stuffed jalepenos
 

Hi. I'm new here. I have been so inspired reading everyone's recipes, I thought I would share a recipe my boyfriend made this last New Year's Day.

10 fresh jalepenos
8 ounces of cream cheese (cold)
1 lb sugar free raw bacon
toothpicks

Halve jalepeno peppers and remove seeds. Slice cheese and insert into jalepeno halves. Wrap each pepper half with bacon. Put on foil lined cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees until bacon starts to brown and crisp.

I use toothpicks inserted into the top of the wrapped peppers to help keep the bacon in place. My boyfriend cuts the bacon in half, but I use a whole slice of bacon, because I use the largest peppers I can find! Also, the cream cheese is easier work with if it is cold. Hope you like.

ginyer- Get some of those powder free latex, or non latex, gloves from your local pharmacy. That helps you from getting the oil into your face and skin. Alton Brown claims the reason he can't wear contacts is he tried putting them in a whole day after he messed with the jalapenos and still managed to really burn his eye. Last time I made fajitas I scratched my nose and had a burning under nose for evening.

This sounds yummy! Does the bacon actually get crispy? Roughly how long do you usually cook them?

I must have skin made from asbestos, because I've never had any trouble handling jalepnos. I slice 'em or chop 'em or scoop 'em or whatever my recipe calls for just using my bare hands and I've never felt the stinging or burning that people talk about.

One thing I have noticed, though, is if I chop them using my little food processor and then take the lid off the processor right away, the jalepenos fumes really attack me!

I usually cook them for 20 minutes or so. Alot of the baking time depends on the thickness of your bacon and how much you have put on the peppers. Also, you can hurry up the process by broiling the peppers for a few minutes after the bacon is cooked, if it seems to be taking too long. I usually cook them several hours before I need them and then just reheat them in the microwave or oven. The heat from the peppers do not bother me much either.

Thanks for the info.!

I have made those before and they are awesome. But yes, wear gloves or scrub your hands very well. I generally rub my eyes and then I am in trouble.

I saw an alternative that is really fun as well.

Do not cut them in half, but slit them open and pull out the seeds. We generally make a T type cut....with the top of the t being by the stem.

Stuff the pepper full of grated mexican cheese. Wrap in bacon and put a toothpick in.

You can bake or fry in the fry pan, or even throw them on the grill. But have you heat high so you cook them up quickly before the cheese melts out. They are really yummy.

I stole this idea off food network one day. I just love that show. :)

That sounds like my recipe I posted before. You can check it out here: http://forum.lowcarber.org/gallery/...imageuser=52934

Bad pic I know.

Yum, those look great!!!! ( Although a bit more time intensive than the recipe in this thread.) The addition of the pulled pork and barbecue seasoning sounds really good.

This recipe makes me wish I was not allergic to dairy
I wish I could try this recipe


Annie

If you are allergic to dairy they have soy based cream cheese. There is also some coconut cream y ou can buy that is as thick as cream cheese.

It seems that there are several variations of this type of recipe floating around. I recently saw one almost identical to BBQman's in our local paper (same name, too, which I found funny...must be my twisted sense of humor) but it called for a liberal sprinkling of BBQ rub over the bacon before smoking or baking. The cream cheese stuffing had other additions as well.
I have eczema on my hands and made the mistake of not wearing gloves the last time I made these...never again. My hands burned for 2 days and no amount of washing helped. Could be worse, though...I've heard stories of certain....er....southern regions being badly affected by unwashed pepper hands. :help:
Now I wear latex gloves and have no problems with burning skin. :thup:

These are fantastic. A quicker way to do it is instead of wrapping in raw bacon, you can roll the cream cheese filled side in store bought bacon pieces (already cooked and crumbled) and then bake. I think they are just as yummy this way and you don't have to wait for the bacon to cook.

Sometimes instead of putting bacon on top, I mix in some Fiesta Ranch dry dressing mix with the cream cheese. About 1T for every 8 ounces of cheese and then stuff the jalepenos with that.

:yum: :yum:

I can't wait to try these, going to make 'em tomorrow :)

That's an intersting idea. Too bad I never have any left over bacon, because that would be a great way to use it!

Waiting for them to cool down ...

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They were yummie!! 3 left, taking to work tomorrow w/ my lunch :yum:

Yum!!! How long did you cook them? Did you broil as well as bake them?

was thick bacon, took 25 minutes to cook ... was about to broil them cause the bacon was taking so long, but didn't :)

Um, yes. A couple of people I know on another board had this problem once (one was a lady, one was a man).

I'm not even sure how the topic came up.......

We had a bake sell at work to help support one of our coworkers who was diagnosed with cancer. The only sugar free item there was some jalapeno poppers made just like this. Unfortunetly the sell went auction style, and I was outbid from the start. I was allowed to try one though from the person who bought the plate full.

I went out and bought myself some medical supply gloves, jalapenos, and have the cream cheese and bacon on hand. Now all I need is some time to actually be able to cook them.

And yet another slight variation. I nuke the bacon because I like mine well done and crispy, then crumble it, mix it with the cream cheese, and stuff the seeded pepper before popping them in the oven. Voila! :)

Stuffed Jalapenos
 

Love those cream cheese stuffed Jalapenos. Been making them for years! Here is an additional tip...in addition to a foil wrapped pan, place them on a cooling wrack on top of the pan so that they do not sit in the fat and air flow can crisp all around. I put them on a gas grill for 45 minutes and walk away.

I've used this recipe for years, it's pretty good too and very easy.

Sometimes I just cut strips of bacon and lay across the top and put the oven on broil for the last 5 minutes.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/83500/...ffed-jalapenos/

I'm going to be trying a variation on these this weekend. I can't believe I never heard of this until a few days ago - and there's only one mention of it on this forum - but a guy on my gardening forum grew a ton of huge jalapenos and turned them into something he called ABTs. I had to google it to figure out what he was talking about. Atomic Buffalo Turds. :thup: :thup:


I'm not a big fan of smoked sausage, but I love Johnsonville's cheddar smoked sausage, so I'll probably buy some of those and cut them to an appropriate size.

I don't have a smoker, so I'll have to do them in the oven. Smoker might be the next foodie toy I get... seeing as there's no more room in my kitchen and I'll have to expand into the yard. Haha.

Atomic Buffalo Turds... I love it! :lol:

Walmart's jalapeno's are always huge so I have avoided getting them there, (also I get them cheaper at the farmers market). Now I want to try this recipe with some of those huge peppers :) They are big enough I could probably put 2 or 3 little smokie's in there end to end and then wrap an entire strip of bacon around.

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2 (12 ounce) packages ground sausage 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened 30 jalapeno chile peppers 1 pound sliced bacon, cut in half Add all ingredients to list

Sausage Stuffed Jalapenos

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Place ground sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown.
Drain sausage and place in a medium bowl. Mix with the cream cheese.
Cut jalapenos in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds. Stuff each jalapeno half with equal portions of the sausage and cream cheese mixture. Wrap with half slices of bacon. Secure bacon with toothpicks.
Arrange wrapped jalapenos in a large, shallow baking dish. Bake in the preheated oven 20 minutes, or until the bacon is evenly brown
I used Chorizo, sooooooo good!!
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