These stuffed sweet peppers will become your new go-to-appetizer! Filled with flavorful cheese and topped with bread crumbs, you won’t believe how easy they are to put together.
Garlic and Herb Stuffed Mini Peppers
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 1 hr 5 min
- Servings 32
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 16 mini sweet peppers (red, yellow and orange)
- 1 package (5.2 oz) Boursin® cheese with garlic and fine herbs, softened
- 4 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
- 1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1/2 cup Progresso™ plain panko crispy bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese (2 oz)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking spray.
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Step2Cut each sweet pepper in half lengthwise, leaving stems intact. Remove seeds and membranes. Place halved sweet peppers on pan, cut sides up.
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Step3In small bowl, mix Boursin™ cheese, cream cheese and ground red pepper with spoon until well blended. Place cheese mixture in small resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut 1/2 inch off 1 corner of bag. Pipe mixture evenly among pepper halves, about 2 teaspoons for each pepper.
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Step4In another small bowl, mix bread crumbs, melted butter and pepper. Sprinkle each pepper half with about 1/2 teaspoon bread crumb mixture; gently press into cheese mixture.
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Step5Bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven, and sprinkle about 1/2 teaspoon Parmesan cheese on each pepper. Return to oven; bake 5 to 8 minutes or until tops are brown and cheese is melted. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Top with chives. Serve warm.
Nutrition
60
Calories
4 1/2g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
4g
Total Carbohydrate
2g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 60
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 7%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 14%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 75mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 90mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 4g
- 1%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 2g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 25%
- 25%
- Vitamin C
- 40%
- 40%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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