I had a batch of smoked jalapeños that came out awesome last night. Should have taken some pics! Yesterday I picked up some cherry wood pucks for my OBS, and a jalapeño rack at a local outdoor recreation store. Stopped at the grocery store and picked up 24 jalapeños, 1 lb of ground turkey, 1 packet of taco seasoning, cream cheese, and turkey bacon. Obviously I was intending on making this delicacy low-fat.
* Brown 1 lb of turkey, added packet of taco seasoning, and cook as directed then cool to room temperature.
* Cut tops off jalapeños and remove seeds.
* Cut vertical slit in very bottom of the jalapeño so excess juice can drip out while cooking/smoking.
* Mix taco meat and cream cheese
* Stuff the jalapeños with the taco seasoning/cream cheese
* Cut a 2-3 inch piece of bacon and attach to the top of each of the jalapeños and affix with a tooth pick
I smoked these at 200 degrees for 3 hours. They were amazing and disappeared fast. I hope you enjoy my recipe.
Sounds good!
Hmmm... sounds good.
Stupid question, how much cream cheese did you use?
Hi lakestatefishing & tssgery
Welcome to the forum.
The recipe looks good. Would you like to have that posted on our recipe site.
http://www.susanminor.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=180
Dang, where did this guy come from? ??? :D Really nice recipe. Welcome to the forum family! What else you got for us? Thanks for posting and keep it up.
KyNola
Quote from: tssgery on July 08, 2008, 11:53:54 AM
Hmmm... sounds good.
Stupid question, how much cream cheese did you use?
I used the standard size Philadelphia brand.
Looks like a great recipe lakestate , thanks and welcome to the forum.
tssgery, welcome to the forum too. Enjoy.
Sounds great, haven't tried these yet although the wife and I have been talking about them. Thanks for the recipe!
Welcome to the site folks. Thanks for the recipe lakes. Definite must do item.
It does sound great. What is a jalapeno rack?? I guess I have never seen one.
Chrispy
I'm going to make a couple peno racks myself. Can you tell me what size holes are in your racks? I thought 3/4 would work but am now leaning to 1-inch.
Here are a couple designs for those who never seen one.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh46/pensrock/peppergrill01.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh46/pensrock/peppergrill02.jpg)
I wonder if they would fall through the grids of the standard bradley racks.
They can be ordered from.
4thegrill.com
I just ordered the one that holds 24 peppers.
Cabelas also has them in 3 sizes.
Of course I've got to be the stupid one (probably all that mesquite smoke ;D) What is the benefit of using these racks?
C
Not sure yet, until I try one, but I would hope it would help keep the fillings from oozing out. Makes for more latitude in what I put in them for a filling. I did some ABT's and they were great, but want to play with some other ideas.
Quote from: schneep on October 21, 2008, 10:13:19 AM
Not sure yet, until I try one, but I would hope it would help keep the fillings from oozing out. Makes for more latitude in what I put in them for a filling. I did some ABT's and they were great, but want to play with some other ideas.
Had a feeling it might be the ooze factor. I've gotten around that by coring out the pepper and stuff with anything, but then on the cut off end I take a slice of thin deli ham cover it then wrapped in bacon.
(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm56/cjgbrad/IM001811.jpg)
Gonna be curious to hear how it works for ya'll, one can never have to many kitchen gadgets!
C
the rack looks awesome and we need to play with it some