Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers
Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, stuffed hot banana peppers. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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This is an awesome recipe for banana peppers stuffed with an Italian sausage mixture and baked in a delicious tomato sauce. We get requests to make them for the guys my husband works with all the time. Naturally Keto-friendly, my Hot Sausage Stuffed Banana Peppers are spicy, tender and will leave you coming back for more.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have stuffed hot banana peppers using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers:
  1. Take 10 to 12 fresh banana peppers
  2. Make ready 2 packages shredded mozzarella cheese
  3. Prepare 1 packages fresh basil (chopped)
  4. Take 1 medium container ricotta cheese
  5. Get 1 tube of Bob Evans Zesty Pork Sausage (or regular Pork Sausage) or 1 pd. ground italian sausage
  6. Get 1 jar of your favorite marinara sauce

Arrange peppers on top of marinara and grate the dry ricotta cheese on top of the hot peppers. Remove pepper stems; cut peppers in half lengthwise. Carefully remove seeds and membranes; set aside. Combine the sausage, rice, onions, garlic, salt and pepper; stuff into pepper halves.

Instructions to make Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers:
  1. Cook your sausage. Drain grease and set aside.
  2. Cut tops off of Banana peppers. With a small knife cut down about almost the length of the pepper. (don't slice all the way through pepper) Remove seeds. Place peppers in a deep pan or skillet with a lid in about an inch of water. You will steam the peppers on low heat till they are fork tender or "El dente" about 10-15 minutes. Turn peppers often. Dont let them over cook on one side.
  3. Remove peppers from pan and let cool.
  4. In a large mixing bowl add your cooked sausage, ricotta cheese, chopped fresh basil and 1 bag shredded mozzarella cheese. Mix until blended.
  5. Coat a large casserole pan with your jar of marinara. (I like a sweeter sauce so I mix in about 3-4 tablespoons of sugar to take away the bitter of the sauce) Set aside.
  6. Preheat oven to 350°
  7. Stuff each pepper with stuffing mixture and then lay atop marinara in your casserole pan.
  8. Top stuffed peppers with the remaining package of mozzarella cheese
  9. Cook stuffed peppers about 30 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

Combine tomato sauce, water and, if desired, chili powder; pour over peppers. Place the stuffed banana peppers in a baking dish. I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Remove peppers from oven and allow to cool slightly. While the peppers are cooling, in a large mixing bowl add the egg, cooled crumbled sausage, garlic, pepper, breadcrumbs and cheese.

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