When I was looking around on Pinterest a while ago, I came across a soup that I had never heard of before: stuffed pepper soup. I was looking for bell pepper soups and I almost only saw recipes for stuffed pepper soup. Apparently a big hit on Pinterest that I have missed, here in the Netherlands I have never seen it before. 

Ingredients that you usually put in a stuffed pepper, such as rice, minced meat, canned tomatoes and of course bell pepper, but then in a soup. I thought it was a really nice idea. It takes a little less time to make than stuffed peppers, but it tastes just as good.

I thought, I want to eat this too, so I created a low FODMAP stuffed pepper soup. A delicious filling soup that can be eaten as a proper meal. And it is ready in just a little more than half an hour.

The ingredients of this stuffed pepper soup

The ingredients of this soup are simple:

• Rice: I used brown rice, for some extra fiber
  
• Minced meat: I used lean minced meat. You can also use a low FODMAP vegetarian mince if you want to make this soup vegetarian. I like Quorn vegetarian mince.
  
• Green bell peppers (or red, check note below): no stuffed pepper soup without peppers of course!*
  
• A can of diced tomatoes
  
• Extra vegetables: would you like some more veggies in the soup? Then you can add some other low FODMAP vegetables that you like. For example: canned corn (max. 75 gram per serving), canned mushrooms or pieces of carrot.
  
• Topping: nothing better than some toppings on your soup. I used some slices of jalapeño pepper, fresh cilantro and some grated cheese. You could also add some lactose-free sour cream as a topping.

*Note: in 2022, the low FODMAP amounts for tomato and red bell pepper have been changed. Both are high in fructose at a certain amount and therefore cannot be combined so easily anymore. You can adapt this recipe to still be low FODMAP if you use green bell pepper instead of red. 

If you are not in the elimination phase anymore and you know that you tolerate fructose well, you can continue to use red bell peppers in this recipe. 

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