Here’s What You Do with Banana Peppers

Published on Thursday, July 21, 2011, by Caitlin McGrath / Edit Post

Hot or sweet banana peppers are zingy and versatile. Pickled, they are delicious in sandwiches, salads, or on pizza, or chop them finely and add to meatloaf and turkey burgers. LaLa dips them in beer batter and deep-fries them.

Many hounds stuff banana peppers. Rick uses this recipe and says it will stuff three to four pounds of peppers, which "freeze extremely well and are great over pasta."

Also very popular is stuffing the peppers, wrapping them in pastry, and baking. renwill cuts the tops off the peppers, makes a slit down one side, removes the seeds, stuffs them with browned bulk sausage mixed with cheese sauce, wraps them in refrigerated crescent roll dough, and bakes. "These are simply delicious," he says. Other hounds use puff pastry to wrap the peppers, and stuff them with everything from goat cheese to Thai larb gai (a spicy ground chicken dish).

Banana peppers are good raw, too. "For a quick snack we like to split in half, wash and clean [then] stuff with cream cheese or pimento cheese," says debbysdelights.

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  • My mother-in-law who grows them by the hundreds, puts them in everything. she has both hot and mild. I love it when she cuts the top off and scoops out the seeds, then stuffs them with a mixture of ricotta and egg and plugs the end with a square of bread. She then roasts them in the oven with a light coating of olive oil on them. You could add whatever seasonings and herbs you like to the...+READ

    My mother-in-law who grows them by the hundreds, puts them in everything. she has both hot and mild. I love it when she cuts the top off and scoops out the seeds, then stuffs them with a mixture of ricotta and egg and plugs the end with a square of bread. She then roasts them in the oven with a light coating of olive oil on them. You could add whatever seasonings and herbs you like to the stuffing mixture.-COLLAPSE

  • I bought 8 pepper plants. All were supposed to be Mucho Nachos. I ended up with 2 Banana Pepper plants. My daughter eats them right off the vine! Very fresh taste.