Best Chicken Sausage Stuffed Peppers Recipes

SPICY MEDITERRANEAN CHICKEN WITH SAUSAGE-STUFFED CHERRY PEPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place chicken thighs in a large bowl; season with black pepper, cumin, and 1 teaspoon salt. Set aside.
• Stuff each cherry pepper generously with Italian sausage. Set aside.
• Heat olive oil in Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Place chicken thighs, skin-side down, in pan and brown, about 5 minutes. Turn chicken over and brown other side, about 1 minute. Remove chicken from pan.
• Cook onion in the Dutch oven with pinch of salt over medium-high heat; cook and stir until caramelized, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium; stir in garlic, herbes de Provence, and crushed red pepper.
• Stir in pepperoncini and juices; cook until warmed through, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Place chicken, skin-side up, in a single layer on top of the onions and pepperoncinis in the Dutch oven. Pour stock into the pan until almost covering the chicken.
• Sprinkle artichoke hearts, olives, and stuffed cherry peppers over top of chicken.
• Return to medium-high heat and bring to a simmer.
• Cover and roast in preheated oven until sausage is cooked through and liquid is bubbling, about 1 hour.
• Garnish with chopped basil, oregano, and marjoram.

STUFFED BANANA PEPPERS WITH QUINOA AND CHICKEN SAUSAGE RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Chop the tops off the banana peppers and clean them of seeds by making a long slit down the side of the pepper lengthwise. Once water is boiling, add banana peppers and cook for 5 minutes. While peppers cook, rinse quinoa thoroughly in fine colander or sieve. Heat olive oil in a large, nonstick skillet over medium- high heat. Saute onion,sausage and orange pepper in hot oil until vegetables are tender and sausage is cooked, about ~10 minutes. Add garlic in last 3 minutes of cooking. Add half of crushed tomatoes, quinoa, chicken broth, basil, oregano and crushed red pepper flakes to the skillet. Bring to a boil; turn down heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Turn the heat off and mix in the cheese. Preheat broiler. Place 2-3 spoonfuls of remaining crushed tomatoes on bottom of a 13-by-9-inch glass baking dish. Place cooked, sliced open banana peppers into the dish. Stuff each pepper with about 3/4 cup of the sausage-quinoa mixture or enough to fill it. Divide what is remaining in the crushed tomatoes can across the tops of the six peppers, then top with a sprinkle of panko breadcrumbs. Brown under broiler.

CHICKEN SAUSAGE STUFFED PEPPERS

Steps:

• rinse rice thoroughly , brown half rice in butter. Add the rest of the rice, water and 1 can of tomato sauce. Mix. Bring to a boil, then turn heat down to low, simmer for 20 minute.
• remove casings from chicken sausages and pulse through food processor until ground. brown, add diced tomato and 1 can of tomato sauce. Mix and set aside.
• saute the diced pepper and onion , add to chicken and tomato mixture.
• add rice, mix well.
• Clean and stuff the remaining 5 peppers with rice mixture.
• mix together tomato paste, 1/2 can water, and ketchup and put on top of peppers
• bake in 350 degree oven , covered for 1 hour.