Taco Stuffed Banana Peppers
I received some beautiful banana peppers this week from the Seeing Hand community garden. Their director, Karen, had brought me veggies from the garden before, but this was my first time visiting. This week we held the United Way Sandy O’Haver Day of Caring. The Seeing Hand Association hosted volunteers that helped clean up the garden. Meredith walked me around, picked us some goodies and also clipped fresh herbs. I can’t wait to work them into come of recipes soon!
I generally make sausage stuffed peppers, but when you’re out of sausage and fully stocked with ground beef, you improvise. I seasoned the raw beef like I would taco meat. I used picante sauce in place of the marinara I would use for the sausage stuffed peppers. And I used cheddar cheese instead of mozzarella. I’m partial to the Italian stuffed, but these were pretty yummy with some sour cream and guacamole.
Ingredients:
- 6 banana peppers
- 1 lb of ground beef
- 1 cup of picante sauce or salsa
- 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
- Toppings of choice
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Cut peppers down the center and remove ribs and seeds.
- Mix raw ground beef with taco seasoning and half of the cheese.
- Stuff the peppers and with the meat and place in casserole dish.
- Top with picante sauce and the rest of the cheese.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
