Pork-Stuffed Jalapeño Peppers
A fresh jalapeño pepper is the perfect delivery vehicle for meat or seafood. When the pepper is cut open, there’s just enough room to stuff a nibble of ground meat, sausage, shrimp or crab. The delicious edible package is sealed with a strip of bacon that drips fatty flavor into the pepper. A stuffed jalapeño can be eaten with your fingers in one or two bites (it’s delicious either hot or cold) and the addictive spicy flavor keeps you coming back for more.
Italian pork sausage is especially good in the pepper, if you want to go all out with pork flavor. Or, you can lighten things up a little by finely chopping raw shrimp in a food processor and stuffing that inside the pepper instead.
These bite-sized, savory treats are definitely popular appetizers, but why not serve them for breakfast too? Alongside a plate of eggs a stuffed jalapeño pepper is ridiculously good.
Servings: 20 stuffed jalapeños
Ingredients:
- 10 fresh jalapeños, sliced in half lengthwise, white membrane and seeds removed
- 10 slices of bacon, cut in half
- 1/2 pound (230 g) of loose pork sausage or other seasoned ground meat
Instructions:
Heat oven to 400 ºF (205 ºC)
Use your fingers to stuff meat into each jalapeño half.
Snugly wrap a piece of bacon around the pepper. Secure it with a toothpick.
You can put the peppers directly on baking sheet or pan, but the fat that drips off the bacon will make them a little greasy. To avoid this, set a cooling rack on top of a baking pan and put the pepper on the rack.
Bake for 25 minutes, until bacon is crispy.
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Posted By: Worker Bee
I made these today and I really liked them, I left the seeds in because I like my poppers to pack a punch!
Daughter and I each ate NINE, husband ate two after running away to McDonald’s first.
I used to make a similar treat, except I would just slit the pepper, and fill it with farm cream cheese and some extra-sharp cheddar & serve with homemade ranch dressing… this looks pretty damn good
Whoo-hoo! I just made these with poblanos and chorizo. Yum!!
I made these tonight! awesome…can’t wait to serve them to company. PS I have a story about a long afternoon of gourmet prep work in the kitchen (included chopping hot peppers) followed by some “recreational activities” which involved some “sensitive areas”… a surprisingly pleasant effect! My hubby and I joke about it all the time but we’re nervous to try to recreate it. It was a happy accident which I can’t help but think could be very painful if you went overboard.
I made these last night, and my non-primal husband loved them, and we ate all but 9. I took these into work, and co-workers loved them (warmed under a broiler). I prepped the peppers with gloves on. Use hot italian sausage to stuff them. AWESOME! A new favorite.
Awesome, I love jalapenos and am always looking for creative uses. Though I think I’m going to use turkey bacon instead of regular bacon. Thanks for the great idea!
I made these for a quick supper and they came out great! I had some bulk hot Italian sausage as well as some ground pork in the freezer, so I defrosted them both, mixed them together with my hands, and then stuffed away. The hotness of the jalapenos mellowed out nicely, and they were pretty addictive! I would definitely serve them at a party as hors d’ouevres, in addition to a nice little supper or lunch item.
PS: I had lovely thick bacon, and for most of them, I cut it into quarters, across and then lengthwise. Worked very well.
I made them with poblanos. Outstanding!
Has anyone tried these on the BBQ?
Mouth. Salivating. Totally making these for the next football game i go to. Maybe even stuff them with my buffalo chicken dip for an extra kick.
I made these last night for the football game (Packers v. Bears). Half I did with jalapenos and half with mini sweet bell peppers. I also did some with cream cheese and green onions and I put some of the jalapeno seeds in the cream cheese too. I think my husband ate 10 halves. Yummy stuff!
Made these tonight with peppers from my garden…a new staple appetizer in our house, we all devoured them!
these are wonderful! i didnt have sausage so i used ground turkey that i seasoned with creole seasoning. yum yum yum thanks for posting.