Recipe from DDD: Stuffed banana peppers

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

I was watching DDD the other day and saw someone in upstate NY (near Buffalo) make stuffed banana peppers, and they described the ingredients and method, but not the quantities. The recipe sounded interesting, and so I wrote it down and then improvised myself with the proportions, and here's what I came up with:

Recipe:

8 Banana peppers, cored and seeded
Oil for baking (I used avocado oil)
1 tbsp Butter
3 cloves Garlic, minced
Minced chili (I used one fresh Habanero)
Hot sauce, if needed (I omitted this but should have added some)
8 oz. Monterrey Jack cheese, cubed
3/4 cup Grated Romano cheese
2/3 cup Dry bread crumbs with
1 tbsp Italian dried herbs (I used half Italian herbs and half Cajun seasoning)

Cut off ends of banana peppers and remove seeds and insides, keeping peppers otherwise whole. Place on a baking sheet with oil and bake at 350° for 12-14 minutes, turning once.

Melt butter in a sauté pan and onion. Cook until translucent but not brown – add garlic and chili and cook about 2 minutes more. Add hot sauce, if you think you will need it, and then stir in cubed Jack cheese and grated Romano. Cook over low heat until combined, and then add the seasoned bread crumbs off heat.
Fold into a combined mass. You could taste it as this point to see if it needs hot sauce.

Stuff each pepper with 1/8 of the filling and return to baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 7 minutes.

Serve with chopped fresh tomatoes, if you have them.

*Note: if using a toaster oven, use 360° instead of 350°.

For me, the peppers came out a bit crunchy, but I think that's how they are supposed to be. I liked the flavors, but I think I would have liked it better if I had added some hot sauce to it, or if I had used two Habanero chilies instead of just one.

Do you ever make recipes that you have only seen on TV and not tasted? Normally I like to taste a recipe before I make it, but especially if it is very different from anything I've had before. With this recipe, I knew I liked all the ingredients, which are similar to what you might use for a grilled cheese sandwich, except that here the bread is inside.

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plllog
6 years ago
I'm usually pretty good at imagining what something will taste like, whether from a recipe or a presentation. I more often cook like you did, starting with a result and figuring out how to get there, than with recipes. If I really like the outcome, I'll write it down and try to make it again. If it's reproducible. Like my pumpkin lasagna. The chicken marinade I just made relies on three different remainders of macerating fruit and the ends two bottles of random chili lime sauce. Really good, but never to see daylight again (I'm still revelling in the space opened up in the fridge!--and the chicken was really good). I'm pretty sure I have made up how to do something I'd seen on TV, but can't call an instance to mind today.

Your peppers look good! Seeing them on the preview made me think I should replant banana peppers. My little bush bit it in a cold snap a few years ago.
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annie1992
6 years ago
Lars, those look perfect. Are they sweet banana peppers or the hot ones? I'm such a coward about hot peppers, but the sweet ones would be right up my alley.

Annie
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Lars
Original Author
6 years ago
They are sweet ones - not really any heat at all. I bought them at the Farmers' Market in Mar Vista.
foodonastump
6 years ago
They look good to me, too! I used to watch DDD a lot, and often took notes as best as I could (having rewind helps a lot!) because you don't know what recipes they'll post online. And even when they do, they can vary significantly from what's on TV. For the most part I've had success.

Lars I'm not sure I understand your last paragraph. Do you literally mean recipe, or do you mean trying something entirely foreign to you based on seeing it on TV? Regardless, my answer is "yes".
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Lars
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6 years ago
FOAS, if I see an odd combination of ingredients on TV, I am not likely to make that recipe unless I taste it in a restaurant first. I'll have to think of examples - none come to mind at this moment. If it is a particular single ingredient that I have not tasted, then I will make an effort to taste that for myself, but it is combinations that I find I often do not like and therefore do not try on my own until I have had them somewhere else first. A lot of them I have already tried and discovered that I do not like, such as nutmeg with spinach. I am more open to totally foreign recipes, however.

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