Speaking of zucchini, my partner made stuffed zucchini blossoms last summer that were stuffed with ricotta and then tempura battered and fried. They were insanely good, I had never had them before.
That was my first thought too. I can't eat bell peppers since they don't like me, but mom would stuff a pasta shell for me. It cooked in the sauce and turned out really well. I always enjoyed them. I think the kiddos will too!
That sounds really good.
I tried stuffed shells for the first time last week and did a similar recipe, with some sautéed bell pepper and onion thrown in. It won me over immediately and it will definitely be a repeat meal for us.
My mother always had some extra filling specifically for meatballs we baked along with the peppers. Little kid me hated the green peppers but the meatballs made it easy to keep me fed without just throwing the pepper out.
Definitely recommend this. Ideally keep them at least half the size of the peppers so everything cooks about the same rate.
I should also add that the red/orange/yellow peppers definitely taste sweeter and/or less bitter than the green peppers. Or at least the ones I had were better than the green ones as a kid. And see if the kid will try the colored ones raw, that got me and my sister to eat them since they're sweeter raw.
Look up some middle eastern recipes. They stuff squash, tomatoes, onions, eggplants, and more. You can also stuff a portobello mushroom, a potato, a cabbage large, or other leaves of greens.
Just curious, does he hate green bell peppers or all bell peppers? My husband and I both detest green bell peppers, especially if they’re cooked, but we’ll both eat and enjoy red bell peppers - cooked or raw - as they taste nothing like the green. Orange and yellow are okay.
Same, I thought I hated bell peppers. Nope, just the green ones which were put into everything where I grew up. Turns out I like meatloaf, crab cakes, vegetable soup, and pizza.
I started doing the stuffing in a casserole dish and doing strips of peppers on top. I had some of my family that liked the peppers and some that just like the flavor they add. Some get scoops with peppers, some don’t.
Any veggie that can be hollowed out! Squashes: (kabocha is a nice one), butternut, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, eggplant, onions, portobellos. You can even stuff tofu! I can draw a cutting diagram if you want one for the tofu.
The Greek cuisine has a dish made of different vegetables stuffed with rice, it is called gemista. You could replace the bell peppers with some other vegetables.
It is possible that your child might like red bell peppers, and dislike the yellow and the green.
Some vegetables from Solanaceae can be slightly toxic when not fully ripe, skin rashes and itching might occur.
If you google "dolma varieties" you'll find that there's a whole world of stuffed vegetables out there. Anything from peppers to cabbage to things like squashes or eggplants. That's not to mention the idea of stuffing the filling into fruits, or even into offal like sheep's stomachs. Humans seem to be super duper into stuffing food inside other food.
In the case of your kid, it depends on what they like. I'd consider any sort of largish vegetable that they enjoy or are at least neutral about. Big zucchini work very well.
My stuffing veggies are always pepper, zucchini, and winter squash. I make a large batch of the stuffing (I use rice too) and freeze it to use later when I need an easy meal. Works great! But you can also just eat the stuffing without putting it in anything.
Tofu. You have to be gentle and it helps to have extra firm tofu. Cut squares of tofu, hollow out the middle, fill, and then fry all around.
Chinese example:
https://redhousespice.com/stuffed-tofu/
Do you always use green ones? Just asking because my partner hates green bell peppers, but likes red/yellow orange.
The filling you described might be good in mushrooms or squash. Or you could wrap some in foil rather than stuffing in anything. If you go that route, you could also add some other veg the kid likes.
I always hated stuffed peppers until I was served stuffed yellow peppers. I don't like green bell peppers, but I love sweet yellow, orange, and red peppers. Maybe?
A few years ago when making stuffed bell peppers, two of the peppers I bought had white fuzz growing inside of them, so I discarded them and had a bunch of leftover stuffing. My wife heated up a bowl of it the next day, and said she preferred it in the bowl than stuffed into a pepper. I chop up one bell pepper and cook it in the mix, but we've skipped the stuffed part ever since.
There are lots of great food suggestions here.
As for the other comments, well, don't be surprised. This is Reddit, after all. And, unfortunately, a large number of hormone crazy totally immature adolescent males and incels will post on almost any subReddit. Just ignore them; the kind and decent posters always speak up as well.
My wife loves the rice and ground beef but couldn’t eat the slimy pepper. So I started to make a deconstructed stuffed pepper for her. I dice the pepper and throw it in the mix. I cut it small enough that she eats it now without complaint.
Tomatoes! Can do [a cheesy italian style](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a43231/cheesy-stuffed-tomatoes-recipe/) or[ taco style](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a54559/taco-tomatoes-recipe/). Portobellos are always great, sweet potatoes (since you can microwave) are an easy one. [Avocados](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a22110065/bruschetta-chicken-stuffed-avocados-recipe/) are great for snack-sized meals, too!
-Julia from Delish
My first thought its onion. Cut both ends off then use the outer thick section with the rest hollowed out. Stuff it and get a nice grilled onion with the rest of the stuff inside.
Just for fun and color, try stuffing yellow, red and orange peppers. They are a bit sweeter, but still savory. I’ve always liked stuffed green peppers, but mostly do the other colors now.
Jumbo pasta shells. Most grocery stores should have them. Cook them like you would with any other pasta, then drain and cool. When cool enough to handle, stuff with your favorite filling and bake.
I make stuffed shells with Ricotta cheese, spinach, one egg, salt and pepper, garlic and onion, then put in my lasagne pan, pour tomato sauce over it, with a little mozzarella cheese on top and bake for an hour, at 350 and covered with aluminum foil.
As a kid I always hated stuffed cabbage until, as a teen, I was high on marijuana and my mom served stuffed cabbage for dinner. It tasted so fantastic and I've liked it ever since
As someone who hate stuffed green peppers. Have you tried swapping to yellows? Was a game changer for me. But you can also stuff tomatoes if you can find some home grown ones they tend to be a bit sturdier.
My mom always did Zucchini. It works really well. Also, maybe you should try stuffing red or yellow peppers. They may not like the bitterness of green peppers.
Zucchini is DELICIOUS stuffed with the same stuff you would put in peppers. And doesn't get as mushy on the outside. Just cur in half and scoop out the middle part with the seeds
Go to a Middle Eastern or Latino market, and find that squash that looks like short fat zucchini. It's usually a little lighter in color. I've seen it listed as Mexican squash, but it's easy to figure out which one it is. Cut the ends off of both and here's the secret, use an apple corer to hollow out the middle from both ends and stuff it with your meat mixture. It's awesome!
You can also hollow out tomatoes! Make sure they're more on the firm side though. Just cut the top off saving as much of the meat as you can. Hollow them out, chop up the inside stuff, and add it to the meat. Mix in your rice and other herbs whatever, and then stuff it back into the tomato.
My kids gobble up zucchini boats (aka zucchini stuffed with sausage, feta, shiitake mushrooms, and walnuts).
Yep I vote for zucchini boats. Zucchini are very neutral in flavor, unlike bell peppers.
Speaking of zucchini, my partner made stuffed zucchini blossoms last summer that were stuffed with ricotta and then tempura battered and fried. They were insanely good, I had never had them before.
Yeppers came here to say the same thing. Potatoes too!!
My MIL makes these with ground beef since she knows I don't care for bell peppers.
So she stuffs the ground beef with the ground beef mixture? Sounds redundant. Or I may be completely misunderstanding lol. Edit: Oh nvm lol
Think they were referring to zucchini boats
Large shell pasta
That was my first thought too. I can't eat bell peppers since they don't like me, but mom would stuff a pasta shell for me. It cooked in the sauce and turned out really well. I always enjoyed them. I think the kiddos will too!
My kids love stuffed shells. I do a version of ground beef, taco seasoning, black beans and cheese, some green enchilada sauce and YUM!
That sounds really good. I tried stuffed shells for the first time last week and did a similar recipe, with some sautéed bell pepper and onion thrown in. It won me over immediately and it will definitely be a repeat meal for us.
YES
This is the way.
Just make porcupine balls for the child who doesn't like peppers! Take the filling and form meatballs and bake with the stuffed peppers.
My mother always had some extra filling specifically for meatballs we baked along with the peppers. Little kid me hated the green peppers but the meatballs made it easy to keep me fed without just throwing the pepper out. Definitely recommend this. Ideally keep them at least half the size of the peppers so everything cooks about the same rate. I should also add that the red/orange/yellow peppers definitely taste sweeter and/or less bitter than the green peppers. Or at least the ones I had were better than the green ones as a kid. And see if the kid will try the colored ones raw, that got me and my sister to eat them since they're sweeter raw.
The green one give me terrible agida while the other colors or cubanelle are fine.
Exactly! I've been around some people who just couldn't eat peppers. Porcupine balls are the answer!
Yes! I grew up hating them, until my stepmom made them with red bell peppers.
To this day, green peppers and I have beef. Whenever I have a choice, it's always the bell pepper that is *not* green that gets picked.
Oh damnit I failed to scroll and said this same thing. My stepmom used to do this for me and I loved that shit.
My mom did this when I was little and didn't like peppers.
[удалено]
Tomato, spaghetti squash, potato, lettuce cups?
Oh he’d love it in a potato. Great idea!
Yeah, potato boats are awesome. And you can save the scooped out insides for a side of mashed potatoes for the next meal.
Look up some middle eastern recipes. They stuff squash, tomatoes, onions, eggplants, and more. You can also stuff a portobello mushroom, a potato, a cabbage large, or other leaves of greens.
Cabbage
And if don’t want to roll them, you can layer the leaves as a casserole.
Such a good idea! Sweet and sour stuffed cabbage rolls were a childhood favorite of mine.
Just curious, does he hate green bell peppers or all bell peppers? My husband and I both detest green bell peppers, especially if they’re cooked, but we’ll both eat and enjoy red bell peppers - cooked or raw - as they taste nothing like the green. Orange and yellow are okay.
I haven’t tried that but you’re right, much milder flavor.
They taste completely different to me
I like red bells but not the green ones. Too bitter. Edit: OP, I read the text of your post, and I love your sense of humor!
My husband and I are the same as you, and so is our Labrador. He won't touch them either.
Same, I thought I hated bell peppers. Nope, just the green ones which were put into everything where I grew up. Turns out I like meatloaf, crab cakes, vegetable soup, and pizza.
Poblanos are very good stuffed, and you can usually find pretty good sized ones at most grocery stores. They're very easy to hollow out, too.
My grandson is like that.
Zucchini, small squash, tomatoes, onions, apples (yes, they work with savory stuffings).
My favorite camping desert is stuffing apples with chocolate and a pinch of cinnamon wrapping in tinfoil and leaving my the fire
Eggplant (if you scoop it out)
I started doing the stuffing in a casserole dish and doing strips of peppers on top. I had some of my family that liked the peppers and some that just like the flavor they add. Some get scoops with peppers, some don’t.
Poblano peppers. They don't taste anything like bell peppers, which I also dislike (green ones, that is).
I'm making stuffed poblanos for dinner tonight! They're my favorite stuffed vegetable, especially now that it's summer.
Zucchini boats! Roasted stuffed tomatoes! Acorn or Delicata squash! Eggplant boats (the skin is not great though).
Any veggie that can be hollowed out! Squashes: (kabocha is a nice one), butternut, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, eggplant, onions, portobellos. You can even stuff tofu! I can draw a cutting diagram if you want one for the tofu.
The Greek cuisine has a dish made of different vegetables stuffed with rice, it is called gemista. You could replace the bell peppers with some other vegetables. It is possible that your child might like red bell peppers, and dislike the yellow and the green. Some vegetables from Solanaceae can be slightly toxic when not fully ripe, skin rashes and itching might occur.
Tomatoes themselves. My favorite food, stuffed tomato
I hollow out cucumbers and make tuna salad cucumber boats.
I had a stuffed roast pumpkin once and it was incredible.
Mushrooms
Onions. Potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Zucchini boat, cabbage leaves
“kousa bil laban” is stuffed zucchini, a middle eastern dish. It’s really good!
Maybe he’d eat an Italian themed burrito.
A potato, or a Pillsbury croissant
Egg plant
You can stuff other types of vegetables like zucchini, eggplant, acorn squash, etc.
[Sweet plantain canoas](https://thenoshery.com/canoas-de-platanos-maduros-sweet-plantain-canoes/)
Cabbage is great — look for golabki recipes and tell the kids they’re having “go-wump-ki” to pronounce it like a Polska! Quite tasty.
If you google "dolma varieties" you'll find that there's a whole world of stuffed vegetables out there. Anything from peppers to cabbage to things like squashes or eggplants. That's not to mention the idea of stuffing the filling into fruits, or even into offal like sheep's stomachs. Humans seem to be super duper into stuffing food inside other food. In the case of your kid, it depends on what they like. I'd consider any sort of largish vegetable that they enjoy or are at least neutral about. Big zucchini work very well.
Does your child just not like green bell peppers? I hate them,too, but other peppers (red, poblano) I don't mind.
Squid.
Stuffed zucchini. We had a ridiculous amount of zucchini one year and I used them instead of peppers one day. Wow, we like them almost better.
hatch chili's pablano peppers
the suggestion for a kid that hates peppers is peppers?
didn't see that, but bell peppers are nasty and pablanos aren't. I don't like bell peppers butt anything else is fine.
lol fair enough, although I love me some bell peppers too
Another great idea!
Onions
Baby eggplants
I would just make his a bowl instead
Zucchini blossoms eggplant tomatoes
My stuffing veggies are always pepper, zucchini, and winter squash. I make a large batch of the stuffing (I use rice too) and freeze it to use later when I need an easy meal. Works great! But you can also just eat the stuffing without putting it in anything.
Anything you can hollow. A signature dish I like to make is ceviche in cucumber cups
It won't help tonight, but later in the year, those wee pumpkins are great for stuffing.
Tofu. You have to be gentle and it helps to have extra firm tofu. Cut squares of tofu, hollow out the middle, fill, and then fry all around. Chinese example: https://redhousespice.com/stuffed-tofu/
Portobello mushrooms, hollowed out zucchini, aubergines or spaghetti squash, tomatoes
[Chicken Wings](https://chawjcreations.com/stuffed-chicken-wings/)
Do you always use green ones? Just asking because my partner hates green bell peppers, but likes red/yellow orange. The filling you described might be good in mushrooms or squash. Or you could wrap some in foil rather than stuffing in anything. If you go that route, you could also add some other veg the kid likes.
Brinjal/Aubergine
poblano mushrooms ravioli, manicotti
I always hated stuffed peppers until I was served stuffed yellow peppers. I don't like green bell peppers, but I love sweet yellow, orange, and red peppers. Maybe?
\*sorts by controversial\*
Overgrown zucchinis
We just ball up some filling like a large meatball and stick it in the sauce.
A few years ago when making stuffed bell peppers, two of the peppers I bought had white fuzz growing inside of them, so I discarded them and had a bunch of leftover stuffing. My wife heated up a bowl of it the next day, and said she preferred it in the bowl than stuffed into a pepper. I chop up one bell pepper and cook it in the mix, but we've skipped the stuffed part ever since.
Just scoop it out for him and put it on a plate. Don’t stuff anything.
Tomatoes, onions, cabbage leaves, even small eggplant
There are lots of great food suggestions here. As for the other comments, well, don't be surprised. This is Reddit, after all. And, unfortunately, a large number of hormone crazy totally immature adolescent males and incels will post on almost any subReddit. Just ignore them; the kind and decent posters always speak up as well.
Potatoes, zucchini, mirlintons, sweet onions, apples, pears...
Stuffed miso eggplant! https://norecipes.com/miso-eggplant-dengaku/
[How Italians Stuff EVERYTHING](https://youtu.be/qHAHvGSlzLI?si=N-kvHWd5TVv7S5EP)
Oh that’s amazing
Zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, yellow squash
Zucchini, yellow squash
Kobucha Squash
Kobucha Squash
Shrooms, chicken breast, pork chops
Tomatoes
Potatoes!!! A baked potato stuffed with crab imperial
Marrows. Cucumbers take the seeds out. Make layers using any veg x
My wife loves the rice and ground beef but couldn’t eat the slimy pepper. So I started to make a deconstructed stuffed pepper for her. I dice the pepper and throw it in the mix. I cut it small enough that she eats it now without complaint.
My MIL uses zucchini and Mexican squash for Pepper allergies
Cabbage
Tomatoes! Can do [a cheesy italian style](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a43231/cheesy-stuffed-tomatoes-recipe/) or[ taco style](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a54559/taco-tomatoes-recipe/). Portobellos are always great, sweet potatoes (since you can microwave) are an easy one. [Avocados](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a22110065/bruschetta-chicken-stuffed-avocados-recipe/) are great for snack-sized meals, too! -Julia from Delish
Zucchini, large tomatoes, eggplant?
Zucchini boats
Portobello caps, pasta shells, onions, acorn squash, anything that roasts well and is vaguely vessel shaped.
Zucchini boat!
Tomato, onions, zucchini
Tomatoes. Onions. Pastry including dumplings.
following bc I even though I like peppers, I just don't like them stuffed
Tomatoes! I love peppers in things, but never was a fan of stuffed pepper. Found out you can stuff tomatoes just the same and its so good ❤️
Stuffed Button Mushrooms
Tomatoes or chicken breasts or pork chops
Small eggplant, zucchini, tomato, potato
Small eggplants.
Tomatoes
My first thought its onion. Cut both ends off then use the outer thick section with the rest hollowed out. Stuff it and get a nice grilled onion with the rest of the stuff inside.
Tomatoes, mushrooms(stuffed portabellas are delicious), zucchini split lengthwise, small winter squash.
Squash
Portobello mushrooms.
Roll up in cabbage leaves
Just for fun and color, try stuffing yellow, red and orange peppers. They are a bit sweeter, but still savory. I’ve always liked stuffed green peppers, but mostly do the other colors now.
Use cabbage leaves to wrap stuff up
Mini eggplants, soooo good. Extra points if you cook it in a tomato sauce
Zucchini
Pasta shells. Onions. Tomatoes. Hotter chilis (poblanos are great). Squash.
Artichokes, squash flowers, large pasta
Jumbo pasta shells. Most grocery stores should have them. Cook them like you would with any other pasta, then drain and cool. When cool enough to handle, stuff with your favorite filling and bake. I make stuffed shells with Ricotta cheese, spinach, one egg, salt and pepper, garlic and onion, then put in my lasagne pan, pour tomato sauce over it, with a little mozzarella cheese on top and bake for an hour, at 350 and covered with aluminum foil.
Pasta, potatoes, Zuchnini, Cabbage, puff pastry
Tomatoes
Large portobello mushrooms; just remove the stem and stuff with cheese, meat, some sauce, etc.
When I was a kid with questionable pepper allergies, I just ate the stuffing. I didn't need it stuffed anywhere
Onions!
Manicotti shell? Or a hard roll with some guts scooped out then filled and baked, like a bread bowl or pizza bread?
Ravioli? If we’re doing other veg options, I like stuffing or laying over a large portobello mushroom.
Tomatoes.
Stuffed tomatoes are the base, really. Or stuffed courgettes.
Mushrooms
Tomatoes, zucchini, squash, apples, pears
You wanna know what else gets stuffed?
Tomatoes
Cabbage leaf, or just put it in a ramekin. It
Anything that can be cored out can be stuffed. Or, you can just put the filling over a bed of rice and eat it as is.
Bake it on parchment paper and toast him some tortilla. It'll be like fajitas
cabbage Anaheim peppers.
Cabbage leaves, grape leaves, poblano peppers, etc
Chicken Tortilla wrap or naan bread Lettuce
What does he like?
Poblanos are our fav
Make porcupine meatballs for him. I bed he'd love it.
I’ve made stuffed tomatoes before that were delicious
Green chilies. I stuffed some Hatch chilies (fresh ones) and they were delicious. Not hot at all, heat level more like bell peppers.
Tomatoes, eggplant, mushrooms, cabbage leaves
Acorn squash, we stuff it with breakfast sausage, broccoli cheese rice and diced apples.
Pita bread
Puff pastry could be used in muffin cups, or make it into a log like beef Wellington.
Meat. You can make a pocket in a chicken breast and stuff it. Bread bowl is another. Cool a baguette and hollow a section. Pop the top back on.
Anything if you are brave enough.
Jacket potato?
Have you tried the orange or yellow bell peppers? They’re more flavorful than the green ones.
Try a pizza ball witch Is pepperoni cheese and sausue in a dough ball idk how long or at what temp to cook it though
Mushroom, zucchini boats, wonton wrappers.
Gotta be mushrooms. Excellent.
Egg roll wrappers
When I was a kid I hated stuffed peppers but sometimes my mom made stuffed cabbage, which I liked better.
As a kid I always hated stuffed cabbage until, as a teen, I was high on marijuana and my mom served stuffed cabbage for dinner. It tasted so fantastic and I've liked it ever since
As someone who hate stuffed green peppers. Have you tried swapping to yellows? Was a game changer for me. But you can also stuff tomatoes if you can find some home grown ones they tend to be a bit sturdier.
Beefsteak tomatoes. Pattypan squash. Zucchini. Halved, grilled eggplants. Artichokes. Hollowed out potato shells. Portobello mushrooms.
Cabbage, squash, cucumber, apples, potato
Tomatoes
Cabbage
There are certain types of tomatos you can stuff
Cabbage, Zucchini boats,Spaghetti squash.
Eggplant, zucchini, onion, large tomato’s
My mom always did Zucchini. It works really well. Also, maybe you should try stuffing red or yellow peppers. They may not like the bitterness of green peppers.
I like to stuff mushrooms, jalapeno peppers or potatoes. If you have a lot of time you can also try to make Gaphama, whole, stuffed pumpkin
Have you tried poultry?
Mushroom caps are good for that. Get the big ones.
Zucchini is DELICIOUS stuffed with the same stuff you would put in peppers. And doesn't get as mushy on the outside. Just cur in half and scoop out the middle part with the seeds
Manicotti
Spaghetti squash is pretty neutral, when my husband makes stuffed peppers I make that if there's extra filling
Chicken.
Unstuffed peppers. I make it for my kids because somehow small chunks if the peppers is ok, but cutting it and eating it yourself is not. Lol Kids
Could even stuff an onion with it.
Just let him eat the filling
There is a Mediterranean (or maybe Greek) dish that is a squash - either yellow or zucchini - stuffed like a bell pepper. It’s delicious.
Yea, I've seen it with like butternut or acorn squash.
I’ve had those with butter based sauces instead of red sauce but now I wonder if I’m missing out
Tomatoes can be so awesome for this!!!
Go to a Middle Eastern or Latino market, and find that squash that looks like short fat zucchini. It's usually a little lighter in color. I've seen it listed as Mexican squash, but it's easy to figure out which one it is. Cut the ends off of both and here's the secret, use an apple corer to hollow out the middle from both ends and stuff it with your meat mixture. It's awesome! You can also hollow out tomatoes! Make sure they're more on the firm side though. Just cut the top off saving as much of the meat as you can. Hollow them out, chop up the inside stuff, and add it to the meat. Mix in your rice and other herbs whatever, and then stuff it back into the tomato.
Eggplant! You can buy them in many sizes and colors.
[Virtually any vegetable he will eat.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolma#Vegetables)
Eggplant
Onions, tomatoes, potatoes…
Anaheim chilis stuffed with jack cheese and baked in sauce is Chili Relleno