We were at a friend's house a few weeks ago grilling out. Someone brought over jalapeno peppers, stuffed them with cream cheese and then wrapped them in bacon and threw them on the grill. I have never truly been a fan of jalapenos, but let me tell you...this made me a fan. It was absolutely delicious!!! I am not an avid grill master or anything so I was not planning on trying to duplicate this recipe myself, until I found a similar recipe that required me to bake this in the oven!!! I changed a couple things to make these less fattening and made them for my husband a week or so ago and he LOVED them!!
Ingredients:
- 5 or 6 jalapeno peppers. (You can use more of you would like. The cheese mixture will fill a lot more than 5 or 6. Just depends on how many you want to make)
- 6 strips of bacon cooked until crispy. (I used turkey bacon since it is healthier)
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 8 oz softened cream cheese (I used 1/3 fat Philadelphia)
- And last but not least I used 1 Kraft Cheddar Jack Fresh Take package. I had no idea these even existed but here is where they are located:
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Fry the bacon. I have always had a hard time frying turkey bacon in a skillet. It doesn't really get crispy. If you cook it on a paper towel in the microwave (45 seconds per piece), it will be crispy. So that is what I did.
- While the bacon is cooking, remove the seeds from the jalapeno peppers.
- Once the bacon is done, crumble. In a medium bowl, mix together the cream cheese, Colby jack cheese from the Fresh Take package, garlic salt, and crumbled bacon.
- Using a fork, stuff the cheese mixture into the jalapenos...
- ...then dip into the breadcrumbs from the Fresh Take package.
- Put the peppers on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake according to the following directions:
-Medium: 32 minutes
-Mild: 40 minutes
Our house smelled HEAVENLY while these were baking!
ENJOY!!!
Meghan
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