Linda0818
Head Chef
For a little different stuffed pepper flavor, use a mixture of Italian sausage, hot or mild as you prefer, and add sage to the uncooked sausage meat. Mix in ground beef to the ratio of two parts beef, and 1 part sausage.
Combine with cooked rice and marinara sauce (just enough sauce to flavor the meat/rice mixture. Stuff the red, yellow, or orange bell pepper, and roast in marinara sauce until the meat is cooked through and the peppers are soft.
If stuffing poblanos, change the stuffing to 2 parts ground beef to 1 part chorizo. Add extra cumin to the meat mixture, and hot sauce to taste. Mix this mixture with crushed tortilla chips, and a cream, good melting cheese such queso Blanche, or a creamy brie, or even raclete. A good blue cheese would also be good with this mixture, as would crumbled feta. Just a couple more ideas for your pepper stuffings.
Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
That sounds delicious and I'm going to try it. Do you par-boil your peppers before you stuff them? I always have, simply because that's how I was taught by my mom. I boil them (once the tops are cut off and they're cleaned, of course) for 5 minutes, then set them in a strainer and run cold water over them to stop the cooking process.
I always wondered if that was a necessary step.