Ingredients
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16 ounces white button mushrooms, chopped small
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3 -4 tablespoons olive oil
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1 teaspoon kosher salt
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1/2 teaspoon black pepper
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3 tablespoons chopped fresh mixed Italian herbs (may use basil or oregano, etc.)
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8 ounces ricotta cheese
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2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
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3/4 cup parmesan cheese or 3/4 cup asiago cheese
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wooden toothpick (as needed)
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4 large bell peppers (may mix colors)
Instructions
- Preheat broiler in oven.
- Place peppers on foil on a baking sheet and place under broiler.
- Turn peppers as the blacken, to darken all sides.
- When skin blisters and blackens all over, remove from oven and place peppers in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
- Allow peppers to sit undisturbed for 10-15 minutes to soften skins.
- Meanwhile, cook mushrooms in oil until soft and tender, seasoning with salt, pepper, and herbs.
- Drain off any excess water that releases from mushrooms and allow to cool.
- Mix ricotta in a small bowl with dijon mustard until smooth.
- Add mushrooms to this mixture (when cool) and stir.
- Rinse peppers under cool water (especially if they are still warm- to keep from burning your hands) and peel away loose skin.
- Make a slit along the side of each pepper, and using knife to cut close to the stem on the inside, remove seed cluster.
- Rinse pepper to remove any stray seeds.
- Fill each pepper with a portion of the ricotta mixture, and skewer the pepper closed with one or more toothpicks.
- Gently place pepper on foil on a baking sheet.
- Sprinkle tops of peppers with grated cheese.
- If you have any leftover filling (depending on your pepper's size) you may want to place this in an ovenproof ramekin and sprinkle with grated cheese as well.
- Broil peppers for 3-5 minutes (ramekin as well, if using), or until cheese lightly browns and filling is warmed through.
- Serve hot.