• In The News
  • Media Kit
  • Speaking Engagements
  • Advertise
  • Disclosure
  • Contact

Sara's House

Farm to table to you

  • Home
  • About
  • Our Farm
  • Blog
    • Agriculture
      • Food Topics
    • Family Farms
      • Cattle
      • Crops
        • Planting
        • Harvest
      • Garden
    • Family
      • Holiday
    • Sara Says…
      • DIY
      • Featured Articles
      • Health and Fitness
      • Monthly Recaps
      • Sara’s Weekly Findings
      • Travel
      • Wordless Wednesday
      • Write 31 Day Challenge
  • Recipe Index
    • Baked Goods
    • Breakfast
    • Canning and Freezing
    • Dessert
    • Main Dishes
    • Sides Dishes
    • Soups and Salads
    • Starters

H-O-T Jalapeno Poppers

October 13, 2011 By Sara

Surprisingly, to a few people, my garden has done quite well on top of our “windy” hill.  My Roma tomato plants are still producing and are loaded with tomatoes.  I’m hoping to can all of those when the time comes.
My jalapeno plants have been doing really well also and boy are they H-O-T ones!  I had three dozen the other day and knew that I wanted to stuff them with something and then bake them in the oven.  Kevin had some friends over, so I decided that the guys might like them as appetizers.

Ingredients:
Chorizo, ground
Green pepper, diced
Onion, diced
Cream cheese, softened
Shredded cheddar cheese
Toothpicks
Sour Cream
Lawry’s
Garlic salt

I started by grabbing a sharp paring knife and also my grapefruit knife (it’s the one on the left).

I lopped off the tops of the jalapenos.

Then I used the grapefruit knife, which has a serrated edge on both sides of the knife, to dig out the insides of the jalapeno.  (Side Note:  I highly recommend wearing plastic gloves when handling hot peppers!)

Grapefruit knife

Once all the seeds and membranes are taken out, just set the jalapeno to the side and do the same to the rest of the peppers.  (I took out all the seeds and they were still very HOT!)

In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth.

Now the ground chorizo that I used I actually made a while ago and then froze the leftovers.  But you can make it fresh.  All I did was saute some green pepper and onion and then brown the chorizo and mix them together.

Once the chorizo mixture is cooked, add some to the cream cheese mixture.

Mix well!  Then add some cheddar cheese.  There are no amounts on this recipe because it all depends on how many jalapenos you are stuffing!  So just eyeball it until it looks tastes right!

After you have it all mixed together, you need to stuff the jalapenos.  To do this I used a small spoon to squish the cheese mixture down into the pepper.

Fill it all the way to the top of the pepper and then place them off to the side.

Now the next picture looks a little funny, but it was the only way that I could get the peppers to stay upright in the oven!  I didn’t want to lay them down because all the yummy filling would have oozed out.  So I inserted 3-4 toothpicks into each jalapeno pepper to make them stand up on a cookie sheet.

Place them in the oven at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes.

Serve them with a side of sour cream to help cool your mouth off!  (I sprinkled a little garlic salt and Lawry’s into the sour cream).  Enjoy!  These make a great appetizer for a large group of friends and family, just make sure you warn them if they are HOT!

Share this:

  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Print

Related

2 Comments · Filed Under: Recipes, Starters · Tagged With: Family, Garden, Jalapenos, Poppers

« Wordless Wednesday-S’mores with Grandpa!
World Food Prize »

Comments

  1. Andy Ford says

    October 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Sarah,

    Digging your blog! Noticed you are an Apple fan like myself. I’m writing a white paper on Younger Farmers and their internet habits and wondered if you wouldn’t mind taking a quick survey about your preferences online? My blog has a link on it, and here is one straight to the poll.http://aford.polldaddy.com/s/digital-farmer

    any questions please hit me up at afordrunning(at)gmail(dot)com – and good luck with your running…I enjoy it quite a bit myself

    Reply
  2. Lisa says

    October 13, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    I’ve made similar poppers sliced in half, stuffed, then wrapped in bacon … Yuuummy.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

biopic
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Categories

CommonGround Iowabloggers

Copyright © 2021 Sara's House · Design by Chicky Design · Log in

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.