Roasted Peppers Parmesan makes a delightful simple lunch or tasty side dish. Try them them for breakfast or brunch with eggs!
Our Reader, Mandee had this to say: “I saw this on Pinterest today and sent it to my friend. She made it for dinner tonight and RAVED about it! I can’t wait to try it for myself!”
Roasted Peppers Parmesan are sweet roasted peppers filled with bacon, sun dried tomatoes, and parmesan cheese. Drizzled with balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with fresh oregano for a healthy, easy, tasty dish
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We are so excited when our lovely fresh peppers ripen in the greenhouse and garden. Dave starts the pepper seed as early as he can, and babies his pepper starts through the spring. He carefully transplants and nurtures them through summer and into late Fall. He’s picked up some useful tips about growing peppers over the years.
Dave’s success in the greenhouse is beyond belief! We have overflowing baskets of peppers all over the house from Fall to New Years. Several gallon bags are dried or roasted and frozen (Learn how here). Lots more homegrown peppers are in our chili and my Roasted Pepper Cheese Fondue sauce.
Our homegrown fresh pepper supply dwindles away after the first of the year. We use our frozen and dried peppers in the long winter and early spring months. It’s a long dry spell from fresh peppers every year.
Krimson Lee Peppers are a really good roasting pepper. They are sweet and have a heat scale similar to pasilla peppers.
Making meals from all these beauties is my challenge. I welcome it. This recipe is my own inspiration. It’s SO good! I have been dreaming about roasting peppers and filling them with an excellent parmesan cheese, our Homemade sun dried tomatoes and drizzling them with balsamic vinegar…and fresh herbs… That’s how this recipe came into being. Just a bit of kitchen tinkering. It turned out fabulous!
A delicious light lunch!
TAKE NOTE: These are a very flavorful but mild roasting variety. Krimson Lees can have a bit of heat raw. Deseeded and roasted they sweeten up and give that unique smoky roasted pepper flavor a sweet bell pepper CANNOT give!
Use the best roasting peppers and a fresh block of real parmesan cheese for this recipe.
To experience the flavor of this and all roasted pepper dishes as they should be, go get good roasting peppers! For all you pepper freaks out there, you know what I’m talking about. But if all you’ve ever stuffed was a sweet bell…a whole new world awaits!
And then there are the tomatoes….
Homemade Sun Dried tomatoes are Delicious and taste like they just came out of an Italian farm. Full of fresh herbs and high grade olive oil. Beats store bought in price and flavor!
Gardeners and Farmers Market fans know that fresh produce is amazingly flavorful. I made this batch of homemade Sun dried Tomatoes just to see if I could. Never going back to store bought. The flavor is amazing!
Making Roasted Peppers Parmesan is easy!
This tasty dish takes about 20 minutes tops! You can make these for a large crowd easily. they would be a fantastic side dish, light lunch or appetizer. the peppers can easily be grilled if you would rather. Here is how I did four of them.
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- 1/2 Slice of fried bacon per pepper with a bit of garlic per pepper.
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- We love these tasty roasting peppers. Any Poblano type pepper would be fine.
Roasted Peppers Parmesan Recipe:
Instructions for the filling and pepper prep:
- Preheat your oven to 400 convection roast or broil on high heat.
- Start your bacon frying
- slice your peppers lengthwise, deseed them
- Place the peppers on an ungreased baking tray and put in in the oven (middle rack) for 3 to 5 minutes.
- add the garlic to the bacon
- Shred your parmesan cheese
- check the peppers. They should be slightly blacked as pictured, but NOT mushy we don’t want the skins off! Turn them over and slightly black the other side. About another three minutes in the oven.
- Crush your croutons and set out the tomatoes.
- Remove the peppers from the oven, leaving them on the tray and the oven ON. Remove the bacon from heat.
Stuff the peppers as follows:
- Sprinkle a liberal layer of parmesan on each pepper,
- lay a cooked piece of bacon and garlic on each pepper.
- lay several pieces of sun dried tomatoes on the bacon
- Sprinkle more parmesan on top.
- Finish with crushed croutons crumbled over the cheese
- Return the peppers to the oven for about three minutes until the top is crusted and slightly browned.
- Serve with balsamic vinegar and fresh oregano and garnish to taste.
The balsamic vinegar wakes up those delicious flavors. A satisfying meal
Roasted peppers parmesan makes a great lunch or Roast up a batch for a party. These are SO good!
Roasted Pepper Parmesan
Total Time: 20 minutes
Number of servings: 8
Ingredients
- 4 Large Mild (or hot if you prefer) roasting peppers sliced and deseeded
- 2 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 2 large bacon strips, cut in half
- 2 garlic cloves sliced, to taste
- 1 Cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 1/2 Cup Focaccia croutons roughly crushed
- 1/2 Cup dried tomatoes ( we are using our own sun dried recipe)
- 2 Tablespoons Fresh oregano for garnish
Instructions
- Lay the sliced, deseeded peppers onto a baking sheet.
- Put under the broiler for 5 minutes or until barely blackened, turn the peppers, and blacken the other side for a few minutes. Do not let them cook to mushy!
- Meanwhile, set a skillet on medium and put the four half long pieces of bacon and the garlic into the pan. Cook until the bacon is medium crispy. (To taste)
- When the peppers are broiled to just barely blackened, remove from oven.
- lay the parmesan inside the pocket, then add the bacon, sun dried tomatoes, garlic add more parmesan on top.
- Heavily sprinkle the crushed croutons over the parmesan.
- Return to the oven on broil until the cheese and croutons get a light crispy brown.
- Serve at table with balsamic drizzled over the peppers, to taste. Sprinkle with fresh oregano as desired.
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Jami
Simple and yummy sounding – my favorite recipe combo! I love roasted peppers, too. 🙂
Diane
Us too. One of our favorite types of peppers.
Shelly
Tinkering in the kitchen comes up with so many great recipes. This is one we will have to try once we have peppers out of our garden.
Diane
I have some really good kitchen fun at harvest time. This recipe turned out so good! I hope you try it.
Patti
Oh wow! These sound delicious. I’m putting this on my list of goodies to make on vacation. My brothers and sister and I share a beach house every year and we all like to eat so this will be something new and I’m sure a big hit!
Diane
Oh I am so envious! Nothing better than family parties at the beach! Enjoy!
lalaine
We’re going to have a little get together at home this week, these stuffed peppers are definitely joining us 🙂
Richard Covert
Pined it. Mouthwatering. Only 14 carbs
homemadefoodjunkie
thank you Chrissie. they make a wonderful light meal or appetizer
homemadefoodjunkie
This is a great harvest time recipe, Trish. That browned crunchy parmesan cheese is perfect with the sun dried tomatoes, bacon and peppers!
Michelle Blackwood
You are so fortunate to have a greenhouse, nothing like growing your own veggies!
Sabrina @ Dinner, then Dessert
I’m happy your greenhouse has been so successful! I’d love to start growing my own ingredients someday!
homemadefoodjunkie
I hope you can Sabrina, We love our garden and greenhouse
Whitney
So nice to have some FRESH peppers at the house — these look incredible!
Katalina @ Peas & Peonies
I love roasted red peppers, they become so tender and so sweet, and anything is better with cheese so hooray for parmesan!
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Richa
Oooh bacon makes everything better. Those look fantastic!
homemadefoodjunkie
Yes Richa the bacon is a nice touch in these peppers.
rachel @ atheltic avocado
this looks like an amazing appetizer! yum!
Jessica
So delicious! My parents’ garden is producing a lot of peppers and we have been running out of ideas — adding this to the list!
Oana @AdoreFoods
I love the flavor of roasted peppers, your recipe takes me back in time. Such a simple but amazing dish. Thanks for sharing it!
homemadefoodjunkie
It is simple, and the flavors work so well together. thank you for the visit Oana!
marye
These peppers look so good. Roasting brings out so much more flavor!
homemadefoodjunkie
I was really delighted by the flavor of these roasted peppers Marye!
Kelley
I didn’t know that spicy pepper mellow out and sweeten with roasting- how cool! Thanks for sharing and I am going to try it out for sure!
homemadefoodjunkie
They do kelley, provided you deseed them before roasting!
Mandee Pogue
Diane, I saw this on Pinterest today and sent it to my friend. She made it for dinner tonight and RAVED about it! I can’t wait to try it for myself!
homemadefoodjunkie
That’s wonderful news Mandee! Thank you so much for stopping by to share! Tell your friend I am delighted she loves at much as we do!
shobelyn
What a good appetizer
Hillary Reeves
I’ve made lots of stuffed peppers, but never like this! I LOVE the idea to put bacon on these and I have a bunch of stale focaccia on the counter. I am absolutely trying this this weekend!
Tina Marie
We just picked some of these peppers today, along with some fresh tomatoes from our backyard garden! These look amazing.
Ciao Florentina
Roasting peppers is a favorite past time for me. That smell, the smokey flavors, the comfort, perfection ! I love this long red variety , makes a fantastic pepper sauce as well. Nice job !
homemadefoodjunkie
HaHa Florentina! I made a pepper sauce with these peppers that was indeed excellent. But a might spicy for us. Next time I’ll take out those hot seeds!
Chris @ SimpleFood365
Those are just plain gorgeous! Yummy!
molly kumar
This looks so easy and great for a snack or quick appetizer.
homemadefoodjunkie
It is easy and this recipe would make excellent appetizers, Molly!
Claudia | Gourmet Project
anything with parmesan on top is good for me, but these look spectacular!
homemadefoodjunkie
Thank you Claudia. They are so tasty!I love the crunchy croutons melted into the topping
foodlovinfamily
Going to have to try these for football season. Thanks for sharing.
homemadefoodjunkie
They would be perfect for a party, FoodlovinFamily
Renee
These look like they’re a tasty appetizer! We’d love them!
Sam @ PancakeWarriors
Wow love this! I can’t wait to serve the to Dave, I’m always looking for a way to get him more veggies!
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Yum…these do look delicious. One of my favorite summer time treats. 🙂
Razena | Tantalisemytastebuds.com
This sounds like the perfect party snack.
Sarah
I love the croutons and the bacon pieces in the stuffed peppers – how could anyone not love this?
sara @LifesLittlesweets.com
Ohh, this looks so good! I also love your photographs!
Erin @ Platings and Pairings
The ingredients in this dish sound fabulous! Bacon, cheese and foccacia! Yes please!
homemadefoodjunkie
It is really tasty Erin. The Balsmic vinegar brings it all together beautifully