Jalapeno garlic cream cheese and bacon stuffed sweet peppers

Ingredients:

12 baby bell peppers cut lengthwise and seeded

2 teaspoons olive oil

8 oz package jalapeno cream cheese (if you don't like spicy you can use regular cream cheese) 

2 stalks green onion finely chopped

1 clove garlic minced

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sriracha

Ground black pepper

1 tbsp bacon pieces

Shredded cheese (I used Colby Jack)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cut the bell peppers lengthwise, remove the seeds and stems. Lightly oil the bell peppers by tossing them in a bowl with some grapeseed oil or olive oil. Place the peppers on a baking sheet skin-side down. Roast in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the edges begin to show some color. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.

While the peppers are roasting, prepare your stuffing. Place the cream cheese, garlic, salt, sriracha and black pepper in a bowl and mix until creamy. Add the green onion and bacon. Fold in to the cream cheese until combined. Test the cream cheese for flavor. If you would like, add more salt and/or sriracha.

Heat your oven to 400 degrees. Use a spoon (or a piping bag) to stuff the peppers liberally and place them back on the baking sheet. Sprinkled with shredded cheese.  Bake about 8 minutes. Change oven setting to high broil and bake an additional 2 minutes, until the tops of the cream cheese begin to brown (If they’re already brown at this point, skip the broiling).

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