Jalapeños Cream Cheese Chicken Food

JALAPENO STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH CREAM CHEESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside. In each of the chicken breasts, cut a slit horizontally without going all the way through to the other side.
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add jalapenos and garlic and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes. Add cream cheese to the skillet and stir until cheese is melted. Add cheddar cheese and stir until melted.
• Divide the mixture between the 6 breasts and spoon into openings. Seal the ends and secure with toothpicks. Place the chicken in the prepared baking dish and bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Remove toothpicks and serve warm.

CHEESE AND JALAPENO STUFFED CHICKEN BREAST

Steps:

• pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• grease baking dish.
• cut a pouch in each chicken breast fillet, careful not to poke through
• spread 1 Tbsp cream cheese in each pouch.
• add 1/4 shredded cheese in each pouch.
• add diced jalapeños to each pouch (more or less than 1/2 a jalapeño per chicken breast depending on your spice level preference)
• sprinkle garlic salt, chili powder and pepper on top of fillets to taste.
• wrap 2 pieces of bacon around each fillet
• secure each bacon piece with 1 toothpick near the opening of the pouch to keep fillet together.
• place in oven
• bake for 30 minutes.

JALAPEñOS CREAM CHEESE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butterfly chicken breasts to as even a thickness as possible.
• Sprinkle both sides of chicken with garlic powder to your taste.
• Cut jalapeños in half and remove seeds and membranes, then dice.
• Dice onion.
• Combine cream cheese, diced onion, jalapeños and soup-mix together well.
• Spray baking pan with cooking spray.
• Place each chicken breast out flat on pan.
• Spread cream cheese mixture equally on each chicken breast.
• Top each breast equally with bread crumbs. *(I use unseasoned crumbs because the soup-mix is a bit salty).
• Place in oven for 40-45 minutes. Check halfway through cooking time and cover with foil if needed (ovens can vary, so you may or may not need to do so).

JALAPENO CHICKEN CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cook chicken breasts until done.
• In a large skillet saute onions in margarine.
• Drain spinach by using several paper towels to squeeze all water out of spinach.
• Add spinach, jalapenos, sour cream, chicken soup, salt, and ground cumin to onions and mix well.
• In a greased 9x13 inch baking dish, layer half of tortilla chips, half of chicken, half spinach soup mixture, and 1/2 cheese.
• Repeat layers again , but without the cheese.
• Bake covered at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
• Uncover and sprinkle remaining cheese over top and return to oven for 4 minutes or until the cheese melts.

SMOKED CREAM CHEESE CHICKEN JALAPENO POPPERS

Steps:

• Freeze the jalapenos in a baggie in the freezer the night before you want to cook them.
• Take them out of the freezer, cut off the tops and scrape out the seeds. Much easier when frozen. Freezing them also takes out a bit of the heat.
• Squeeze 1/2 package of cream cheese into jalapeno.
• Stuff a piece of grilled chicken strip into cream cheese.
• Place poppers into holder and put them in the smoker for 45 minutes.
• Serve while hot as an appetizer.