Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers

This entry was posted by keto beautiful on January 26, 2023 at 2:37 am

Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers

These Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers are stuffed with cream cheese that’s been mixed together with Everything Bagel seasoning. Prepped and baked in under 1 hour, this easy appetizer features the perfect combination of flavor and texture.

Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers on a plate with a bowl of the Everything Bagel Dip.

This recipe is reminiscent of bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers, but instead of jalapeños, mini sweet peppers are used. If you don’t love spicy food and are looking for a fun appetizer recipe, you will love this one!

The sweet peppers are stuffed with seasoned cream cheese, wrapped in bacon, then baked until crispy.

These are a fantastic choice if you are hosting a party for the holidays or for game day! You can easily prepare them in advance, and they travel well in a Tupperware container.

And, if you have even more mini peppers that you want to use up after you make these, try making Everything Bagel Mini Pepper Boats and Bacon And Chive Mini Pepper Poppers next!

Close-up of one Bacon Wrapped Mini Pepper dipped in a bowl of the Everything Bagel Dip, and the rest of the Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers on a plate.
Serve the peppers with Everything Bagel dip in a bowl or, for parties, add a spoon to the serving tray so guests can add some dip to their plates!

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💛 Why you’ll love this recipe

  • A less spicy alternative to the crowd-favorite jalapeño poppers.
  • Low-carb, keto-friendly, gluten-free, and grain-free.
  • Can be made and served in less than 1 hour.
  • A fun and easy party appetizer.

➡ Ingredients

Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers:

  • Bacon slices
  • Mini sweet peppers
  • Cream cheese
  • Finely shredded cheddar cheese
  • Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning (do not use traditional storebought Everything Bagel seasoning!- if you do, the peppers will be too salty. You can buy salt-free seasoning on Amazon (linked) or see the FAQs section or the Notes section in the recipe card below for how to make an easy homemade salt-free version)

Everything Bagel Dip:

  • Mayo
  • Sour cream
  • Heavy cream
  • Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning

(Need ingredient substitution suggestions? See that section below for my recommendations.)

⏲ How to make bacon wrapped peppers

This is an overview of the recipe’s instructions. The full instructions can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

  1. Prepare And Start Cooking Bacon: Bake the bacon slices in the oven for 7 minutes.
  2. Prepare Mini Peppers: Cut the mini peppers in half lengthwise then de-seed and de-vein them.
  3. Prepare Cream Cheese Filling: Mix together some cream cheese, the shredded cheddar cheese, and Everything Bagel seasoning (salt-free!).
  4. Fill Each Pepper Half With Cream Cheese Filling: Using a small spoon, fill each pepper half with the filling. (If you have extra filling left over, set it aside for now.)
Process Shots Collage of the Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers (Steps 1 to 4) · Upper left photo: Oven-baked bacon slices on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet atop a marble counter. · Upper right photo: Mini peppers cut in half lengthwise, deseeded, and deveined on a cutting board atop a marble counter. · Lower left photo: Cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and seasoning mixed together in a bowl atop a marble counter. · Lower right photo: Halved mini peppers filled with cream cheese mixture on a cutting board atop a marble counter.
  1. Take Bacon Out Of Oven: Remove the slightly-cooked bacon from the oven, but don’t turn the oven off. Transfer the bacon to a paper towel-lined plate and allow it to cool slightly.
  2. Wrap Slightly-Cooked Bacon Around Stuffed Mini Peppers And Bake: Wrap the peppers in with a slice of bacon and secure each with a toothpick. Make sure the toothpick is inserted horizontally, then set each filling side-up (to ensure the filling remains inside of the pepper while baking) atop the same baking sheet used to cook the bacon. Transfer the baking sheet back to the oven and bake until the bacon is crispy. If you want the bacon to be crispier, you can broil it in the oven. Carefully transfer the baking sheet to the highest oven rack, turn on the broiler, and broil for 1-2 minutes. Be sure to watch the peppers very carefully if you do this – they can burn quickly (as can the parchment paper) under the broiler.
  3. Prepare Everything Bagel Dip: Meanwhile, while the peppers bake, prepare the Everything Bagel dip by stirring together some mayo, sour cream, heavy cream, and Everything Bagel seasoning (again- be sure this is salt-free seasoning!). If you had extra cream cheese filling, you can mix it in with the dip, so long as you’re sure it didn’t come into contact with any raw or undercooked bacon. Transfer the dip to the refrigerator to chill while the peppers finish baking.
  4. Final Steps Then Serve: Once the bacon is crispy, you can remove the peppers from the oven, remove the toothpicks from each pepper, and then serve with the prepared dipping sauce.
Process Shots Collage of the Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers (Steps 5 to 8) · Upper left photo: Oven-baked bacon slices on a paper towel-lined plate. · Upper right photo: Halved mini peppers filled with cream cheese mixture, wrapped in bacon, and secured with a toothpick on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. · Lower left photo: Everything Bagel Dip with a small spoon in a bowl atop a marble counter. · Lower right photo: Baked Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers on a plate with a bowl of the Everything Bagel Dip.

👉 Ingredient substitution suggestions

  • Bacon: Turkey bacon will work, or you could try pancetta. Note that either of these options may be thinner than pork bacon, so you may need to use more than 1 slice.
  • Cream Cheese: You can use vegan cream cheese or, if you can eat nuts, almond cream cheese at a 1:1 ratio.
  • Cheddar Cheese: Use any finely shredded cheese you have on hand. Shredded Colby or Colby-Jack would be my suggestions.
  • Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning: I buy mine on Amazon. If you don’t want to purchase it online, you can make your own salt-free seasoning at home by following the instructions in the FAQs section below. Alternatively, you can altogether omit this ingredient; if you do, you’ll probably want to add a sprinkle of salt and pepper to the cream cheese mixture and to the dipping sauce.
  • Mayonnaise: Full-fat Greek yogurt can be used here.
  • Sour Cream: Use full-fat Greek yogurt in place of sour cream.
  • Heavy Cream: Use 1 tablespoon of melted butter in place of heavy cream.

✨ Variations

  • Skip slicing the peppers in half and, instead, stuff the peppers using a piping bag. If you do this, I would suggest doubling all of the ingredients in the recipe so that you’ll yield 10 mini peppers (instead of 5).

〰 How to serve the peppers

  • If you’re serving these at a party, arrange the prepared peppers on a platter with the prepared dip in a small ceramic bowl. It would be easiest to have a small serving spatula alongside the platter so that guests can easily grab 1 or 2 of the peppers, but toothpicks in a dish for them to grab would work, too. Be sure to also have a spoon in the dip bowl for guests to serve themselves.

➜ Cooking and recipe tips

  • Sweet mini peppers are often sold in bags at the grocery store in the produce section. When you’re choosing which peppers to use from the bag, try and pick the biggest ones, which will make stuffing the cream cheese filling into them a lot easier.
  • You don’t need to remove every seed and vein of the peppers. It’s totally safe to eat these parts of the pepper. Plus, since mini peppers aren’t spicy like jalapenos, leaving a few seeds won’t affect the spice level of the stuffed peppers.
  • If you want the peppers to be on the softer side, you can choose to parboil them before stuffing them, but this isn’t necessary. If, however, you want to go this route, bring a pot of water to a boil, pour in the halved mini peppers, and boil for about 2 minutes – they won’t need long. Then, using a slotted spoon, transfer the peppers to an ice bath (a bowl of water with lots of ice cubes in it). Let the peppers fully cool before stuffing them with the cream cheese mixture.
  • Use thinly-cut bacon. This will ensure the bacon cooks up quickly and is crispy. If you can only find bacon that is thicker-cut, increase the cooking time of when you initially cook it by about 5 minutes. Then, once the peppers are wrapped in the bacon and have finished baking, you can consider turning the oven broiler on and placing the bacon-wrapped peppers under the broiler for 1-2 minutes to finish crisping up (just be sure to watch them very carefully – they can burn easily!).

💬 FAQs

Can I make these in advance to serve later?

Yep! These hold up really well when made in advance. You can either fully cook the recipe from start to finish, store the bacon-wrapped peppers in an airtight container in the refrigerator, and then reheat in the oven or microwave until warmed throughout immediately before serving. Or, alternatively, you can stuff the peppers with the cream cheese mixture in advance, store those in an airtight container in the refrigerator, and then, on the day you’re going to serve them, prepare the bacon (slightly bake, wrap the slightly-baked bacon around the stuffed peppers, then finish baking).

Do I have to include Everything Bagel seasoning in the cream cheese mixture?

Nope, you can skip this! Alternatively, you can include your favorite parts of Everything Bagel seasoning, like a mixture of sesame seeds and poppy seeds, minced garlic and minced onion, just poppy seeds, etc.

Where do I buy Everything Bagel Seasoning? Can I make it at home?

I often prefer to buy my Everything Bagel Seasoning pre-made to skip a few steps. I use this Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning from Amazon. For this recipe, do not use traditional storebought Everything Bagel Seasoning as it contains salt. If you do, these peppers will be too salty. If you don’t have salt-free seasoning, make your own by following the instructions below.

To make Everything Bagel Seasoning that is salt-free for both the filling and the dip, mix together:
– 1 Tablespoon + 2 teaspoons plain sesame seeds
– 1 Tablespoon + 2 teaspoons black sesame seeds
– 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon dried minced onion
– 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon dried minced garlic
– 2 teaspoons poppy seeds

How should these be stored?

Store the peppers in an airtight container for up to 2 days and then reheat them in the oven at 425 degrees or in the microwave until warmed throughout. Note that the oven is the preferred reheating method as it will ensure the bacon re-crisps up, but the microwave will work just fine if you aren’t concerned about that.

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Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers on a plate with a bowl of the Everything Bagel Dip.

Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers

★★★★★

5 from 1 reviews

  • Author: Sara Nelson
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 10 mini peppers
  • Category: Appetizer
  • Method: Bake
  • Cuisine: American
  • Diet: Gluten Free
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Description

These Bacon Wrapped Mini Peppers are stuffed with cream cheese that’s been mixed together with Everything Bagel seasoning. Prepped and baked in under 1 hour, this easy appetizer features the perfect combination of flavor and texture.

Ingredients

Peppers:

  • 10 long, thin-cut bacon slices
  • 5 large mini sweet peppers
  • 2.5 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup (28 grams) finely shredded cheddar cheese
  • 2 Tablespoons + 2 teaspoons (~27g) Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning, (do not use traditional storebought Everything Bagel seasoning; see Notes section below for homemade salt-free version)

Everything Bagel Dip:

  • 1/4 cup (60 grams) cup mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons (90 grams) sour cream
  • 1 Tablespoon (15 milliliters) heavy cream
  • 3 Tablespoons (~30 grams) Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning

Instructions

  1. Prepare And Start Cooking Bacon: Preheat oven to 425 degrees and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Lay bacon slices on prepared baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes.
  2. Prepare Mini Peppers: Meanwhile, cut peppers in half lengthwise, de-seed, and de-vein.
  3. Prepare Cream Cheese Filling: Mix together cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and salt-free seasoning.
  4. Fill Each Pepper Half With Cream Cheese Filling: Using a small spoon, fill peppers with filling. (If you have extra filling, set it aside for now.)
  5. Take Bacon Out Of Oven: Remove bacon from oven. Don’t turn oven off. Transfer bacon to paper towel-lined plate and allow it to cool slightly.
  6. Wrap Slightly-Cooked Bacon Around Stuffed Mini Peppers And Bake: Wrap peppers with a slice of bacon and securing with a toothpick. Make sure the toothpick is inserted horizontally then set each filling side-up (to ensure the filling remains inside of the pepper while baking) atop same baking sheet used to cook bacon. Transfer baking sheet back to preheated oven at 425 degrees, then bake until bacon is crispy, which may take anywhere from 18-25 minutes, depending on thickness of bacon slices. (If bacon is still not crisped to your liking after this amount of time, carefully transfer baking sheet to the top oven rack, turn on oven broiler, and broil for 1-2 minutes. Watch them very carefully if you do this because they can quickly burn!)
  7. Prepare Everything Bagel Dip: While peppers bake, prepare dip by stirring together all ingredients in a mixing bowl. If you have extra filling, mix it in with the dip (see note below). Transfer dip to refrigerator to chill while peppers finish baking.
  8. Final Steps Then Serve: Remove peppers from oven, allow to cool slightly, remove toothpicks, and serve with dipping sauce.

Recipe Notes:

Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning Substitution: I buy mine from Amazon. If you don’t want to purchase it online, you can make your own salt-free seasoning at home. Note that you need to use Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning, otherwise the peppers will be entirely too salty. If you do not want to order that or would prefer to make your own seasoning at home, follow the instructions below to make your own.

Homemade Salt-Free Everything Bagel Seasoning: To make the Everything Bagel Seasoning for both the filling and for the dip (storebought is easier, but if you have to make it at home): 1 Tablespoon + 2 teaspoons plain sesame seeds, 1 Tablespoon + 2 teaspoons black sesame seeds, 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon dried minced onion, 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon dried minced garlic, 2 teaspoons poppy seeds

If You Have Extra Filling: This is typically because your peppers were on the smaller side. Save it and mix it in with the Everything Bagel Dip you prepare. Just be sure that none of the uncooked bacon is mixed with it.

Refrigerator Storage: While these peppers are best when eaten fresh, you can store them in an airtight container for up to 2 days and then reheat them.

Keywords: bacon wrapped peppers, bacon wrapped sweet peppers, mini sweet peppers with bacon, peppers wrapped in bacon

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