Jalapeno Peppers continue to rise in being one of my grilled favorites...and I say they are PROLIFIC in the number of recipes you can do with Jalapeno Peppers.
As the chili head in me has grown. I've come to find some great ways to slap these spicy green morsels from heaven on the grill. Wrapped, stuffed, plain, seasoned, unseasoned, plain, cheesed up, and cheesed out. It's not just about the Sweet BBQ Sauce we use for dipping or that we infuse into the ground beef...or pork...or lamb...or shrimp. It's about the fusion of flavors that we get when the goodies from the grilled Jalapenos...slightly charred and tender meet the palette of your mouth. It happens to be one of the biggest surprises for those non-chili heads in the crowd as well.
This happens to be one of our first recipes in blog form...expect many more in the future as we exhaust the ways you can grill a Jalapeno Pepper for the enjoyment of your friends and family.
Here's version 1...
Grilled Stuffed Jalapenos...a la Sweet Life!
Prep Time to Get Peppers Ready: 15 minutes
Prep time to make stuffing for Peppers: about 10 minutes
Cooking Time on the Grill: about 20 to 30 minutes
Optional prep time to come up with some system to mark which peppers are going to be REALLY hot and which ones are going to be kinda mild: maybe 3 minutes
Total prep and cooking time to amaze your friends and family (also known as hanging out time and impressing time): You have about 45 minutes to an hour of dazzle time with this one.
Experience Level needed to pull off WOW Factor: Beginner
How many people can you serve: For the friend who brags on how they LOVE hot stuff…mark the one you left all the seeds and membrane in…she will only be having half of it. For the other people you can bank on one to two Peppers each. This is an easy recipe to make a big batch or make a small batch.
Pepper Ingredients:
Grab some fresh Jalapeno Peppers from your local Farmers Market or favorite grocery. Try to get medium to large sized Jalapeno Peppers. Say 20 to 30 of them.
Stuffing Ingredients:
1 Pound of Ground Beef
1- Medium Sweet Onion Diced up into small pieces
1- TBS Symphony of Seasonings Grilling Rub from Sweet Life Sauce Company
½ -Cup Sweet Life BBQ Sauce from Sweet Life Sauce Company
½ to ¾ - Cup of Cream Cheese
Directions:
•You might get some gloves on for this part..unless you are a chili head...then it probably won't matter
•Wash your peppers and cut the stems off
•This will leave an opening in the top of the pepper you will use to get the seeds and membrane out of each pepper
•Take a skinny paring knife or grab a Popsicle stick that you can jam down in the pepper to remove the membrane and seeds to turn the heat down on the peppers. The more membrane and seeds you leave in the peppers, the hotter they will be
•Be sure to have at least one for that friend of yours that brags how she likes hot food…don’t touch that pepper after you cut the top off
•Mix the Ground beef, Symphony of Seasonings, Sweet Life BBQ Sauce, and Onions together in a bowl.
•Place a Teaspoon or so of Cream Cheese into the bottom of each Pepper
•Stuff each pepper with the Ground beef mixture until it reaches the top of the pepper
•Place the pepper on low direct heat on the grill…it would be really cool if you used a pepper grilling plate made for the purpose
•Cook on the grill for 20 to 30 minutes…look for the peppers to be charred and the juices to be flowing from the ground beef mixture
•Keep your eye on the one for your friend who likes hot foods…she will not be let down.
•Remove from the heat and let the peppers rest before you serve
•Get your camera out from behind your back and have your friend eat the first one that you have set aside for her….
•For the rest of your guests, it is time to serve them up with some Sweet Life BBQ Sauce!
Enjoy!
Grilled Jalapeno Peppers...version 2 on deck! Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Peppers stuffed with...well...you'll just have to wait.
And as we say at Sweet Life Sauce Company...
ALL is well in the land!
