Smoked Gouda & Ham Jalapeño Poppers
Ingredients:
10 large jalapeño peppers
1 loving cup matzo repast or breadstuff crumbs
1 loving cup flour
two eggs, beaten
filling
four oz soft caprine animal cheese
1/2 loving cup shredded smoked Gouda
1/4 loving cup diced smoked (lean) ham
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon pose down chipotle
Directions:
Line a baking sail alongside parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350. Mash all of the filling ingredients together until fairly polish in addition to the ingredients are good distributed. Slice the peppers inwards one-half or cutting a slit downward the middle of ane side of the pepper in addition to exit it whole.
Remove the seeds. Fill alongside filling mixture.
Dredge each popper inwards the flour, dip into the egg, thence dredge inwards the matzo repast or crumbs to coat.
Place inwards a unmarried layer, cutting side up, on the lined baking sheet. Bake until the crust is golden in addition to the pepper is hot all the agency through, almost xxx minutes.
My thoughts:
I bring to acknowledge that until I made these, I had never genuinely had a jalapeño popper. The few times I bring seen them listed on menus, they are e'er fried. While I practise dearest fried foods (who doesn't?)the persuasion of frying something that is stuffed alongside that much cheese makes me experience a petty queasy. So I persuasion I'd drive my manus at this gourmet-ish baked version. I know they are typically stuffed alongside petty to a greater extent than than a mixture of cheeses (and perhaps a combat of crab or bacon) but I persuasion a combat of ham would hold upwardly fun in addition to help cutting the oestrus a bit. I dearest smoky flavors thence I went all out using smoky spices (and cheese! in addition to ham!) but it all melded together in addition to was a bully contrast to the creamy caprine animal cheese in addition to conduct upwardly hot jalapeño. The poppers tasted almost grilled which took the sting out of them beingness baked rather than fried. They are only every bit crispy exterior in addition to gooey within every bit they would bring been fried (I admit, I did a exam fried popper to compare in addition to contrast) but non every bit heavy tasting.Note: If you lot genuinely desire heat, expect for peppers at your local farmers market. The jalapeño peppers sold at regular supermarkets are frequently pack less oestrus than their local cousins.
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