Jalapeño Chicken Poppers Recipe

Make the best jalapeño appetizers with this jalapeño chicken poppers recipe.  These stuffed hot peppers are filled with chicken, bacon, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, ranch dressing mix and then wrapped in bacon.   

We decided to add a twist to these jalapeño appetizers today.  We have always filled our jalapeños with cheese or cheese and sausage but we thought it might be fun to make chicken poppers.    And since our Chicken bundles are so popular we thought we would also use canned chicken to make chicken poppers.  Then we really upped the flavor by adding even more bacon in the stuffing. 

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This recipe could be used for just about any stuffed hot peppers, not just jalapeños.  

Jalapeño chicken poppers recipe:

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Instructions:

Other Appetizers:

• Sausage Stuffed Jalapeno poppers
• Seven-layer Mexican Dip
• Sweet and Spicy BBQ Chicken Nachos
• Jalapeno Popper Dip 

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Make the best jalapeños appetizers with this jalapeño chicken poppers recipe.  These stuffed hot peppers are filled with chicken, bacon, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, ranch dressing mix and then wrapped in bacon.   

Evelyn Osborn

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 23 minutes mins

Total Time 38 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine American, Mexican, Tex Mex

Servings 10

Calories 356 kcal

Equipment

• cooking sheet

Ingredients

  

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• 10 Jalapeños
• 2 12.5 oz. cans of chicken
• 1 cup mild cheddar cheese shredded
• 1 cup bacon bits
• 2 8 oz packages cream cheese
• 1/2 packet Ranch Dressing Mix powdered
• 1 pound Bacon

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• 
  Open cans of chicken and drain then place in a large bowl.  Using a fork, break up the pieces of chicken. 
  
• Add your cream cheese, shredded cheese, bacon, and ranch mix. Mix until well combined.
• Cut your jalapeños in half lengthwise and cut out and remove the center and seeds.
• 
  Take your chicken mixture and scoop it into the jalapeños with a spoon and pile them up with the mixture
• 
  Wrap each jalapeño with a strip of bacon and then place the bacon-wrapped jalapeños on a large baking sheet. 
• Place them in the preheated 350 degrees F oven for 15 minutes.  After 15 minutes turn up the heat to 450 degrees F and bake for another 8 minutes watching carefully. 
• You can serve these chicken poppers with Ranch Dip or just enjoy them by themselves

Nutrition

Calories: 356kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 16gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 42mgSodium: 896mgPotassium: 170mgFiber: 3gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 281IUVitamin C: 17mgCalcium: 109mgIron: 1mg

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