Bob’s Stuffed Banana Pepper

Bob’s stuffed banana peppers are filled with delectable Italian sausages and rich tomato sauce.

Here’s its easy-to-follow recipe to try and trust us, you wouldn’t get enough of this yummy dish!

Health Benefits

Banana peppers are much more than simply providing you with its tangy flavor. The member of the chili pepper family helps boost your mood. So, whenever you feel down you can bake yourself some delicious Bob’s stuffed banana peppers.

Banana peppers help detox the body. They act as an anti- inflammatory agent.

Eating banana pepper will surely provide you with other numerous benefits as it aids in proper digestion, improves the heart health, promotes weight loss, and reduces the symptoms of cold or sinuses.

Ingredients

banana peppers: 8

Butter: 2 tbsp

finely chopped onion: 1/2 cup

finely chopped celery: 1/2 cup

crushed tomatoes: 1 can

tomato sauce: 1 can

minced garlic cloves: 2

dried basil: 1 tsp

Dried oregano: 1 tsp

large egg: 1

salt: 2 1/2 tsp

ground black pepper: 1/2 tsp

Worcestershire sauce: 1 tsp

grated parmesan cheese: 1/2 cup

hot Italian sausage: 1 pound

mild Italian sausage: 1 pound

bread crumbs: 1 1/2 cups

How To Make Bob’s Stuffed Banana Pepper

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F or 175 degrees C.
2. Cut off the tops of banana peppers, and remove the ribs and seeds. Set them aside.
3. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add banana peppers in it. Reduce the heat. Simmer until tender and firm. This will take 5 to 6 minutes. Drain and set it aside.
4. Now heat butter in a medium skillet. Add reserved chopped banana peppers, onions and celery until tender, for 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, and garlic cloves. Season with the basil leaves, oregano, salt and pepper. Let it simmer without a lid on, for 10 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, combine an egg, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and Parmesan cheese in a large mixing bowl.
7. Add in the hot Italian sausages, mild Italian sausages, bread crumbs and tomato sauce mixture.
8. With the help of a piping bag or a sausage stuffer, fill each of the pepper with the meat mixture.
9. Place them in a baking dish and pour the remaining tomato sauce over the banana peppers.
10. Bake them in the pre-heated oven for an hour.
11. Once properly baked, take them out of the oven. Transfer them into a serving dish, and enjoy!

Trivia

• Banana peppers are light green, orange, red and yellow in color.
• They have an oblong shape with pointed tips.

The banana pepper are most commonly found in America. But banana peppers and other peppers in the chili family have spread across the entire world.