopped as small as possible. It is great to keep some of the chopped herbs for the end, as a decoration on already baked stuffed bell Peppers. That gives them a perfect vibrant green additional color. 

Easy Keto-Friendly Stuffed peppers ingredients needed
Keto Bolognese Stuffed Peppers

Second Step: Cook Keto Bolognese Sauce

Start with your onion and garlic. Place them into a cooking pot sprinkled with olive oil and caramelize for a few minutes. 

Once caramelized, add bacon and minced meat, mix and cook for 15 minutes. 

Add diced fresh celery, herbs, salt & pepper, and mix and cook over medium heat for another 10 minutes.

As of last add tomato sauce and heavy cream and fully combine.

More detailed step-by-step instructions about making our Keto Bolognese Sauce can be found on its special post with various tips, tricks, and ideas. 

If you can manage to make bolognese sauce the night before, the best. 

Overnight, the flavors of the sauce combine, and the whole sauce thickens fully, which is the best for filling your veggies. 

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Preparing Authentic Bolognese Sauce

Third Step: Cover and Cook Keto Bolognese Sauce

Cover with the lid and cook for approximately 40 minutes at a medium temperature.

Authentic Keto Bolognese Sauce cooking the sauce
How to make Bolognese

Fourth Step: Prepare Baking Dish and Cut Peppers

Choose the baking dish, where all of the Bell Peppers can stand easily next to each other.

Cut top of each of the Bell pepper and place on the side to use later. 

Clean all of the insides from Bell pepper and scoop out all of the seeds.

Low Carb Stuffed peppers cutting the tops
Easy Keto-Friendly Stuffed peppers

Fifth Step: Fill Bolognese Sauce

Fill Each of the bell pepper with Bolognese sauce up to the top.

Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers scooping in the sauce
Low Carb Stuffed peppers

Sixth Step: Garnish with Cheese or other Toppings

Top it up with grated cheese of your choice, be it parmesan cheese, any hard cheese, or mozzarella. 

You can also use other toppings such as bacon bits, jalapeno, onion, or seasonings you prefer. 

How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers filling up with bolognese sauce
Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers

Seventh Step: Cover and Bake

Once all of the toppings are done, cover with the precut tops of the Bell Pepper.

Bake in the oven at 200C or 400F for approximately 40 minutes.

Easy Keto-Friendly Stuffed peppers preparing for baking
How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers

Tips and Tricks:

  • Nutritional Info – as you see, I have made this recipe with 3 big Bell Peppers in various colors, but calculated as 6 portions after we had this wonderful dish for dinner and were not able to consume a whole pepper each.
  • Halfing the Peppers – to cut the peppers in half is best if you let them cool as the mixture of bolognese will thicken. You can of course half the peppers before baking and fill them that way. 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Low Carb Stuffed peppers in a baking dish
Easy Keto-Friendly Stuffed peppers

Can you bake Easy Low Carb Stuffed Bell Peppers in an Air Fryer?

With the exact steps, place finished stuffed bell peppers into the Air Fryer rack and cook for approximately 20 minutes. 

Can you make Keto Stuffed Peppers with Rice?

There are various Keto Stuffed Peppers recipes and one of them is our Keto Stuffed Pepper with Rice and tomato sauce, which is the European way I have grown up with.

How do you store Stuffed Bell Peppers?

Store them in the fridge for up to 3-4 days. Anything longer I would suggest freezing.

Can you freeze Stuffed Bell Peppers?

You certainly can. Just place them individually into the glass container and freeze.

Freezing them individually will make it much easier later on when you are having Meal Plans or Meal Preps days. 

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Keto Bolognese Stuffed Peppers baked in a small dish
Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers

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Yield: 6

How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers

Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers inside a light blue baking casserole

Learn How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers with Classic Keto Bolognese Sauce containing Ground Beef. This Low Carb, Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, and perfect Rainbow Keto Meal for Diabetics gives you a great option for your Meal Prep or Grilling evening.

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 Bell Peppers Various Colors
  • 300 grams (1 Cup) Minced Beef
  • 100 grams (1/2 Cup) Diced Bacon
  • 1/2 Cup (2 Stems) Diced Fresh Celery
  • 25 grams (1 small) Onion
  • 2 Garlic Cloves
  • 250 grams (1/3 Cup) Tomato Sauce
  • 115 grams (1/2 Cup) Heavy Cream
  • 1 Tablespoon Fresh Oregano

Instructions

    1. Prepare 3 various colors of Bell peppers for that beautiful Rainbow Colors.
    2. With regards to the ingredients for Bolognesses Sauce with Keto Ground beef, try and dice all of the ingredients into small pieces.
    3. Cook Keto Bolognese Sauce. Start with your onion and garlic. Place them into a cooking pot sprinkled with olive oil and caramelize for a few minutes.
    4. Once caramelized, add bacon and minced meat, mix and cook for 15 minutes.
    5. Add diced fresh celery, herbs, salt & pepper, and mix and cook over medium heat for another 10 minutes.
    6. As of last add tomato sauce and heavy cream and fully combine.
    7. Cover with the lid and cook for approximately 40 minutes at a medium temperature.
    8. Prepare Baking Dish and Cut Peppers
    9. Cut top of each of the Bell pepper and place on the side to use later.
    10. Clean all of the insides from Bell pepper and scoop out all of the seeds.
    11. Fill Each of the bell pepper with Bolognese sauce up to the top.
    12. Top it up with grated cheese of your choice, be it parmesan cheese, any hard cheese, or mozzarella.
    13. Once all of the toppings are done, cover with the precut tops of the Bell Pepper.
    14. Bake in the oven at 200C or 400F for approximately 40 minutes.

Notes

Nutritional Info - as you see, I have made this recipe with 3 big Bell Peppers in various colors, but calculated as 6 portions after we had this wonderful dish for dinner and were not able to consume a whole pepper each.


Halfing the Peppers - to cut the peppers in half is best if you let them cool as the mixture of bolognese will thicken. You can of course half the peppers before baking and fill them that way.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

6

Serving Size

1

Amount Per Serving Calories 316Total Fat 27gCarbohydrates 5gFiber 2gProtein 16g

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By Zuzana Paar on July 24th, 2021
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2 Comments on “How To Make Easy Keto Stuffed Bell Peppers”

  1. Would like to see more complete nutritional value including cholesterol, sodium, potassium,trans fat, calcium, Vitamin D , Dietary fiber and sugar.

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    • I use Myfitnesspal for calculations: Cholesterol: 76mg, Sodium: 1163mg, Potassium: 245 mg, Trans Fat: 0g, Calcium: 5%, Vit D:0, Dietary Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 5g.

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