Fresh Banana Peppers filled with a creamy cheesy spread and rolled into crispy crunchy breadcrumbs. These Baked Banana Pepper Poppers are a quick and easy favorite.
¼teaspoonpaprikapaprika for more smokey flavor or use cayenne pepper for some more spice
For the Poppers:
7banana peppers
1cupmilk
1cupall-purpose flour
2eggswhisked
1cupbread crumbsI used garlic and herb for some added flavor
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl, mix the first 5 ingredients together to get your cream cheese filling. Set aside.
Clean Your Banana Peppers with cold water. Set them aside to dry.
Once dry, slice the tops of each pepper. (just the top end) Next, slice the banana peppers in half lengthwise. Try to make as straight a cut as you can to end at the tip.Next scrape out all the little seeds. Do this part gently, because the banana peppers are fragile, you can easily split them or tear them.
Fill each banana pepper halve with cheese mixture.
Cover them and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
Once chilled, dip the banana peppers into milk, then flour and set aside to dry about 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, dip them carefully into your beaten eggs, coating them entirely.
Transfer them immediately to the bread crumbs and gently coat them.
Transfer the bread crumb coated banana peppers to your baking sheet.
Put them into a 350 degree preheated oven and bake for 25-30 minutes.