Alien BBQ's Creole Stuffed Peppers

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I love Atomic Buffalo Turds but in all honesty, these Creole Stuffed Peppers are pretty close to winning my taste buds over.

What more could you ask for. A complete meal in which you have all of the major food groups represented; and then barbecued to boot!

When I came up with this idea for Creole Stuffed Peppers it was to keep my wife happy. She knows that when I cook, it is normally BBQ. Now she likes BBQ but two or three times a week can be hard on your taste buds. The one thing she can never get enough of is seafood, but living in the middle of the New Mexico desert severely limits her ability to get quality fish or crab. So off I went to the grocery store with my daughter in tow.

Smoking or grilling peppers will make them sweet. In fact if you have never had a grilled or smoked pepper you are truly missing a real treat. Smoked shrimp however is another story. I prefer to grill my shrimp instead of smoking them. To me (and this is a personal preference) shrimp is too fragile of a flavor to handle a lot of smoke. Now placed in a dish where they are covered or protected is a different story.

As I stated earlier, I love ABT’s but my wife does not. The spiciness of the jalapeno pepper mixed with bacon, cream cheese and sausage is a natural BBQ work of art. The sweetness of these peppers is more to her liking while still addressing my need for MEAT in my dinner. If you are serving guest that may not appreciate your “belly on fire” cuisine, you may want to try making these stuffed peppers. One note though, these can be addicting. You can also sub out a few of the ingredients to custom make each pepper for your guest. A good substitution would be crayfish for the shrimp and or chipotle added to the mix to spice things up.

Alien BBQ's Creole Stuffed Peppers

Cooking time: 2 hours @ 250 degrees. Makes enough for approximately 10 good size peppers.

Ingredients:

10 large Red, Yellow, or Orange Peppers
1 pound Ground Beef
12 ounce Whole Kernel Corn
8 ounce Cream Cheese
8 ounce 50-60 Shrimp
8 ounce Sausage
12 ounce Chicken Stuffing Mix
1 teaspoon Roasted Garlic
1 teaspoon Minced Onion

Creole Stuffed Peppers

Start by pouring the can of corn (including the water) into the stuffing mix and softening the cream cheese. Next break out your iron skillet and precook the sausage and ground beef ( with a little butter) to where it is almost done (I do this for food safety reasons.)

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As soon as the beef and sausage comes off the fire, toss in the peeled shrimp and allow the pan to sit to the side. The heat from the skillet and the hot meat will cook your shrimp to perfection. Allow this to partially cool, stirring occasionally. I left the tails on the shrimp while cooking. I will remove the tails prior to mixing with the stuffing.

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Add the softened cream cheese to the stuffing and corn mix. Pour off the grease from the sausage, shrimp and beef skillet and mix thoroughly with the stuffing mix. The amount of water from the corn, juice from the meat and moisture from the cheese is absorbed by stuffing mix perfectly.

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Spoon in the mix to the peppers that have had their tops and seeds removed. You may want to save the tops to protect the mixture from burning (if needed) otherwise, discard the tops.

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Place in a preheated cooker @ 250 degrees for approximately 2 hours or until they reach and internal temperature of 160 degrees.

Creole Stuffed Peppers

Be very careful when you go to remove the Creole Stuffed Peppers from the cooker. The outer pepper shells will be very soft and can easily rip open. Do not worry if there is a slight char on the outside of the pepper. Charring of peppers actually makes them sweeter. The tops of the stuffing will be slightly crunchy, the centers soft and creamy, and the pepper firm, but easily cut with a fork.

Creole Stuffed Peppers

This recipe for Creole Stuffed Peppers and photos generously provided for your enjoyment by Weekend Griller, Alien BBQ

It is scheduled to appeared in his upcoming cookbook due out this summer. Keep watching The Weekend Griller and you just know we'll tell you all about it.

Contact Alien now at his site Alien Barbecue Technologies

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