A few weeks ago, my friend, Dianne, mentioned a recipe for Stuffed Pepper Soup. Before the freeze, I picked all the peppers left in the garden, though there weren’t that many left, and had intended to make it. Then a friend picked all her peppers and gave them to me so I knew it was time to make Stuffed Pepper Soup.
Chopping Onions
I figured it would take about as long to chop them by hand and I’d get them more uniformly chopped than if I used the food chopper. Even Vince got in on the action, chopping onions. It calls for 6 cups of chopped onions and 8 cups of chopped bell peppers.
Stuffed Pepper Soup
Exactly as the recipe said, I got 7 quarts of soup from one batch. I used ground elk in this batch. I’ll make another batch today and use ground beef
Obviously, I also made bread. Same recipe I always use and it would absolutely not brown and when I toasted it, it came out so crunchy. Not sure what was up with that but it was still good.
Dinner
For dinner last night, we had Stuffed Pepper Soup over rice and grilled cheese sandwiches with the crazy bread. Vince declared the stuffed pepper soup to be his new favorite meal. Seriously, it is so much easier than making stuffed peppers and just as tasty . . if not more so!
Dianne S. says
So happy you liked it, I thought you might. It’s our favorite here too! I don’t remember how much I canned but I’m sure it’s no where near enough! Darrell loves the soup and when I ask what type of soup, it’s always this soup!
Libby in TN says
I was trying to figure out how you would get stuffed peppers to hold together in a soup! LOL — till I read the recipe ….
JudyL says
Just regular bell peppers – any color you choose, or any sweet type green pepper.
Cynthia says
What peppers do you use? Up in mn we call them green, yellow, red and orange. We also have small red, orange and yellow.
Diana in RR,TX says
Dad and I would probably like it, but not Galen. Actually they don’t like him–he and bell peppers do not get along! By the way, I like Vince’s shirt!
Quilterbee says
I’ve had this soup made from scratch at a coney island restaurant. On Paula Deen’s show two girls made unstuffed cabbage soup and it looked so good. You can probably find the recipe online.
Sherrill says
I really like my stuffed peppers and they’re not hard or time-consuming to make so I’ll probably stick with those. I tried a soup one time (prob not same as yours) and I liked the actual peppers better.
JudyL says
The only problem with making the regular stuffed peppers happen when there are 40+ peppers on the vines and need to be picked before a freeze. I have successfully frozen stuffed peppers but with that many, (1) it takes up a lot of freezer space and (2) frozen doesn’t hold up as well long term as will canned.
The exact same ingredients go into the soup as in the stuffed peppers so my soup tasted exactly like my stuffed peppers – only much easier to make now that all I have to do is open a jar, heat it and serve it over rice.
CindyM says
I make both a stuffed pepper soup and a stuffed cabbage soup and a stuffed cabbage casserole that are all at least as tasty as the real thing and about 25% of the work. Of course I can eat soup every day of the year, so anything made into soup rocks my world! Cindy
Janna says
I wonder if I can reduce the recipe enough to just make a batch??