12 Tasty Banana Pepper Recipes To Use Up Your Harvest
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Banana peppers are one of our favorite peppers to grow in the garden. Not only are they incredibly tasty, but the plants can be prolific as well! Plus, it’s a lot easier to offload a harvest of banana peppers to our friends and neighbors. Not everyone likes super spicy peppers.
Sometimes, you may find yourself with more banana peppers than you know what to do with. You can only pickle so many. It’s true that pickling banana peppers is our absolute favorite thing to do with them, hence why it’s #1 on this list.
However, there are lot’s of other great banana pepper recipes you can try as well! Check out our article here and learn the perfect time to pick banana peppers for these recipes. Let’s get into it.
1. Pickled Banana Peppers
It simply wouldn’t be a list of banana pepper recipes without pickles. These are one of our favorite things to make in the fall when it’s pepper harvest time. Enjoy them on sandwiches, eggs, or just cheese and crackers. Check out our go-to recipe and video to learn all about how we pickle our banana peppers. Get the recipe here.
2. Banana Pepper Hot Sauce
It’s no secret that we love making hot sauce with our fresh peppers. This banana pepper sauce is a tasty twist on classic pickled banana peppers. And, its a good way to use up a lot of banana peppers! Get the recipe here.
3. Stuffed Banana Peppers
There are many reasons you’ll want to try these cheesy stuffed banana peppers. The ooey-gooey melty cheesy and flavorful ground sausage make these stuffed peppers irresistible. Next time you have a lot of peppers to use up, try this recipe for an easy weeknight meal. Get the recipe here.
Check out some tasty poblano pepper recipes, including stuffed chiles rellenos!
4. Banana Pepper Relish
This tangy banana pepper relish is a delicious condiment for hot dogs, burgers, tacos, and more. It also has a beautiful, vibrant color and an addictive crunch. Make this with your garden-fresh banana peppers and you won’t be disappointed! Get the recipe here.
5. Stuffed Banana Pepper Soup Recipe
If you’re a fan of traditional stuffed peppers (or stuffed pepper soups), you’ll want to give this recipe a go. It’s a flavorful recipe that makes a perfectly spicy lunch for the fall. The leftovers are also easily frozen so you can prepare it in advance. Get the recipe here.
6. Italian Chopped Salad
This crisp salad is perfect for a late summer night dinner. Banana peppers add a whole new level of flavor and crunch that cannot be matched. This recipe from The Toasty Kitchen is for an Italian chopped salad and includes banana peppers, as well as some other tasty fresh ingredients. Get the recipe here.
Try using pickled banana peppers for some added zing in this recipe!
7. Easy Crockpot Mississippi Roast
This easy roast only has 5 ingredients, and banana peppers are one of them! And even better, it’s made in the crockpot. We love using the crockpot for simple meals we can set and forget. While the recipe calls for pickled banana peppers, you can also quick-pickle them in a bit of vinegar, salt, and sugar for this meal. Get the recipe here.
8. Grinder Salad
If you’re craving a grinder but want to skip out on the carb-heavy bread, this salad recipe is the one for you. Who doesn’t love a tasty grinder topped with crunchy banana peppers? It’s simple, decadent, and can be prepared in under 30 minutes. Get the recipe here.
9. Stuffed Pepper Burgers
Is your mouth watering yet? If you love the taste of burgers and stuffed peppers, why not combine the two? This recipe is perfect for the late summer months when you’re grilling out back. Drizzle with some homemade hot sauce and you’re good to go! Get the recipe here.
10. Burger Bowls
It’s no secret that burgers and pickled banana peppers go hand-in-hand. These burger bowls are everything you love about a burger, but without the bun. It’s a creative take on a classic, but this recipe is both gluten and dairy free. Get the recipe here.
11. Banana Pepper Tomato Baked Chicken
This baked chicken recipe really embraces the flavor of banana peppers. It’s bold, flavorful, and even Whole 30-approved. While the recipe calls for store bought banana pepper rings, you can use fresh banana peppers from the garden as well. Try blistering them beforehand for extra flavor. Get the recipe here.
12. Golden Beet Tomato Bloody Mary
Golden beet tomato Bloody Mary – that is a mouthful. This is a unique recipe that actually uses the juice from your pickled banana peppers. So, if you already have a jar of delicious pickles prepared, try making this flavorful Bloody Mary for brunch. Get the recipe here.
I hope you enjoyed this round-up of delicious banana pepper recipes! How do you like to use up your harvest of banana peppers? We typically make big batches of pickles for our friends and family, but we know how prolific these pepper plants can be!
If I use a hot water bath for the pickled peppers, will the pepper rings get soft? How do I keep them crisp
Using pickle crisp helps maintain crunchiness (calcium chloride)
There is a product out there that will help. Its s called Pickle Fresh. We live in a very small town had to order mine from Amazon. I just picked and processed , canned a bunch of banana peppers from our garden, seemed to work well.
I grow Burpee blazing hot banana peppers from seed and stuff the dull yellow peppers with an Italian sausage mixture that would make a good meatball (for heat include the cored out seeds and membrane in the sausage mixture) and cook them in tomato sauce like your cheese stuffed. They freeze remarkably well with the raw sausage mixture and we have them over the winter.
My husband loves all your posts. 1st time growing peppers and he made your pickled banana peppers they were AWESOME..thank you for sharing your story. And all of your answers…he is going to make your relish if we can find the recipe the one you use the blender on utube
That’s great! I’m glad you enjoyed the pickled banana peppers. I believe the relish recipe you’re looking for is our jalapeño relish here.