Stuffed Piquillo Peppers

Name: Stuffed Piquillo Peppers
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish or starter, 2 as a main course
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: juice of 1 lime; 150 g (5½ oz) mozzarella cheese, cut into small dice; 2 spring onions, green parts only, finely chopped; 3 tbsp. finely chopped fresh coriander leaves; 90 g (3¼ oz) couscous; salt and black pepper; 4 piquillo peppers

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a side dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

I like the long, tapered, sweet piquillo peppers that are now quite widely available. However, if you can’t find any, use ordinary red peppers. Here, I’ve dubbed them up with some Caribbean flavourings and topped them with melting mozzarella cheese.

Ingredients

4 piquillo peppers
90 g (3¼ oz) couscous
3

Americas
Jamaica
Side dish
Vegetarian
Spicy
Caribbean

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Trim the peppers by cutting out the green stalk and scraping out the seeds through the stalk hole. Rinse the insides with water. Place the peppers on a baking sheet and