Sausage Popper-Stuffed Peppers

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 5
Yield: 5 servings

Description

These stuffed poblano peppers with cream cheese, pepper Jack, and pork sausage are filled popper-style for a quick, easy appetizer or main course.

Ingredients

1 pound bulk pork sausage
1 teaspoon ground fennel seeds, or more to taste
1 teaspoon dried sage, or more to taste
salt and ground black pepper to taste
5 poblano peppers, halved
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1/2 (8 ounce) package shredded pepper Jack cheese

Directions

1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2 Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir sausage, fennel, sage, salt, and pepper in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
3 Place poblano peppers cut-side up into a baking dish. Spread about 3/4 ounce cream cheese into each pepper. Fill with sausage mixture and sprinkle with pepper Jack cheese.
4 Bake in the preheated oven until peppers are softened and filling is bubbly, about 20 minutes.