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<\/a>\nOur Jalapeno plant\u00a0 early in the year.<\/p>\n
Ingredients<\/h1>\n
~12 fresh jalapeno peppers (blanched), halved lengthwise, stems, seeds and membranes removed.\u00a0 Depending on size and how much stuffing you want.<\/p>\n
Filling Ingredients<\/h2>\n
8 ounces cream cheese, softened (let\u00a0set to come to room temp)\u00a0and divided
\n1\/2-3\/4 cups grated Monterrey Jack (one batch I use the Boars Head crazy pepper jack, those I could not eat)
\n1\/2-3\/4 cups grated sharp Cheddar
\n1\/2 teaspoon ground cumin – for each cheese mix\u00a0
\n1\/2 teaspoon cayenne, or less, to taste – for each cheese mix<\/p>\n
Coating Ingredients<\/h2>\n
2 large eggs
\n2 tablespoons milk
\n3 teaspoons Essence
\n5 teaspoons house seasoning
\n1 cup fine dry breadcrumbs
\n1\/2 cup corn meal
\n1\/2 cup all-purpose flour<\/p>\n
To make the filling Mix 4 ounces of cream cheese, shredded cheese, cumin, cayenne. You can just double the recipe and make one batch all the same.\u00a0 The consensus here was that both were nice and neither stood out as a winner. For coating the poppers you will need 3 shallow dishes, one with flour, one with an egg wash and the last with the bread coating. Assemble the items needed for coating the poppers.\u00a0 Mix 1\/2 cup of flour with 2 teaspoons of house seasoning in a shallow dish and sit aside.\u00a0 Now beat 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of essence and 1 teaspoon of house seasoning with 2 tbl of Milk, place in a shallow dish and sit aside.\u00a0 Stir 1\/2 cup corn meal, 1 cup bread crumbs 2 teaspoons of essence 2 teaspoons of house seasoning place in a shallow dish and sit a side.<\/p>\n If you are going to freeze these for later be sure to get a tray that fits in your freezer.\u00a0 You will want to freeze these until solid (or overnight) and repackage. Prepare a tray by lining with parchment paper.\u00a0 Fill the halved peppers with the cream cheese mixture, no need to be neat or try to shape them this will come when you roll in the bread crumbs.\u00a0 Once you have them all filled it is time to start your assembly line for coating.\u00a0 If you can get help it is best for one person to roll in flour and coat in the egg mixture.\u00a0 This keeps the crumb rollers hands cleaner to shape and press the crumbs in, otherwise you get club fingers.\u00a0 Repeat (flour, egg, crumbs) in till all are coated.\u00a0 While you are coating in the crumbs you can shape them nicely. Place your tray in the freezer until solid, then re-package in your preferred method and place in freezer for long term storage.\u00a0 We put them in packages of ~6 and used the vacuum seal bags.\u00a0 They store nicely. And into the freezer! <\/p>\n So our jalapeno plant was very busy and gave us more fruits than we could use, maybe that is because I never got to can salsa. I was on a quest all last season to create things I could freeze and cook later. I decided that Kerry and Sam love the idea of melting their faces off with really HOT foods. Why not make poppers? They are totally easy and you more than likely own most of the ingredients required. Good news – outside of the pepper hotness you can adjust how hot these babies are by adding more or less cayenne and by picking different . . . → Read More: Jalapeno Poppers right from the garden<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,142,166,180],"tags":[190,71,176,183,191,192],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-life","category-food-leisure","category-from-the-kitchen","category-garden","category-make-now-serve-later","tag-cook-now-serve-later","tag-cooking","tag-from-the-garden","tag-from-the-kitchen-2","tag-jalapeno","tag-jalapeno-poppers","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nHere are my little darlings all stuffed and waiting on their turn to roll in all the goodness.<\/p>\n
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\nTo cook: bake at 350 ~30 min until golden brown or deep fry.\u00a0 We tossed a couple on the grill for about 5-10 minutes.\u00a0 When the cheese starts to bubble they are done.\u00a0 So far we have deep fried, baked and grilled.\u00a0 All of them turn out nicely and all are acceptable cooking methods.
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\nThese were baked.\u00a0 ENJOY!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"