Have you ever known a recipe was going to be good while you were cooking it? Maybe it was the smells or the colors or the combination of textures, but something was just so clearly right about what you were making?
For these breakfast stuffed peppers, I had that sense somewhere between looking at the delicious fillings, smelling the roasted peppers, and sneaking a corn strip which I would later be layering into the poblanos for a little crunch.
These are spot on stuffed peppers and by stuffed I mean stuffed. One is an excellent meal and almost like a carb-free burrito. Why would you even need a tortilla when you can just wrap the fillings with a mildly spicy roasted pepper?
- Want a Change-up to stuffed peppers? Try these Stuffed Shishito Peppers!
Breakfast Stuffed Peppers
Ingredients
- 4 poblano chiles, roasted
- 4 corn tortillas, sliced
- 6 large eggs, whisked
- ½ cup sweet corn
- 1 jalapeno, minced
- ¼ red onion, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- ½ cup salsa
- 1 cup queso fresco, crumbled
- cilantro, garnish
Sour cream sauce:
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 lime, juice only
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lay out peppers on a baking sheet and corn tortillas (cut into strips).
- Roast peppers and tortillas for 8-10 minutes. Then remove tortilla strips so they don’t burn and flip peppers. Roast them for another 5-10 minutes until they are well blistered. Transfer peppers to a large bowl and cover with plastic wrap and let steam for 5 minutes. Then peel the peppers (it’s okay if some skin remains).
- Meanwhile in a large skillet, add a drizzle of oil over medium heat. Add jalapeno,corn, and red onion and cook for 3-4 minutes until veggies soften. Season with salt and pepper and remove from skillet.
- Add another drizzle of oil and scrambled eggs. Turn heat down to low and cook until eggs are just cooked. Try not to overcook them.
- For sour cream sauce, stir ingredients together and set aside.
- When ready to make peppers, cut each pepper down the center and then horizontally by the stem to form a T. Scoop out seeds.
- In each pepper, layer in the corn tortillas, eggs, corn mixture, and queso fresco. Return to oven and bake a second time for 5-8 minutes until cheese is well-melted.
- Remove peppers and garnish each one with sour cream mixture, cilantro, and salsa. Serve immediately!
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Breakfast Stuffed Peppers: Multi-task Roasting
Without a doubt, my favorite part of these peppers is a nice layer of crunchy corn tortilla strips in the pepper. It gives the pepper some body and crunch that is very much needed. Otherwise, the whole thing would be a bit on the soggy side.
Luckily, we need to roast our peppers so just toss the corn tortilla strips on the same baking sheet. That’s multi-tasking!
Roast these at 375 degrees F. and the corn strips will be nice and crispy after about 8 minutes. The peppers will need a flip and another 7-8 minutes to make sure they are blistered well.
Just scoop your strips off the baking sheet so they don’t get burned.
After another round in the oven, the peppers will be blistered and beautiful.
A little trick to make these easier to peel is to stick them in a bowl, cover them with plastic wrap, and let them steam for about five minutes.
Also, don’t stress about peeling them perfectly. Some skin on the peppers is okay.
When your peppers are cool enough to handle, cut a T in each pepper and scoop out the seeds. This will make for easy stuffing.
If you were making classic chile rellenos and frying these, I would try to keep the incision as small as possible so the fillings don’t come out, but for these I actually like to really open them up so the fillings almost spill out and you can stuff the peppers extra full.
Pepper Fillings
Besides the corn tortillas and some crumbled queso fresco, I made two fillings for these guys.
The first is a simple veggie mix of jalapenos, red onion, and sweet corn. I used frozen sweet corn, but if you can find fresh then use it!
Just saute these all in a skillet over medium heat with a little olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper until they start to soften.
Second filling is eggs! Hard to have a stuffed breakfast thing without them!
Cook the eggs over low heat until they just cooked. Since we are going to bake these a second time in the peppers, it’s best to undercook these a bit if you can.
The Stuffed Layers
Okay. We are ready to stuff. Start by adding a nice layer of crispy corn strips on the bottom of each pepper. This will give you a little crispy base to work on.
Then the eggs.
Then some queso fresco and the corn mixture. Again… don’t be afraid to stuff the crap out of these. I’m talking bursting.
Return the peppers to the oven and bake them for another 5-10 minutes. You want to melt the cheese and warm the fillings but not completely break down the pepper.
When the peppers come out, garnish them with the sour cream mixture, salsa, and cilantro.
One of these is a great breakfast with maybe a side of fruit. They are pretty filling.
How could you not want one of these?!
- Want a different stuffed breakfast idea? Try these Bacon Stuffed Griddle Cakes!
Claire
Nick, this looks SO good! We made migas this morning for breakfast, and you know, this kind of seems like a migas-stuffed pepper, what with the tortilla strips and eggs and all. Considering the slightly sloppy look of traditional migas, I think this would be an awesome way to dress it up for company. Thanks for the idea!
Nick
It is kind of a classy Migas situation. Good call and obviously you could switch up the stuffing to your liking. ;)
Olivia @ Olivia’s Cuisine
These are genius! What a nice nutritious breakfast!
Nick
Thanks Olivia!
Chris
Love this idea. I think I will do a version that mixes in some browned chorizo and use Mexican crema in the sauce. Great post, Nick.
Nick
Nice Chris. Yea… Mexican crema might be a better choice if you can find it. I couldn’t get any of it on this particular day so I just used plain old sour cream.
Matt
That…looks…incredible.
dobes
In the process of making these now. The peppers peeled beautifully, but there was NO WAY to leave stems intact while removing seeds. The seeds in the poblanos were attached to a woody core I could not cut through, so now my peppers are kind of flat wraps, not boats to stuff. I hope they still work!
How did you get the seeds out while leaving the stems in place?
Nick
Heya! I just used a sharp paring knife to cut the seed section out close to the top… I don’t think it will matter at all though honestly. They still should turn out great once they are stuffed! Hope it turned out okay!
dobes
They were absolutely delicious! I would never do that much work for breakfast though (well, maybe on Christmas or something!) but we had them for dinner, with leftovers as packed lunches to take to work. I’ll definitely keep the recipe – these were great!!
Lisa Taylor
It was just fascinating to watch you make these. They’re on my “must try” saved list. Can’t go wrong with a description like “stuff the crap out of ’em!” Lol You rock, Nick.
Nick
So glad you liked it Lisa! Hope you like the peppers. :)
Kevin Fearnside
I have to try this but with some chorizo added.