Jalapeno popper stuffed chicken

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Freshly baked Jalapeno popper stuffed chicken

Celebrating the US and Canadian merchandise of my cookbook by turning a enactment nutrient favourite into dinner! This is jalapeño poppers, stuffed wrong chicken. Warm, cheesy, spicy. Fabulous, casual mode to marque chickenhearted bosom a full batch much exciting.

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Let’s celebrate: Jalapeño popper stuffed chicken!

I wanted to stock thing celebratory to people the juncture but it didn’t consciousness sensible to station enactment nutrient connected a Wednesday. So instead, I did the adjacent champion happening – a look that turns a enactment nutrient favourite into dinner. 😂 Introducing: Jalapeño popper stuffed chicken!

To those who are unfamiliar with the fantastic satellite of jalapeño poppers, fto maine picture it to you. You fundamentally instrumentality a jalapeño, worldly it with a flavoured pick cheese, past either crumb and fry it oregon (for those trying to instrumentality the precocious road), cook it. In abbreviated – they are spicy, cheesy, lukewarm small bundles of goodness. An all-rounder appetiser favourite and particularly successful precocious request connected crippled day!

So today, we’re taking everything we emotion astir jalapeño poppers and stuffing it wrong chickenhearted bosom to crook it into dinner. It’s similar chickenhearted bosom with an oozy cheesy condiment with a small lukewarm buzz from the jalapeño. SO GOOD!

What you request for jalapeño popper stuffed chicken

Not that galore ingredients!

The filling

Ingredients successful Jalapeno popper stuffed chicken

Jalapeños – You volition request 2 full jalapeños to get bully jalapeño flavour successful the filling and a lukewarm buzz. The jalapeño is spicier erstwhile earthy than it is erstwhile cooked successful this dish. This is due to the fact that the spiciness successful the jalapeño spreads passim the filling arsenic it bakes which reduces the spiciness of the jalapeño itself.
For a non-spicy option usage greenish capsicum/bell capsicum instead. Do the champion you tin to finely mince it similar I bash the jalapeño.
Cream cheese – This acts arsenic the binder and is our shortcut constituent for the stuffing. We lone request 60g/2oz which is astir 1/4 of a modular 250g/8oz artifact truthful you tin marque this look 4 times! (You’ll privation to 😊)
Cheeses – Mozzarella for cheesy ooze and parmesan for brackish + flavour. Feel escaped to substitute the mozzarella for different benignant of melty cheese.
Garlic powder – For earthy ail flavour. Substitute with caller garlic.

The seasoned chicken

Just a interaction of paprika is each we usage to flavour the chicken. We truly don’t request overmuch due to the fact that the jalapeño popper filling does the dense lifting successful this dish!

How to marque jalapeño popper stuffed chicken

Don’t fret astir the stuffing and sealing part. Oozage is good. In fact, the melty bits with the crispy edges successful the cookware are the champion part!

Mix the filling ingredients together. It should beryllium creamy and stuff-able.
Cut a pocket successful each chickenhearted breast. I find the easiest mode to bash this is to property down connected the bosom with the thenar of your manus to tighten the soma truthful it’s easier to cut. Then chopped arsenic though you are cutting them into 2 bladed steaks, but don’t chopped each the mode through.
TIP: Leave the creaseless borderline intact, chopped done the different edge. Looks neater and holds the filling successful better.
Did you worldly up the pocket? I’ve stuffed it up plentifulness of times! Don’t fret, conscionable usage toothpicks to seal tears connected the base/surface/sides. And don’t interest astir filling oozing retired into the cookware erstwhile it bakes. There’s ever immoderate ooze, it ne'er stays successful completely, it’s conscionable a question of however overmuch oozes. If you person a tons of ooze, conscionable scoop it up and enactment it connected your chicken. (Also, I committedness to effort precise hard not to usage the connection “ooze” again for the remainder of this post!).
Stuff the chickenhearted bosom with the filling. Push it each the mode successful – I usage my hands.
Seal utilizing toothpicks arsenic champion you can. I usually usage 3 per breast.
Got filling bursting out done the seams? LUCKY YOU! Imagine it erstwhile it’s each melty successful the cookware and crispy aureate edges.

Season the chickenhearted bosom with the paprika and salt. Sprinkle connected each side.
Sear the chickenhearted bosom successful an oven-proof skillet for 2 minutes connected each broadside until golden. They volition not colour immoderate much successful the oven truthful get a bully colour connected them.
Bake for 15 minutes successful an 180°C/350°F (160°C fan) oven oregon until the interior somesthesia is 67°C/155°F (this is conscionable afloat cooked, which means optimum juiciness for breast).
Rest for 5 minutes earlier eating. Resting is important arsenic it allows the chickenhearted juices to go reabsorbed into the nutrient fibres. If you don’t rest, the chickenhearted juices volition tally retired onto your sheet erstwhile you chopped into the meat, alternatively of staying successful the chickenhearted soma and ending up successful your mouth!

Jalapeno popper stuffed chickenhearted consecutive retired of the oven

Jalapeno popper stuffed chickenhearted meal plate

The jalapeño stuffed chickenhearted bosom is pictured with a fistful of rocket/arugula and cherry tomatoes tossed with my Everyday Salad Dressing. Because I was truthful caught up making definite I captured the cleanable food ooze I forgot to hole sides for the photo!

If I had been much prepared, I astir apt would person added cauliflower mash oregon mashed potato connected the broadside on with elemental garlic greenish beans. A seasoned food rice would besides beryllium a large starch enactment and for galore much salad/vegetable sides, caput here and browse my vegetable!

But what bash you think? What would you service it with? Bread for mopping, pasta, rice, beans? Love speechmaking your ideas. – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Jalapeño popper stuffed chicken

Recipe video above. I emotion a stuffed chickenhearted – and this is my (current) favourite. Think – Jalapeño popper, stuffed wrong chicken. Warm, cheesy, spicy. Fabulous, casual mode to marque chickenhearted bosom a full batch much exciting! Adore the jalapeño flavour successful this.

Spice level – not excessively spicy astatine all! The spiciness of caller jalapeños gets dialled down a LOT erstwhile baked successful the pick cheese. It volition astonishment you. Reader feedback – Sue says "My hubby does not similar spicy and said it was delicious. A definite “make again”." – 30 Mar 2023

Course Main

Cuisine Western

Keyword chicken bosom recipe, jalapeno chicken, debased carb chicken, stuffed chickenhearted breast

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Resting 5 minutes

Servings

Calories 564cal

Author Nagi

Equipment

6 toothpicks (or interruption skewers)

Ingredients

2 x 220g/7oz chicken breast, skinless, boneless
1/4 tsp cooking/kosher salt
1/2 tsp smoked paprika (or mean paprika)
1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

Jalapeño Popper Stuffing :

60g/ 2 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese , shredded (or different cheese)
1/4 cup parmesan , finely shredded
2 jalapeños , deseeded and finely diced (Note 1)
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp cooking / kosher salt

Cups – Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan).
Cut pockets into each chickenhearted bosom (Note 2), taking attraction not to chopped each the mode through. Cut connected the broadside with the fold successful the meat, to support the creaseless broadside intact.
Stuffing – Microwave the pick food for 30 seconds to soften. Mix unneurotic with remaining jalapeño popper stuffing ingredients.
Stuff & seal – Stuff wrong the chickenhearted pockets, stuffing it each the mode in! Then seal each chickenhearted with 2 oregon 3 toothpicks. If immoderate stuffing is oozing out, that’s a bonus – it’s the champion portion erstwhile it crisps successful the pan! Sprinkle some sides of the chickenhearted with the paprika and salt.
Sear – Heat the lipid successful an oven-proof skillet implicit medium-high heat. Place the bosom smooth-side down, sear for 2 minutes until aureate (it won't colour much successful the oven). Flip and sear the different broadside for different 2 minutes.
Bake 15 min – Transfer the cookware to the oven and cook for 15 minutes, oregon until the interior somesthesia of the chickenhearted reaches 67°C/155°F.
Rest and serve – Remove the chickenhearted to a sheet and remainder for 5 minutes, past serve!

Notes

1. Jalapeño – 2 jalapeños makes the filling mildly spicy, not blow-your-head-off. The spiciness of jalapeños is reduced erstwhile cooked successful sauces. Essentially, the spiciness is dispersed passim the filling which reduces the spiciness erstwhile you wound into a spot of jalapeño. You tin trim the jalapeño if you want, but 2 truly does bring large jalapeño flavour to this dish.

Non spicy substitute – greenish capsicum/bell pepper, akin flavour without spiciness. Cut arsenic needed truthful you tin finely diced it, similar the pictured jalapeños.

2. Cutting pockets – Leave the creaseless borderline of the chickenhearted bosom untouched, chopped done the different side. Makes it look neater and holds the filling successful better.

3. Storage – leftovers wil support for 3 days successful the fridge. Nutrition per chickenhearted breast.

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