5-Ingredient Pesto Chicken Stuffed Peppers
Charred bell peppers, shredded chicken, herb pesto, cooked quinoa, and melty cheese. A quick and easy 5-ingredient weeknight dinner – it’s packed with flavor and it’s healthy, too!
Are you ready for this? A five ingredient , YES, five ingredient, quick, easy, delicious dinner.
School is right around the corner and we are all about quick, easy, delicious dinners. Most important of the three being delicious, closely followed by quick and easy.
Not only are these stuffed peppers delicious, but they are so unbelievably easy and only require five ingredients: bell peppers, cooked chicken breasts or rotisserie chicken, cooked quinoa, jarred pesto, and shredded cheese.
This dish is kind of a miracle. You can probably guess how easy this weeknight meal is. It gets as complicated as shredding the chicken and stuffing the peppers.
Pesto is definitely the key ingredient in this dish . It packs in so much flavor with only a couple flicks of the wrist as you spoon it into the bowl – it’s my go to ingredient for adding a ton of flavor with little effort to any dish!
These are awesome served with a side salad or with a drizzle of marinara sauce over top!
5-Ingredient Pesto Chicken Stuffed Peppers
Charred bell peppers, shredded chicken, herb pesto, cooked quinoa, and melty cheese. A quick and easy 5-ingredient weeknight dinner – it’s packed with flavor and it’s healthy, too!

Ingredients:
6 red, orange, or yellow bell peppers
2 chicken breast, cooked and shredded (You could also use a whole rotisserie chicken.)
1 1⁄2 cups mozzarella cheese, divided and shredded
1 cup cooked quinoa
1 (6.25 oz) jar of pesto
Directions:
- Turn on broiler to high. Place bell peppers under broiler and broil from 5 minutes on each side until skin blisters and begins to turn black.
- Remove peppers from oven, set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium size mixing bowl combine the shredded chicken with 1 cup shredded cheese, the pesto and the quinoa and toss to coat.
- Once peppers are cool enough to handle, slice in half and remove membranes and seeds. Add a heaping 1/4 cup of the chicken mixture to each pepper and top with cheese.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Serve immediately.
I love meals that are quick and easy. This looks delicious and it’s great that it is nice and healthy too. Love it.
Thanks….we agree….delicious combined with quick and easy is a winner 🙂 And of course healthy is always good >3
It looks really good! Thank you for sharing!
I LOVE this! I’m always looking for recipes with bell peppers because let’s face it they are fresh and colorful and delicious. But sometimes I get bored with traditional stuffed pepper recipe. Thanks for sharing! I wonder how this would be with a slice of roasted tomato on top. Yum!
xo Rachel
I bet roasted tomato on top would be great! I love roasted tomatoes!! Hope you enjoy 🙂
These are amazing! Just happened to have leftover chicken and quinoa plus peppers from a friend’s garden. Thank you!
Yay! So glad!! Hope you like them 🙂
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Thanks for including our 5 Ingredient Pesto Chicken Stuffed Peppers! 🙂
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Made these for our flat and everybody loved them! Fantastic recipe girls, look forward to trying out more of your stuff!
Thanks so much for letting us know – really glad you liked them!! Happy Friday to you!
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how much is 1 serving – 1 Pepper or 1/2 of a pepper?
One serving is 1/2 a pepper. The quinoa and chicken make them very filling.
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What a great way to do stuffed peppers! I just made these for dinner tonight and loved them. This is the second recipe I’ve tried from your site and can’t wait to try others. Thanks for creating such delicious recipes!
So happy to hear!! 🙂
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I made these and they were amazing! Best stuffed peppers I’ve ever had, wouldn’t change a thing! The drizzle of marinara on top was a great idea! Made them extra moist! I loved how much you could really taste the pesto in this. Great recipe, Emily! Can’t wait to try your Honey Lime Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Peppers!
Awesome!! So happy to hear!!
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I literally cannot say enough about how awesome this dish is. I found this online probably almost 2 years ago and I’ve made it so many times since. I’ve always used brown rice instead since I have it on hand and it comes out great! This dish is SO easy and SO flavorful. Also makes great leftovers!
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Could you use rice as a substitute to quinoa?
Yes!
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