Stuffed Banana Pepper Dip Food

STUFFED BANANA PEPPER DIP

Steps:

• Hold peppers over a flame or place on a grill to char.
• Chop peppers removing ends, rib and seeds.
• Saute onions and garlic in olive oil for about a minute.
• Add sausage and brown for another minute
• Add peppers and continue to saute until they are wilted.
• Add marinara and mix well.
• Add cheese reserving a handful (1/4 cup) for the top.
• Transfer to a serving dish and top with remaining cheese.
• Place under broiler to melt cheese.
• Serve with baguette slices, chips or crackers.

STUFFED BANANA PEPPERS

Steps:

• Mix sausage, cheese, bread crumbs, salt and pepper, and egg together in mixing bowl. Season to taste. Adjust mixture with additional cheese and bread crumbs if too dry or moist - medium moisture for stuffing desired. Make a radial slice around the top of the banana pepper leaving the top intact. Pull back top and remove seeds if so desired. Gently stuff mixture into peppers. Place olive oil in hot saute pan. Gently place peppers in the pan and fry each side until browned. Place marinara sauce in middle of plate. Arrange peppers on top of marinara and grate the dry ricotta cheese on top of the hot peppers.

BOB'S STUFFED BANANA PEPPERS

Steps:

• Cut off tops of peppers, and remove ribs and seeds. Chop edible portions of tops; set aside. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add peppers, reduce heat, and simmer until tender but still firm, about 5 minutes. Drain and set aside.
• Heat butter in a medium skillet. Saute reserved chopped pepper, onion and celery until tender, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce and garlic. Season with basil, oregano, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Simmer uncovered for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, combine egg, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, Worcestershire sauce and Parmesan. Mix in hot sausage, mild sausage, bread crumbs and 1 cup of the tomato sauce mixture.
• Using a piping bag or sausage stuffer, fill each pepper with the meat mixture. Place in a 3 quart casserole dish, and pour remaining tomato sauce mixture over peppers.
• Bake uncovered in preheated oven for 1 hour.

STUFFED BANANA PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F In a medium size bowl add sausage, goat cheese, mozzarella, green onion, basil, black pepper and mix well.
• To prepare peppers, cut the end where the stem is and remove all the seeds.
• Stuff peppers only to the end of the pepper do not go over. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Serve hot.
• Another option is you can cut peppers lengthwise in half if you want smaller appetizers, generously stuffing only half of each pepper.

STUFFED PEPPER DIP RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Wear gloves when handling the peppers! Poke peppers and microwave for 3 minutes. When cool, seed and chop. Mix cream cheese, mozzarella and parm cheese. Add peppers last. Press into 13"9" pan. Sprinkle with bread crumbs, drizzle with olive oil. Bake at 350 degrees fahrenheit for 20 minutes. Serve with French bread, baguette slices or crackers.

SAUSAGE STUFFED BANANA PEPPERS

Steps:

• Clean peppers by carefull slicing a T into pepper being careful not to cut the cap off. slice down the length of pepper but leave enough at the bottom so that pepper is not cut to the very end. Remove all seeds. If you don't like your peppers too hot you can soak the cleaned peppers in cold water for and hour and this will lessen the heat of the pepper.
• Brown your sausage with the minced garlic, pepper & parsley.
• While sausage is cooking, crush the Ritz crackers into a fine crumbs. Add parmesan cheese to cracker mix and combine well.
• Remove cooked sausage and chop finely in blender so it appears more like ground sausage. Place ground sausage in bowl. Add crushed Ritz crackers and parmesan cheese and mix well. Add 1-2 Tbsp of melted butter to mix so help make the stuffing moist if it appears to dry but not wet.
• Preheat stove to 375 degrees.
• Spoon stuffing into peppers. Fill generously from top to bottom of pepper.
• Depending what type of dish or dishes you use to bake the peppers, I ususally use 2 casserole dishes and pour the olive oil into the bottom of the pans so there is about a 1/2 of olive oil in pans. Lay peppers in baking dishes. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Pull peppers out and generously spread shredded mozzarella cheese over peppers. Bake for 5-10 minutes so cheese is melted well.
• Cool slightly and serve.

BANANA PEPPER DIP RECIPE - (3.8/5)

Steps:

• Mix softened cream cheese, all the cheeses, and the peppers and spread in a pie dish . Sprinkle bread crumbs on top, drizzle olive oil. Bake at 425 degrees fahrenheit for 15-20 minutes or until bubbly. Serve with crackers or tortilla chips.