Goat Cheese Peppers

Roasted Goat Cheese Peppers

This one was fun, very easy, and DANGEROUSLY good! 

I love goat cheese to start out with so if you don't, this probably isn't for you! To make these delicious puppies, I picked up a bunch of the little sweet peppers and some goat cheese from the store (not the hot pepper kind - the baby bell pepper or sweet pepper kind). Here's a quick run down of the steps: 

Getting the peppers ready:
1. Cut the top off of each pepper and clean out the seeds. 
2. Lightly coat the peppers in olive oil (a spray olive oil works great too). 
3. Put the peppers in the broiler (or on the grill) long enough to soften them up just a bit and until you start to see them turn a little brown in spots. 

Goat cheese prep: 
You can do so many variations with the goat cheese! Really, you can mix in whatever flavors you think you'll like. I made two varieties this time; one with jalapeno and one with Italian seasonings. Here's what I did: 

1. Chop half a yellow onion, mince 1 clove of garlic, and cook these in a little olive oil until the onions are translucent. 
2. Split the goat cheese (already softened/at room temp) between two plastic zipper bags (I used two since I made two types of peppers and the ziplic bags make it really easy to fill the peppers.)
3. Split the onion/garlic mix between the plastic bags (be sure you let it cool for a few minutes or you'll melt your plastic bags)
4. Add any seasonings you want to the goat cheese mixes. In one bag, I added some chopped jalapeno and in the other I used basil, oregano, and parsley if I remember correctly. 
5. Use your hands to squeeze the ingredients around in the bag until it's mixed well. Then use scissors to cut off the tip of one corner on the bag. Then you can squeeze the mixture out of the ziploc bag into the peppers easy and clean!). 
6. Once all the peppers are filled - you can either pop them back in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes to warm through before serving or you can put them in the refrigerator to reheat and serve later. 

These were fun to make and so tasty. It was hard to not eat all of them at once!! These are good for a big group so you HAVE to share. :)