Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers

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Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers

These stuffed peppers are a little bit labour-intense, but completely worth it. They have it all: crunchiness, cheesiness, and spice. They would make the perfect starter to a New Year’s Eve party.

Meinhilde always brings a bag of mixed vegetables from her market, and this time she presented me with a bag of hot peppers. What on earth was I going to do with a whole bag? Then I remembered that last summer on the Island, we had barbecued peppers. They were delicious, but a bit too spicy ( I get terrible heartburn these days!). I scooped out all the seeds and membranes to reduce the spice and switched to turkey bacon to lower the grease factor. These alterations really balanced out the flavours and I ended up making this recipe three times in the last month!

Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers

Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers

Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers
 
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Ingredients
  • 9 hot peppers
  • ½ cup garlic cream cheese, or plain cheese mixed with half a garlic clove, minced
  • 6 strips of turkey bacon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375F
  2. Cut peppers in half lengthwise. Scoop out all seeds and white membranes. Avoid touching your face, especially your eyes, and wash your hands well immediately afterwards.
  3. Stuff about one teaspoon of cheese in the pepper. Repeat with remaining cheese and peppers.
  4. Slice each bacon strip lengthwise into three thinner strips. Wrap each bacon strip around a pepper and place in a heatproof dish.
  5. Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until bacon is crispy.

 

Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers

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One Reply to “Bacon Wrapped Garlic Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers”

  1. Yum Yum Yum!! I use to make something similar to this with shishito peppers over the summer but I may have to adopt this version for the winter when they aren’t in season. They look, sound, and seem like they would be right up my alley.

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