Jalapeno Poppers with Chorizo

hey guys I'm Matt welcome to the meet Church Lake compound and today I'm going to show you guys one of my favorite appetizers that we're gonna kick up a notch it could even be a meal jalapeno poppers [Music] first thing we're going to do is we're going to prepare our jalapenos so we've got a bunch of fresh jalapenos here what I like to do is just kind of you know cut about a two-inch portion just like so I don't want it I personally don't like them being this long so I can wrap them good and bacon about that big it's perfect for me you can use some sort of tool to core them out this is something that I bought it first Monday here in Canton this is also a little preference thing I'm gonna go down here and kind of cut these veins out seeds and just core them out the heat in a jalapeno really comes from these veins so if you want them to be more hot don't cut as much out if you want to not be so hot take a lot out next we're just gonna cut each one of them in half like this next we're gonna build our stuffing traditional jalapeno poppers have a block of cream cheese just inside of the pepper and wrapped in bacon I'm gonna kick mine up a couple notches we've sauteed one tube of pork chorizo in a cast-iron skillet we're gonna add the block of cream cheese to that and then we're gonna add our honey hog rub to taste so I'm gonna put quite a bit in here we're gonna mix it thoroughly and we're gonna add it to the boats and then wrap them in bacon I've taken this cream cheese and let it set out for a little bit to try to soften and to make this easy I'm just gonna mix it right in the skillet here and we're gonna add a bunch of our hunting hog to taste you've got other options you could use our honey pecan rub you could use our honey bacon rub or your favorite barbecue rub kind of do it to taste mix it up real thoroughly I like tree so in my jalapeno poppers but you've got a lot of options you know I've put ground beef in here I put venison some people use crab things like that so play with it add you know just different sort of stuffing just kind of do your liking this makes it a lot more Hardy so like I said you know you could kind of make this for a meal if you wanted to we've got our cream cheese in chorizo and honey hog mixture to the consistency we want now it's gonna be simple we're actually going to scoop this mixture into the little boats we've created and I'm gonna wrap each of these boats in a half a slice of regular bacon not thick bacon and then I'm gonna season those with more honey hog and we're gonna put them on the smoker so what I'm trying to do here is completely fill these boats and not overfill them because that mixture will just run out during the cook so I want to maximize this cool kind of creamy mixture in the jalapeno but not go too much finally we're gonna wrap these boats we've created and a half a slice of regular bacon and we're gonna add more hunting hogs seasoning on the top this is easiest to do barehanded to be honest with use to wash your hands real good and wrap this around so all right here we go I start right at the top and I just want to thoroughly cover this jalapeno and now you can really see why I cut these jalapenos down to not their full size I want to make sure that the bacon covers the entire boat again something you can play with if you want to leave the jalapeno whole have at it just like that total coverage when you've cut them to this size and you get total coverage with the bacon there's really no need for a toothpick to hold it in place the bacon will just cook and stay on here perfectly a little jalapeno babies are wrapped snug in their bacon blankets and I'm gonna add some more seasoning I'm gonna switch it up go with my honey bacon little bacon on bacon action never hurt anybody going pretty liberal and I'm gonna let this sit here for about ten minutes and then we're headed over to the smoker we put our jalapeno poppers on the rack here this will make it easier to go in and out of smoker one time instead of opening it up and having to put in 50 different pieces or so we've got our trigger timberline set at 275 degrees with hickory this should take 60 to 90 minutes it depends on the thickness of the bacon that you used and our neighbors next door they're using the trigger right now or loan in some grill space here we go I'm gonna come back and check them in about an hour and see if they're where I want them probably go I'm gonna say probably bout 90 minutes oh look at those all right so these poppers went about an hour and 20 minutes I told you they're 60 to 90 minutes depending on the thickness of your bacon this bacon was a little thinner than what I normally work with you can see this beautiful color on here that's from the honey bacon barbecue on top I've let them cool for a few minutes so that I can eat them no toothpick needed you see all that bacon held nicely this is the perfect snack all that trees so inside it's gonna be nice and hearty life good November Levi who had made famous in our bologna video Levi come here also you be the judge sit I'm gonna try good boy good good you another one your daddy will get mad at me all right you guys like these trial make them at home put some different stuffings in them make them your own see what you guys like if you like this video please subscribe to our channel we drop a new cooking video every week get outside cook something for your friends we'll see y'all next time [Music]

Channel: Meat Church BBQ

Views: 420,840

Keywords: Meat Church, jalapeno poppers, ABTs, jalapeno, traeger, traeger grills, bbq

Id: uptRBNNc0aY

Length: 7min 1sec (421 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 30 2020