Easy Appetizer Recipes
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Red Pepper Parmesan Appetizers
This cheese and pepperoni appetizer is baked, and then served in deliciously warm, bite size pieces. The mixture of pepperoni, cheese, red bell pepper, ham and more make these wonderfully tasty morsels very popular at parties as well as easy party appetizers to put together. If you like hot appetizer recipes, you will love this chewy, flavorful combination of delicious and wonderful ingredients.
Cheese, ham, and pepperoni go together nicely and are commonly mixed together on pizzas and the red pepper adds color as well as flavor. The provolone, parmesan and Swiss cheese give contrasting cheese flavors and they also give the appetizer recipe a creamy richness. Appetizers like these cheese and pepperoni appetizer bites are nice hot or warm but you can also serve them chilled if you want to, in which case you can consider them to be make ahead appetizers.
This wonderful appetizer is a delicious mixture of ingredients sandwiched between two crescent roll layers. You can choose what size of pieces to cut these appetizers into. Maybe you want to make quite big slices, in which case you can give one to everyone, or maybe you prefer to make little pieces so people can help themselves to several.
Italian Cheese and Pepperoni Appetizer
Ingredients -
2 packs crescent rolls
4 eggs
1 ½ cups cooked ham
3 teaspoons dry Italian dressing mix
1 cup Swiss cheese
12 oz roasted sweet peppers
8 slices provolone cheese
3 oz pepperoni
¼ cup parmesan
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Dice the ham finely, shred the Swiss cheese, grate the parmesan, chop the pepperoni, and cut the red peppers into thin strips.
Spray non stick cooking spray on the bottom and sides of a 13 x 9 inch baking pan and put one pack of crescent rolls on the bottom and an inch up the sides, sealing any perforations in the crescent roll dough.
Put half the ham on top, then the Swiss cheese, pepperoni, and provolone cheese in layers, finishing with the remaining ham.
Put the red pepper on top.
Put the eggs in a bowl and whisk in the Italian dressing mix and parmesan.
Set aside ¼ cup of this mixture and pour the rest over the pepper strips.
Roll the second crescent roll dough out into a 13 x 9 inch rectangle on a lightly floured board, sealing any perforations.
Put this dough in the pan on top of the other ingredients, pinching the edges to seal.
Cover the pan with an oven safe lid or aluminum foil and bake until golden.
This will take about 22 minutes.
Let the cheese and pepperoni appetizer cool for a few minutes, then cut into bite size pieces and serve.
(Makes 36)
