Poblanos – baked with a stuffing of Puy Lentils, Vegetables & Cheese

We’ve had a bumper harvest this year with a whole range of garden and greenhouse veg. I don’t count myself as a major gardener……… more of a dabbler……… but I find it amazing that with so little skill and equally small amounts of effort, you can successfully grow your own food.

I have grown chillies abundantly before, mainly buying small plants from the local garden centre of common varieties. This year however, I decided to grow a wider selection from seed which I bought on line through the South Devon Chilli Farm. If you like chillies, check out their site. It has a wonderful specialist selection of everything from chilli seeds to plants to produce, which can be posted to your home.

My harvested haul has been both very abundant and very colourful………. The beautiful long thin red ‘Ring of Fire’, which gives a powerful, earthy heat; the almost as hot small ‘Peruvian Purple’; the contrasting (but still hot), slightly sweeter yellow ‘Bulgarian Carrot’; a milder pretty round ‘Cherry Bomb’ variety; and the larger, mild Poblano. I am still picking enough to be both giving away the surplus and drying them to spice up the winter months and beyond!

A few weeks back, I lightly roasted the Cherry Bombs and stuffed some of them with goats cheese and a little basil. You can find the recipe posted here. The contrast of the cold, cream-cheese filling against the cautious heat of the chilli made for a perfect hors d’oeuvres or lunch salad.

The milder Poblano is a variety that I have been wanting to grow for years. I love that it is a perfect pepper for stuffing, but with a mild chilli back-kick, it warms the throat and livens the taste buds.

The Poblanos here are stuffed with a delicious combination of Puy lentils, vegetables, herbs and cheese, cooked in a base of rich roasted cherry tomatoes (also home grown) and topped with crispy parmesan gluten free breadcrumbs.

Sadly, the photos don’t do them justice. It was piddling down and getting dark outside when I made them. Whilst this added impact to the comforting warmth they exuded, it completely screwed up the opportunity to photograph them in any way which did them justice…….. so you’ll have to take my word for it……… they were really very very good indeed!

I am sharing my stuffed Poblanos with a handful of food challenges this month :

Simple & in Season……… I think my third entry this month…… Sorry Ren! There is still so much abundant fruit and veg to harvest at this time of the year…….. Nip over to Renbehan.com to check out all the amazing things that people have been cooking up this month.

The Poblanos and onions in this dish are straight out of the garden and the purple and yellow carrots were locally sourced from a nearby farm shop.

Poblanos – baked with a stuffing of Puy Lentils, Vegetables & Cheese

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