Stuffed Peppers with Cream cheese, Garlic, Lemon Zest and Cilantro

This is another recipe that can be served as an appetizer or entrée.

Ingredients:

1 Banana or Anaheim Pepper per person

Tempura flour ,Panko bread crumbs or regular bread crumbs.

Buttermilk for the batter

Olive Oil

To make the filling:

1 Box of Cream Cheese

2 Tablespoons of Garlic(pre-cut)

The Zest of 1 Lemon

1 Bunch of Cilantro (For Spaniards if you don't like its flavor, don't add it or find a substitute like parsley)

Mix everything very well. 

This mix makes about 5 peppers. 

From left to right, Tempura, Panko Crumbs, and Bread crumbs batter

I used Banana or Anaheim Peppers, for this recipe. Put the peppers in a pre-heated oven at 375˚ until you see the skin bubble, then when they are done wrap them in a plastic wrap, put them aside to cool off. In the meantime make the mix for the filling and put some cherry tomatoes in the broiler with a little olive oil.
Take the tomatoes out when they start getting brown, drizzle with olive oil and a pinch of sea salt.


When the peppers are at a temperature that you are able to work with, take the skin and the seeds out, leaving if possible the stem and start filling the peppers with the mix one at a time. When you have all of them filled. Put 2 plates out, one with the buttermilk in it and the other with tempura flour. Dip the peppers in the buttermilk then in the tempura, and put them in the refrigerator, before dinner dip them again in buttermilk and then tempura. If you prefer Panko bread crumbs or regular bread crumbs, just substitude the tempura, and dip first in buttermilk and then the crumbs, the second time deep them in egg, instead of buttermilk, and then the crumbs.


Tempura is a soft wheat flour introduced to Japan by the Portuguese. It is mixed with cold water. As you can see, I didn't follow the traditional tempura of mixing the liquid with the solid.


The cilantro is a plant from Southern Europe and Northern Africa and it was introduce to the Americas by the Spaniards; However, They are not fan of this flavor, so, substitute by parsley or don't put any at all.