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Peppers with Spicy Turkey Stuffing Recipe

A baked dish of peppers filled with a turkey, rice, and tomato mixture.

From the NHS (UK) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Peppers with Spicy Turkey Stuffing Recipe

Oven190 °C (fan 170 °C, gas mark 5)
Time20 to 25 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 190 °C (fan 170 °C, gas mark 5) and arrange the peppers cut-side up in a roasting pan.

  2. Bring a large saucepan of water to a simmer, add the rice and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or according to the pack instructions, until tender.

Make the filling

  1. While the rice is cooking, heat the vegetable oil in a large frying pan or wok and stir-fry the onion and garlic for about 3 minutes, until softened.

  2. Add the turkey to the pan and stir-fry for about 5 minutes.

  3. Add the tomatoes, peas, paprika and herbs, then remove the pan from the heat.

  4. Drain the rice, stir it thoroughly into the tomato mixture and season with some pepper.

Stuff and bake

  1. Spoon the filling into the pepper halves – if there is too much, spoon the excess into the roasting pan.

  2. Cover the pan with foil, bake for 20 to 25 minutes, then serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

634Calories
42 gProtein
18 gFat
75 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the NHS (UK).

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Peppers
Hold the filling and soften into tender, sweet cups as they bake.
Long grain white rice
Bulks out the filling and absorbs the tomato and juices as it cooks.
Turkey breast
Provides the lean meat that gives the filling its body and savoury flavour.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and gentle acidity that keep the filling juicy.
Onion
Builds sweetness and aroma as it softens in the oil.

The step that matters

Cover the pan with foil before baking. Covering traps steam so the peppers soften through and the filling heats evenly without drying out on top.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, rice, onion, garlic, turkey, tomato):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Black-eyed peafits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, rice, onion, garlic, turkey, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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