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This is an easy, vegetarian stuffed mini peppers the perfect snack or light lunch. These Vegetarian Stuffed Mini Peppers are roasted to perfection and stuffed with hummus and cheese. They only take 15 minutes to whip up in the air fryer or oven.
Why Make These Vegetarian Stuffed Mini Peppers?
They are full of flavor. These peppers use minimal ingredients. They take about 15 minutes to whip up.
These vegetarian mini peppers are a great way to get more veggies into your diet.
They make a great appetizer or light meal! Kids love them too.
You can use big bell peppers if you need to make a bigger snack.
Ingredients For Vegetarian Stuffed Mini Peppers.
I wasn’t kidding when I said minimal ingredients! This recipe calls for three main ingredients plus optional seasoning.
Mini Peppers: These little peppers are tasty. They have a light sweet flavor and are the perfect vessel for these ingredients. You will want to buy them fresh from the produce aisle at your local grocery store.
Hummus. Any flavor will do! You can also use white bean or black bean hummus. If you aren’t a fan of hummus you can use ricotta or another thick dip of choice. We just need a little!
Mozzarella or Feta. Or goat cheese or cheddar, really any cheese will work. Plant based cheese will also work or you can simple skip the cheese and just do hummus.
Seasonings. These are optional for after the vegetarian stuffed peppers are cooked. I use a little salt, oregano and fresh basil if I have any lying around. The peppers are great without this ingredient as well!
How To Make Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers.
Step 1. Cut the tops of the peppers off, discard the stems.
Step 2. Carefully slice a little slit in the peppers length wise. This will help to spread the ingredients in the peppers and keep the ingredients from overflowing out of the top of the pepper.
Step 3. With a butter knife, stuff peppers with about a dime size of hummus. A little goes a long way, try to spread it around the pepper as best as you can. Next, stuff the peppers with chopped cheese of choice.
Step 4. Lay peppers onto a sprayed piece of foil on a cooking sheet or into your air fryer. Be sure the slit side is facing up so they don’t spill out all over. Gently place them in the oven on broil high for about 10 minutes or on 375 in the air fryer for 8 minutes. Enjoy!
FAQ & Tips.
No you can make these stuffed vegetarian peppers with just hummus.
Really any cheese you love will work with this recipe.
About 3 days they will keep.
No problem, you can use any dip you like or you can skip the hummus and just use cheese and seasonings.
I prefer them in the air fryer, they really char up nicely. If you don’t have an air fryer, it is no problem, a toaster oven or oven will work just as well!
Be sure to let them cool a little before digging in.
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Vegetarian Stuffed Mini Peppers
Ingredients
- 1 lb Mini Peppers , * about one bag
- ¼ cup Hummus, you may have some leftover
- ¼ cup Mozzarella , *
Instructions
- Cut the tops of the peppers off, discard the stems.
- Carefully slice a little slit in the peppers length wise. This will help to spread the ingredients in the peppers and keep the ingredients from overflowing out of the top of the pepper.
- With a butter knife, stuff peppers with about a dime size of hummus. A little goes a long way, try to spread it around the pepper as best as you can. Next, stuff the peppers with chopped cheese of choice.
- Lay peppers onto a sprayed piece of foil on a cooking sheet or into your air fryer. Be sure the slit side is facing up so they don't spill out all over. Gently place them in the oven on broil high for about 10 minutes or on 375 in the air fryer for 8 minutes. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Those little sweet peppers are the best, they’re nice and sweet and great for dipping! I never thought of doing anything like your recipe though, sounds like a yummy idea.
Thanks girl! They are a great snack, I highly recommend it
So glad you put this on bro a blog post! I see you make them on IG and never remember the temperature settings. Delicious.
This was excellent I did feta with it. Will be making again.
Always looking for an easy snack like this! Great idea.
So good!