Chicken Ranch Paleo Whole30 Stuffed Peppers
Healthy ranch stuffed bell peppers. A quick whole30 and paleo meal for the whole family! Stuffed with cauliflower rice, shredded chicken, spicy jalapeno and cilantro sauce.
Oh man! You didn’t know, did you?…
You didn’t know what you were missing out on.
It’s okay, I didn’t either until I tried these glorious rainbow colored stuffed peppers with ranch spilling down the sides, packed with cauliflower and spicy chicken.
It’s every reason to grab your spoon and come running to the kitchen.
My sister and I are still on our 30-day real food reset; just our own rules, no special labeled diet (but it’s basically whole30, hehe), AND big food rewards at the end of each week: dinner out.
We are both looking forward to sharing a massive bowl of sautéed veggies and chicken at the mongolian grill this Sunday to celebrate our 1-week real foodaversay! Yaaay!
stuffed pepper SURVIVAL
But what has made this whole bird-food-thing (did I mention minimal nut butters😭– my personal weakness) completely doable and actually more than enjoyable is recipes like this one.
Mind-blowingly-easy, mighty tasty, and good for ya. I would eat this all day (like yesterday).
As if yummy chicken and cauli rice wasn’t enough, I had to add in some of my household favorite paleo ranch dressing to top it all off.
Biting into one of these peppers bursts with spicy ranch flavor, drips messily down the sides of your hands, because you are finger-fooding it and face-plant style eating this.
I wish I had a picture of the actual eating to give you a more accurate description of what eating these peppers really involves.
Hint: messy, but oh so worth it!
I guess you could eat with a knife and fork like my Mom briefly mentioned to me (more than once). But that takes away from the whole eating with your hands thing, so I just kept plunging my face into glorious oversized bites of ranch stuffed peppers.
See ya on the other side of clean. 🙂
More like this:
- 4-5 assorted bell peppers remove seeds and stems
- 2-3 cups cauliflower rice
- 2-3 cups cooked shredded chicken breast
- 1 cup fresh parsley
- 1 cup fresh cilantro
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- lime juice from 1 lime
- 1-2 garlic cloves
- 1 jalapeño pepper remove stem
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup paleo mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup full fat coconut milk
- 1 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoons fresh dill
- lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
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| Cook Time | 50 minutes |
| Prep Time | 15 minutes |
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Ingredients
Peppers
Sauce
Ranch
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- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Blend ingredients for sauce in a food processor or blender until smooth.
- Blend ingredients for ranch dressing in a food processor or blender until smooth.
- Cut tops off the bell peppers and remove seeds. Set peppers into a casserole dish.
- In a bowl combine cauliflower rice, shredded chicken, and sauce. Stuff peppers with this filling.
- Bake peppers on 350F for 50 minutes. Then serve with ranch dressing.
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Nutrition Facts
Chicken Ranch Paleo Whole30 Stuffed Peppers
Amount Per Serving
Calories 380
Calories from Fat 297
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 33g
51%
Saturated Fat 6g
30%
Polyunsaturated Fat 7g
Monounsaturated Fat 18g
Cholesterol 27mg
9%
Sodium 423mg
18%
Potassium 482mg
14%
Total Carbohydrates 12g
4%
Dietary Fiber 4g
16%
Sugars 6g
Protein 12g
24%
Vitamin A
122%
Vitamin C
458%
Calcium
3%
Iron
13%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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I´ve seen many stuffed pepper recipes before, but nothing like this one, you are right I have been missing out! these look incredible and so full of flavor…love it
Thank you!
Delicious! Thank you for the recipe!
Thank you Tiffany 🙂
Should the cauliflower be cooked first or is raw ok?
Hi Erin, the cauliflower should be raw.
What can be served with this?
Anything you want! 🙂 A salad, roasted vegetables, sweet potato fries.
Can these be meal prepped and re-heated throughout the week?
Totally! 🙂 Enjoy Courtney!
Made these tonight for my picky kid and my husband who never comments on anything I make…they both thought this was delicious and full of flavor! It was sooooo good! Thanks for the awesome recipe 💗
Thank you so much Elizabeth!
Can you use frozen Cauliflower rice?
Yes! 🙂
This looks so good. I will use frozen cauliflower rice. Should I thaw first? Will it be too watery using frozen? Thank you!
Hi Mary, I suggest using raw cauliflower for best results. 🙂
Made this for a easy prep lunch (chicken in the IP) this week. Only changes I made were to add in the chopped up tops of the peppers I cut off to the chicken mix and used my own ranch recipe (W30 compliant). Ate my first one today. Super good! Thank you so much for the Recipe! I’ll be making this again. I might even try to put it on a potato to get my bf to try it. He hates bell peppers.
I do not have a food processor or blender. Can I just mix things up with my immersion blender?
Hi Jessica, that could possibly work, but it might be a little tricky. I haven’t tried it myself, so I cannot say for sure.
I just made this using 4 peppers and had enough chicken mixture leftover for another 4 peppers! Delicious! The nutritionals are based on 4 servings (assuming 4 peppers) but since there was enough for 8 peppers does that mean each serving size is really 2 peppers?
Yes, it would probably be 2 peppers. 🙂