Looking to kick the heat up a notch in your menu? Try these roasted paleo stuffed peppers. Filled with seasoned ground turkey, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cilantro.
Brenton and I are completely overwhelmed by all your love from our baby batz announcement! There have been so many people praying for this bebe and I’d love to ask you to keep praying for our health and growth. I’m a firm believer prayer is exactly what’s needed in every circumstance, good and bad. So yes… pray away folks!
A couple life updates for you guys. We are still in Oklahoma. We will be here until around Thanksgiving time then heading up to our old stomping grounds on the East Coast. I’m from Long Island and the fly boy of from Pennsylvania so moving to New Jersey is a happy middle ground. We have family all over the area… actually they are all within a 3 hour radius of where we will be living so that is going to be magical! Not to mention we are going to be able to attend Penn State games for the 2019 season!! With a baby attached to me but still its going to be AWESOME!
Onto the recipe…
It has been a HOT minute since I’ve shared a recipe with you! So sorry about that… these Paleo stuffed peppers will not disappoint. They are super clean, super healthy and super delicious!
Paleo stuffed peppers have been on my rotation just about every week this summer. Peppers are fresh and juicy and just freaking delicious if you ask me. Plus you can stuff them with just about anything! I tend to gravitate toward ground meat, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cilantro because they are all paleo friendly and I digest that better. But this recipe is so flexible that if you don’t eat paleo then you can add quinoa, grits, cheese, rice, beans… the options for stuffed peppers are endless! But usually stuffed peppers are bell peppers, right? Well, enter in the stuffed poblano pepper!
So you’re probably thinking, isn’t the poblano pepper hot!?! The poblano pepper is a fairly mild pepper, ranking somewhere between the banana pepper and jalapeno on the Scoville heat scale. So if you are super sensitive to capsaicin you might just want to stuff a green or red pepper but if you can handle a teeny bit of heat this recipe is for you!
ONE poblano pepper is packed with, get this:
- 70% RDA Vitamin A
- 20% RDA Vitamin B2
- 10% RDA Iron AND B6
And because they are packed with all these goodie nutrients they are great at boosting your immune system, aiding in weight loss, and even fighting cancer.
Poblano Peppers are rockstars!
Spicy little rockstars but rockstars none-the-less.
Less spicy tip: Remove ALL the seeds and white vein in the middle and wash it out…
Because actually these poblanos I used for these photos were on the a bit too spicy side for my man. Like a Thai restaurant spicy 2.5 stars… They kind of made us tear up a bit. I must have left in some seeds and veins. Oppps. Don’t make that same mistake!
Serve these paleo stuffed peppers covered in my magical multipurpose Cilantro Green Onion Sauce! <— just yum! You won’t regret this delicious decision.
Okay my spicy people… get your hot booty in the kitchen and get started on this super easy, super clean paleo stuffed pepper recipe! Let us know how it goes by leaving a comment below. Also, take a photo and tag us on Instagram or in your Insta-story @herheartandtable, so we can check it out! I love seeing when you guys make recipes from the blog!
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| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 40 minutes |
| Servings |
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- 8 poblano peppers seeded and deveined
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1 large sweet potato peeled and cubed into bite size pieces
- 2 vine ripe tomatoes chopped into bite size pieces
- 2 tbsp cilantro chopped
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/8 tsp cayenne
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 2 clove garlic minced
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare , sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cilantro. Prepare poblano peppers by washing, removing seeds, and deveining. Make a slit in the skin lengthwise on one side for stuffing.
- Heat coconut oil in a pan over medium heat. Add sweet potatoes and cover pan. Cook until soft and charred tossing occasionally.
- Add raw turkey meat, raw garlic and spices into pan with sweet potatoes. Cook until no longer pink.
- Turn off stove and add tomato, and cilantro.
- Stuff peppers with the turkey/sweet potato filling to your desired fullness. Bake on a unlined, non-greased baking sheet for 25-30 minutes (this will char the outside of the pepper more!). To test doneness of pepper take a paring knife and pierce the skin of the pepper. Should be easy!
*Don't want to use pepper as spicy as a poblano? Use a bell pepper to be safe!
**Enjoy with a big glass of milk and tissue if you were as unlucky as we were with our poblano selection.
Taylor Laudino
Many things:
1)SO happy for you all about Baby Batz! You are going to be an incredible mother!!!
2)These peppers look great and are getting added onto my recipe list ASAP!
3)Where in NJ are you all moving to? That’s where Todd is from, so we are up there a few times a year. Would love to catch up if we are close!!
herheartandtable
Hey you! Thank you soooo much <3 We are beyond blown away with this opportunity to grow our family. Let me know how your peppers come out! We'll be in South Jersey I think. Still house hunting but near Cherry Hill probably. I'd LOVE to catch up when we are back on the East Coast! 😀