Italian Stuffed Peppers with a Creamy Alfredo Sauce

Can I just say I am of the opinion that red peppers are one of the most photogenic vegetables ever?  Not to mention one of our favorite tasting.  Poor little green bell pepper….Bless your little heart, we’ve moved on from you….  Any time a recipe calls for a bell pepper, we go straight for the red one.

Moving on….. I never quite know what to do with leftover stuffing from Thanksgiving.  I mean, it tastes great, but just starts to get dry no matter how well you seal the storage container.  So for part two of our Thanksgiving journey, I decided to take a walk on the Italian side and utilize those leftover bread cubes and vegetables to create a new stuffing for a tasty, red bell pepper meal.  This meal is worth making any time- I think you’ll agree.  Here we go!

Top 3 Ways to Transform Thanksgiving Leftovers into an Ethnic Meal Part 2: Italian Stuffed Peppers with a Creamy Alfredo Sauce

 

Author: Gary @ The Spice Kit Recipes

Recipe type: Dinner

Cuisine: Italian

Prep time:  25 mins

Cook time:  1 hour

Total time:  1 hour 25 mins

Print

Ingredients

• Peppers
• 4 red bell peppers
• 3 cups leftover stuffing mix
• ¾ lb. sweet Italian sausage, preferably already ground
• 1½ cups crushed tomatoes
• 2 tbsp. Romano cheese, grated
• ½ cup water
• Alfredo Sauce
• 2 tbsps. butter
• 2 tbsps. flour
• 2 cups light cream
• ½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
• ¼ tsp. nutmeg
• 2 tbsp. parsley, chopped
• salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Brown sausage in skillet over medium heat.
2. In a large bowl, combine browned sausage, stuffing mix, ½ cup crushed tomatoes and Romano cheese. Mix well
3. Cut tops off of each pepper and cut out as much of the membrane as possible; rinse out seeds
4. Stuff each pepper to the top with stuffing mixture
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
6. In roasting pan, combine the remaining 1 cup of crushed tomatoes and water; mix well
7. Place peppers in roasting pan standing upright. Cover, place in oven and roast for 1 hour.
8. Alfredo Sauce
9. Melt butter in pan over medium heat
10. Turn heat off and add flour; whisk together with butter to form a roux
11. Add cream to roux and whisk until combined and smooth
12. Turn heat to medium and whisk mixture constantly until cream thickens to desired consistency.
13. Turn off heat and add Parmesan cheese, parsley, nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste. Mix until combined well and smooth
14. Remove peppers from pan, top with Alfredo sauce and serve

Notes

If you can only find Italian sausage links, just cut the casing and remove the meat.

3.2.2124