peppers

Instead of stuffing your peppers with meat, try stuffing them with a flavorful tuna filling. This recipe is light, great for summer entertaining, easy to make and has few ingredients. Now when you see those lovely sweet (or hot) banana peppers at the farmers market bring them home and make this fun fish alternative. Let’s Cook!

Tuna Stuffed Peppers

Servings: 4
Difficulty: easy
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An alternative to meat stuffed peppers, light, easy and flavorful

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup of canned tuna, oil or water

4-6 depending on size, long, sweet or hot banana peppers

1 cup of ricotta cheese

1/2 cup of breadcrumbs (depending on the moisture of the ricotta you might need to add more)

1/2 cup Parmesan Reggiano

2 cloves of garlic

1 egg

1 1/2 cup easy tomato sauce

1/2 lb fresh Mozzarella cheese

Fresh thyme to taste

Sea salt and ground pepper to taste

Directions

-Preheat oven to 350F

-Clean and cut the pepper in half, if the peppers are large you can fill whole

-Drain the tuna and put in a mixing bowl, add the ricotta, garlic, parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, egg, thyme, salt and pepper mix well. If the mixture is too wet to hold a shape, add more bread crumbs and or parmesan cheese

-Fill the peppers with the tuna mixture