This easy to prepare dinner recipe captures the flavors of one of my favorite guilty pleasure appetizers. The process of preparing Bacon Wrapped Jalapeño Popper Chicken simple. Chicken is pounded thin, and stuffed with a combination of cream cheese, chopped jalapeños, and cheddar cheese, before it is wrapped in bacon. It’s a pretty fool-proof meal that anyone would love. It takes about an hour to make from start to finish, but the active preparation time is only 10 minutes.
I tested this Bacon Wrapped Jalapeño Popper Chicken recipe a few times to get it perfect. The trick is to make sure that the cream cheese doesn’t melt out of the chicken breast. There are two keys to preventing this. The first is to use a big solid chunk of cream cheese – and don’t use whipped cream cheese, it will melt too much. Secondly, you need to carefully wrap up the chicken. Make sure that the chicken is completely wrapped around the cream cheese, jalapeño, and cheddar, and that the bacon is nice and tight to hold it all together. I promise this is easier than it might sound, but the end result isn’t as appetizing or delicious if you don’t take care with these steps.
If you want to shave off a little time you can buy thin cut chicken breasts at the grocery store. And if you want to make this recipe slightly healthier, you can use one slice prosciutto to wrap up each chicken breast. Prosciutto has less fat and fewer calories compared to bacon, and I love how prosciutto gets crispy when you bake it, I think it is even better than bacon (bold statement, I kn0w).
Bacon Wrapped Jalapeño Popper Chicken
Yields 4
Prep Time : 10 min
Cook Time : 55 min
Total Time :1 hr, 5
Ingredients :
- 4 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 4 ounces of Cream Cheese, cut into bit chunks (not whipped)
- 8 Jalapenos
- 1/2 cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- 8 slices of Bacon
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