Light Chipotle Chicken & Rice Stuffed Peppers

Light Chipotle Chicken & Rice Stuffed Peppers are healthy low calorie dinner recipe loaded with lean ground chicken, brown rice, black beans, corn and chipotle salsa and are topped with cheddar cheese and crunchy tortilla chips!

Chicken & Rice Stuffed Peppers

These Chipotle Chicken & Rice Stuffed Peppers are bursting with bold southwest flavors. This light and healthy dinner pairs wonderfully with a salad for a complete dinner the whole family will enjoy.

This Southwest Quinoa Salad would make for a fantastic side dish for a complete and hearty meal with lots of great vegetables. If you are looking for something a little lighter and low carb, I highly recommend this Zucchini & Squash Salad or Burrata Salad.

• Southwest Quinoa Salad
• Zucchini & Squash Salad
• Burrata Salad

Low Calorie Stuffed Peppers

I don’t know about you, but I stuffed myself silly over this holiday weekend with wonderful foods like burgers, chips, potato salad, desserts and more! I did bring my Light creamy grape salad to our family gathering for a lighter low calorie option, but there was just too much goodness to resist. I really could have used some of these Light Chipotle Chicken & Rice Stuffed Peppers in my life!

On the bright side, I got lots of exercise during our Summer Olympics. Whether we were splaying slosh ball on a baseball field, chugging beers at second (that doesn’t negate the running does it?) and sliding into home on a slip-and-slide, or we were fighting to the death over wheel barrel races, we definitely got our fare share of activity and healthy competition in for the weekend. (Ok, I don’t know how healthy our family’s competition is, seeing we are a bit over the top, but we’ll just say it was a healthy ‘dose’ of competition)

Now that the holiday and the given indulgences are behind us, it is time to find some healthy and flavorful dishes to clean up our eating! These Light Chipotle Chicken & Rice Stuffed Peppers are just that. They are loaded with flavor and a surprise crunch from tortilla chips crumbled on top. You wouldn’t even guess they are healthy, but all of the veggies, lean chicken and Greek yogurt make these bad boys the perfect weeknight dinner you can feel good about.

• Light creamy grape salad

How to make Brown Rice and Chicken Stuffed Peppers

To get started, slice your peppers in half lengthwise and roast them for 20 minutes. This allows the pepper to get nice and soft and have sweeter taste. If you skip this step, your peppers will have more crunch and taste more like raw peppers.

While the peppers are baking, saute the onion and ground chicken in a large skillet over medium-high heat. If you don’t already own one, I highly recommend getting a meat chopper. It’s one of the few chicken accessories that I rave about! Cook the onions and chicken with the spices until the chicken is no longer pink.

When the chicken is cooked through add the corn, black beans, cooked brown rice and salsa and stir util it is well combined and heated through.

In a sprayed 9″x13″ pan, arrange the partially baked peppers cut side up. Spoon the meat and rice mixture into the cut peppers and top with a little shredded cheese and tortilla chips. Bake for 20 minutes.

Serve the cooked chicken and brown rice stuffed peppers with fresh cilantro and a dollop of plain Greek yogurt or sour cream. Enjoy!

Healthy Meal Prep Recipe

If you enjoy meal prepping for the week, this Chipotle Chicken Stuffed Pepper recipe is perfect for you! While “enjoy” might be a stretch, we all know how much better we eat when we have delicious and healthy recipes meal prepped for the week.

Prepare all of the ground chicken and rice mixture and arrange the stuffed peppers in a 9×13 pan. Leave off the cheese and chips and cover the pan. Refrigerate up to a few days before serving. When you get home a busy weeknight, pop this dish in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Add the cheese and chips to the top of the stuffed peppers and bake an additional 10 minutes.

To meal prep these stuffed peppers, it requires 30 minutes of bake time as opposed to 20 to warm everything back up. Be sure to check out some of our other great meal prep recipes as well!

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More amazing stuffed pepper recipes!

• Mediterranean Lamb Stuffed Peppers
• Instant Pot Stuffed Pepper Soup
• Southwest Keto Stuffed Peppers
• Stuffed Pepper Skillet

Notes

You can use whatever bell pepper colors you prefer, yellow, orange, red or green. I prefer the red, yellow and orange as they are sweeter. 21 Day Fix Approved Recipe – 1/3 Red, 2/3 Green, 2/3 Yellow, 1/2 Blue

Serving: 1 stuffed pepper | Calories: 310 kcal | Carbohydrates: 21 g | Protein: 25 g | Fat: 15 g | Saturated Fat: 6 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7 g | Cholesterol: 88 mg | Sodium: 259 mg | Fiber: 3 g | Sugar: 4 g