If you enjoy making stuffed peppers, you'll really like these easy to make Sausage Stuffed Peppers. They are delicious, cook much faster vs making traditional stuffed peppers and they are easily customizable.
Choose to make these Sausage Stuffed Peppers as bite-sized using mini pepper rings or full size using full size peppers. Cook stovetop in a skillet or in an air fryer
The first time I made these fun and tasty pepper rings, I was feeding a gaggle of tween girlies that were hanging out. You know how that goes, picky eaters. I thought what can I make them for dinner and boom! I though something cute and bite sized, I bet at least they'll try it.
So that's what I did. I actually had a bag of pre-sliced pepper rings, so I grabbed some chicken sausage, removed the casing and stuffed each pepper ring.
These bite sized stuffed peppers were a hit with all of the girlies. One mom even reached out to me and said she could never get her daughter to eat meat and wanted to know what I made that her daughter enjoyed, lol! Winning!
You can slice full sized peppers, using whichever color you most enjoy or multiple colors.
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Did You Know?
Bell peppers change their color as they ripen. They change color through various their stages. Green peppers are basically and unripe pepper. As they continue to mature, depending on the variety of bell pepper, they turn yellow, orange, or red. With red being the sweetest. Each color has its own distinct flavor difference.
Ingredients
- fresh full size peppers or mini peppers
- chicken sausage
- avocado or olive oil
- salt and pepper
Variations
- Use chicken sausage either plain, with kale, spinach, cheese or your favorite.
- Use sweet or hot Italian sausage or whatever flavor you most enjoy.
- Change it to beef and use a your meatloaf mixture (find my meatloaf recipe here).
Tips
- Really stuff the pepper rings, compressing hard as you do (like packing a snowball). As the meat cooks, it shrinks.
- Its find to leave the inner parts of the pepper, it gives the meat something else to hold on to.
- For extra flavor, toss rings gently in a small bit of seasoned avocado or olive oil.
- Straight up ground beef may not adhere to the peppers, a meatloaf or meatball mixture works best if using beef.
Storage
- Store in a sealed container, in an aluminum foil packet or small baggie. Reheat when ready to eat or enjoy at room temperature. I personally prefer my leftover poultry, beef and pork cold.
- These little bites of veggie and lean protein are perfect for kids lunchboxes as well. I have packed them over the years alongside an icepack.
These sausage stuffed peppers are easy to cook up. Simply removed the casing from your chosen sausage, press the right amount into each pepper slice and cooked them through. Easy!
I cooked up an army of them. These are good hot or at room temperature, which makes them perfect for a lunchbox too!
This is a great recipe for kids to help make!
These Easy Sausage Stuffed Pepper Rings make a perfect recipe for little hands to help you cook. Just remind kids when touching raw chicken to always be careful of what they touch and to wash their hands thoroughly with warm soapy water immediately following every touch of the chicken.
Getting your kids into the kitchen as often as possible, builds confidence AND makes them healthier eaters. They will always at least try what they help make or make independently. Plus, people who can cook make healthier choices. Give your kids the gift of one of life's most important skills and let them, spread their wings in the kitchen early and often.
I hope you enjoy making and eating these stuffed pepper rings! XO Colleen
Recipe originally posted August, 2016. Updated June, 2025.
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Colleen Kennedy is the author of 3 cookbooks and has appeared on QVC and other shows inspiring home cooks of all levels. She has a popular TikTok channel @ColleensCooking with hundreds of short recipe videos. Colleen lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and kids, she started the food blog, Soufflé Bombay in 2009. Read more about her here.
Sausage Stuffed Pepper Rings
Ingredients
- 1 pound Chicken Sausage whatever flavor you enjoy or use pork sausage.
- 1 package Prepackaged Mini peppers, pre sliced peppers or Farms or small whole peppers for you to slice down
- 1 TBS avocado or olive oil, more as needed
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Remove casings from your sausage and break sausage apart with your clean hands, a spoon or a spatula.
- Slice down your peppers into ¼ inch thick rings or use pre-sliced pepper rings.
- Stuff your peppers with the chicken. Press firmly to mold the chicken sausage into each ring. Get as much as you can into each ring, packing it down like making a snowball.
- Heat a small amount of oil (about 1 TBS) in your nonstick pan, add the stuffed peppers and sauté until cooked through, flipping once. Remember, chicken sausage cooks through quicker than pork sausage, be careful to not dry it out.
- Serve or cool, refrigerate and pack in your kids lunches.
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