JoePa’s Black and Gold Stuffed Banana Peppers
(from skitime’s recipe box)
(Makes 25-40 Peppers)
Source: Joe from Pittsburgh, Pa
Categories: Dinner
Ingredients
- Hot Banana Peppers
- Mild Banana Peppers
- 1 lb of hot sausage
- 1 cup Romano Cheese
- 1 lb. mild sausage
- 1-cup Parmesean Cheese
- 1 cup Mozzarella
- 1 lb ground beef-85% lean or ground turkey breast (what I use)
- 2-3 Eggs
- 4 Cups Italian bread crumbs (hot pepper seeds optional)
- Sliced garlic, minced
- 1 can Italian tomato sauce (I used a jar of classico sauce)
- 2 cups water, or as needed
Directions
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Cut off tops of banana peppers, clean and rinse – set aside to stuff. Have enough to use all the meat you have prepared.
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Mix in big bowl or dish, 1lb of hot sausage and 1/2 lb of ground meat.
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Add in 1 or 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of Romano and 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese, 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, add a pinch of minced garlic and a pinch of parsley flakes (small handful), 2 c. of Ital. Bread crumbs, add water 1c. or as needed to keep mixture moist.
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MIX CONTENTS WELL.
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Stuff hot sausage/meat mixture into hot peppers. Put into glass baking dish and cover with Italian tomato sauce.
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Cover dish with aluminum foil while cooking.
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eheat oven 350 degrees. Cook peppers for 1 hr. at 350.
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For mild peppers do the same mixture as above except use 1lb. of mild sausage and 1/2 lb beef or turkey stuff into mild peppers. It should be the remaining ingredients left on your counter top.
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Tips:
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You can use the pepper seeds out of the peppers you cleaned in your mix.
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Don’t be afraid to increase or decrease mix ingred., you are trying to get the meat to a nice consistency to be able to stuff it into the peppers without any hassles.
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Cut off the tips of each pepper and then pinch the bottom, your goal here is to allow air to escape while stuffing-if you don’t do this your pepper will probably crack.