Sausage Popper-Stuffed Peppers

Poblano peppers are stuffed popper-style with a cream cheese mixture and sausage in this quick and easy weeknight dish that serves as an appetizer or main course.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 25 mins
• Total Time: 35 mins
• Calories: 501 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 pound bulk pork sausage
• ½ (8 ounce) package shredded pepper Jack cheese
• 1 teaspoon ground fennel seeds, or more to taste
• 1 teaspoon dried sage, or more to taste
• 5 poblano peppers, halved

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir sausage with fennel, sage, salt, and pepper in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.

Step 3

Place peppers into a baking dish. Spread 1/2 to 1 ounce cream cheese into each pepper. Add sausage mixture to each pepper and sprinkle with pepper Jack cheese.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until softened and bubbly, about 20 minutes.