Italian Rolled Peppers With Mushrooms and Ricotta
Recipe: #8282
February 26, 2013
Categories: Side Dishes, Cheese, Peppers, Italian, Diabetic, Low Carbohydrate, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Dinner, Italian Dinner, more
"Makes a wonderful low-carb, meatless entree or can be used as a side dish for pasta, etc. Perfect for dieters and vegetarians alike."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (384.8 g)
- Calories 905.5
- Total Fat - 65.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 19.5 g
- Cholesterol - 93.6 mg
- Sodium - 30639.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 40.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4 g
- Sugars - 0.7 g
- Protein - 37.1 g
- Calcium - 478.9 mg
- Iron - 3 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.8 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat broiler in oven.
Step 2
Place peppers on foil on a baking sheet and place under broiler.
Step 3
Turn peppers as the blacken, to darken all sides.
Step 4
When skin blisters and blackens all over, remove from oven and place peppers in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
Step 5
Allow peppers to sit undisturbed for 10-15 minutes to soften skins.
Step 6
Meanwhile, cook mushrooms in oil until soft and tender, seasoning with salt, pepper, and herbs.
Step 7
Drain off any excess water that releases from mushrooms and allow to cool.
Step 8
Mix ricotta in a small bowl with dijon mustard until smooth.
Step 9
Add mushrooms to this mixture (when cool) and stir.
Step 10
Rinse peppers under cool water (especially if they are still warm- to keep from burning your hands) and peel away loose skin.
Step 11
Make a slit along the side of each pepper, and using knife to cut close to the stem on the inside, remove seed cluster.
Step 12
Rinse pepper to remove any stray seeds.
Step 13
Fill each pepper with a portion of the ricotta mixture, and skewer the pepper closed with one or more toothpicks.
Step 14
Gently place pepper on foil on a baking sheet.
Step 15
Sprinkle tops of peppers with grated cheese.
Step 16
If you have any leftover filling (depending on your pepper's size) you may want to place this in an ovenproof ramekin and sprinkle with grated cheese as well.
Step 17
Broil peppers for 3-5 minutes (ramekin as well, if using), or until cheese lightly browns and filling is warmed through.
Tips
- Wooden toothpicks (as needed)