Monday, February 7, 2011

Stuffed Jalapenos [Warning: Addicting and Not Good For You]

Super Bowl Sunday is filled with food, also called the supper bowl.  It's one time out of the year you have the right to gorge yourself full of chips, dips, nachos, pizzas, and this year... stuffed Jalapenos.

This was actually thought up in the shower (where most of my awesome ideas come from) and it just sounded really good.  You might be thinking, how is this any different? You'll see...

What you'll need/want
Jalapenos - I made about 11 for a total of 22 halves
1 pkg of cream cheese
1/2 cup of griller crumbles
Shredded pepper jack cheese
Tabasco - Chipotle flavored
1 small can of green chilis
1 bulb of garlic, yes garlic.

First you roast the bulb of garlic.  Sounds fancy, but very easy to do.  Simply take a bulb and cut off the top of it. Wrap it in foil and put in the oven at 400 for an hour.  Your house will smell incredible.

Meanwhile let the cream cheese soften. Also, cut the jalapenos in half (wear gloves) and take out all the seeds.

Once the garlic is done,  place the jalapenos on a cookie sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes, they should brown up just a tad.

Take the cream cheese and add the green chilis and mix together with the tabasco, just a splash of the stuff.  Gives it kind of a smoky flavor.  Next take the bulb of garlic and squeeze it from the bottom and it will just come right out into the cream cheese mixture.  Mix it up, smashing the garlic. Next add the griller crumbles and mix it all up.  Put the mixture in a ziploc bag.

Take the Jalapenos out and let cool.  Cut a corner of the ziploc bag (like an icing bag) and fill the peppers with the mixture and place back on the cookie sheet and top with the pepper jack cheese.  At this point you can put them in the fridge if you want to wait until game time (or eating time) when ready to eat, place them in a 450 degree oven until the cheese is melted on top (roughly 5-9 minutes).

Enjoy!

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