Recipe: Yummy Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers

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Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers. 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. Remove pepper stems; cut peppers in half lengthwise.

Combine tomato sauce, water and, if desired, chili powder; pour over peppers.

Hot banana peppers are stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan cheeses, plus pepperoni and parsley, then smothered in spaghetti sauce.

Cut the tops off of the peppers and set them aside (throwing away the stem itself).

You can have Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers

  1. Prepare 10 of to 12 fresh banana peppers.

  2. Prepare 2 packages of shredded mozzarella cheese.

  3. You need 1 packages of fresh basil (chopped).

  4. You need 1 medium of container ricotta cheese.

  5. It’s 1 of tube of Bob Evans Zesty Pork Sausage (or regular Pork Sausage) or 1 pd. ground italian sausage.

  6. Prepare 1 of jar of your favorite marinara sauce.

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.

Naturally Keto-friendly, my Hot Sausage Stuffed Banana Peppers are spicy, tender and will leave you coming back for more.

Stuffed Hot Banana Peppers step by step

  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. (dont 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..

The best part is the intoxicating flavor they give off — a total Italian classic!

Depending on where you live or the time of year, you may not have access to banana peppers.

I put a couple of slices of homemade bread into a food processor to make the bread crumbs.

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.