Hot Pepper Sandwich

Name: Hot Pepper Sandwich
Yield: 1 or 2 portions
Ingredients: 1 sweet banana (Hungarian wax) pepper; 1 scallion (green onion), white bulb and 3 inches green; 2 ounces Jarlsberg cheese, shredded (¾ cup); 1 mildly hot long chile pepper; 1 scallion (green onion), white bulb and 3 inches green; 1 small loaf French or Italian bread; 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, at room temperature; Freshly ground black pepper, to taste; 1 small loaf French or Italian bread

Preparation info

1 or 2
portions

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

About

Instead of the hot red cherry peppers we remember in sausage and pepper sandwiches, here a hot chile is tempered (but not too much) by a sweet banana pepper and nutty Jarlsberg cheese.

Ingredients

1 sweet banana (Hungarian wax) pepper
1 mildly hot long chile pepper
1 scallion (green onion), whit

Side dish
Vegetarian
Spicy

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Slice the banana pepper in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. Slice it crosswise into thin strips. Seed and chop the chile pepper. Thinly slice the scallion.
Combine the peppers, scallion, cheese, and black peppe