Roasted Pizza Peppers

Ingredients

• 6 fresh Italian or Anaheim peppers. These are thin skin peppers
• which work best for this recipe
• 1 cup marinara sauce. recipe attached below or your favorite
• 3 cup shredded Italian four cheese
• blend
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp granulated garlic or garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning spice blend
• 18 slices of pepperoni
• 1 Extra Marinara for Serving

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Spray a baking dish or sheet pan lightly with non stick spray.
3. Put peppers whole in one layer on prepared pan.
4. Roast peppers in oven on prepared pan until tender but still holding their shape
5. Cut a slit in the top of each pepper and remove seeds.
6. Put about 2 tablespoons.marinara sauce in the bottom of each pepper
7. In a bowl combine shredded cheese with pepper, granulatedgarlic and Italian seasoning.
8. Fill.each pepper with cheese mixture.
9. Top.each pepper with 3 pepperoni slices.
10. Keep pepperoni in place with toothpicks
11. Bake on a foil.lined.baking sheet, sprayed with non stick spray.
12. Have the oven at 400.
13. Bake about 15 minutes until cheese is melted and peppers,are hot.
14. Serve with additional marinara sauce if you like.