Pizza Stuffed Peppers

These Pizza Stuffed Peppers are my way of combining two of my favorite recipes into one low-carb meal: pizza and stuffed peppers.

My family loves to customize the stuffed peppers with their favorite pizza toppings. Picture all the flavorful possibilities – pepperoni slices, red pepper flakes, garlic powder, black olives, Italian seasoning, anything is possible.

Loving this? I highly recommend you check out my Crustless Pizza Recipe (the meat is the crust!) and this BBQ Chicken Meatzza.

Ingredients in Pizza Stuffed Peppers

• Olive oil
• Italian turkey sausage: If you like a bit more spice, go for hot Italian sausage.
• Marinara: We prefer to look for marinara with lower sodium and less added sugar.
• Bell peppers: green peppers, yellow peppers, orange peppers, red peppers, any color of bell pepper you have will be perfect.
• Water
• Mozzarella cheese
• Optional: Other toppings such as fresh basil, chopped pepperoni, roasted garlic, sea salt, pepper, etc.

How To Make Pizza Stuffed Peppers in the Slow Cooker

1. In a large skillet, cook sausage until browned.
2. Stir in marinara sauce.
3. Cover and cook 5 minutes.
4. Spoon sausage mixture into peppers and pour remaining sauce over peppers.
5. Top with cheese.
6. Place in an even layer in the ninja foodi/slow cooker, add water, and select the high slow cook setting for 1 hour.
7. After your peppers have been slow cooking on high for one hour, if using the Ninja Foodi, set it to air crisp at 325º. Keep an eye on these as it will just take a few minutes to melt the cheese and crisp up the peppers a bit. Feel free to add additional minutes if they aren’t crisping up to your liking. You don’t want to burn the cheese or the peppers.
8. If any you have any remaining leftovers, store in an airtight container and store in refrigerator once they are cooled to room temperature.

How to make Pizza Stuffed Peppers using the Stovetop/Oven

1. In a large skillet, add olive oil and cook sausage until browned.
2. Stir in marinara sauce.
3. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.
4. Place peppers in a baking dish or baking sheet, fill the pepper halves with the sausage mixture, pour remaining sauce over peppers.
5. Top with cheese or any other favorite pizza ingredients if you’d like.
6. Cook at 350* for 30 minutes.

Healthy Eating Plans

The 21 Day Fix

Whole Recipe: 4 red containers, 5 1/2 green containers, 3 blue containers

One serving: 1/2 red container, 2/3 green container, just under 1/2 blue container

You can easily add mushrooms, jalapenos, or any other pizza toppings that you love! If you change it up remember to calculate (or recalculate) to get an accurate tally of your containers for the recipe.

Weight Watchers Points

3 Points when using fat free cheese

More slow cooker recipes

• Healthy Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe
• Crock Pot Pork Carnitas
• Crockpot Stuffed Pepper Soup
• Crock Pot Chicken Fajitas