Advice Needed!

[Randiman1]

:wave Good Morning everybody! :wave

OK... a couple days ago i stuffed some jalapenos with cream cheese and baked them in the oven for about 30 mins. (Excellent snacks, and they help you get your water down.) Anyway now i want to stuff the jalapeno with Velveeta cheese. Being the inexperienced cook that I am I have no idea how I can bake that without the cheese melting all over everything in the oven. Any Suggestions?


THANKS!

[Richt]

Re: Advice Needed!

:wave Good Morning everybody! :wave

OK... a couple days ago i stuffed some jalapenos with cream cheese and baked them in the oven for about 30 mins. (Excellent snacks, and they help you get your water down.) Anyway now i want to stuff the jalapeno with Velveeta cheese. Being the inexperienced cook that I am I have no idea how I can bake that without the cheese melting all over everything in the oven. Any Suggestions?


THANKS!

Could you put the jalapenos on a piece of silver foil / paper and then throw it away when finished? Or how about covering the dish?

Just a couple of suggestions I dont know how possible it will be

Rich

[MotherOfGizmo]

Velveeta is a processed cheese that you should be avoiding. That being said, I would say the best way to do it if you're gonna eat it anyway is to freeze the velveeta first...of course cut it up before you freeze it. Those fried cheese sticks that you get at restaruants don't run out of the breading when fried because they are thrown in the grease when frozen and have enough time to melt a little but not too much before they are ready.

[Randiman1]

Thank you for letting me know about the cheese being processed. Do you know of any other kind of cheese that i could still stuff the jalapenos with? ( i haven't ate any velveeta yet That was just the first cheese that came to mind) I am just really craving some jalapeno poppers! YUM!

[MotherOfGizmo]

Cheddar would be good. also try it with shrimp instead of cheese--they are wonderful!

[2big4mysize]

any hard cheese will work
cut your cheese to the size your Atkins can handle and freeze it. then cut and stuff your peppers with the frozen cheese. bake as usual the cheese will melt and the pepppers cook. you can coat them in crushed porkrinds and bake or deep fry too. just remember to count all your carbs.

glad you didn't eat that velveta

[scott123]

Although I love eating cheddar at room temp and making cheese sauce with it, melted cheddar in a popper will be a pretty far cry from what you are used to. The traditional filling for commercial poppers is american cheese. There are a few brands out there, that although not safe for induction, have ingredients that are perfectly acceptable. Kraft Deli Deluxe is what I use. Here are the ingredients:

Ingredients: AMERICAN CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), MILKFAT, WATER, SODIUM CITRATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (COLOR), ANNATTO (COLOR) WITH STARCH ADDED FOR SLICE SEPARATION.

It has a few chemicals in it, but compared to the nasty stuff that's in something like pepperoni, these are extremely benign compounds. I wouldn't eat homemade deli deluxe filled poppers every day, but once in a while wouldn't hurt, especially when you compare the end product with a cheddar filled version. Night and day.

Freezing cheese is a crap shot. I believe that mozzerella sticks freeze well because they are flash frozen. Although I hear of many people who have successfully frozen cheese, I have heard of just as many that have trashed cheese in the process. Since you aren't frying your poppers, I'd bake the jalepenos a bit , let them cool enough to handle and then stuff them with the american cheese. Then toss them back in the oven long enough to melt the cheese a bit.

[scott123]

And don't forget the sour cream for dipping

[NulloModo]

Sour cream? The only proper dipping sauces for poppers are marinara and blue cheese dressing .

[scott123]

Sour cream? The only proper dipping sauces for poppers are marinara and blue cheese dressing .

Marinara and blue cheese? Really? That would make me... wrong.

Drats!

Well, as I appear to be talking out of my behind when it comes to this subject anyway, I think I'll go even further out on a limb and recommend guacamole

[calyn320]

You can also cut the jalepeno in half, add a slice of cheese, then wrap in half slice of bacon and bake. I use this with the cream cheese and they are better than poppers!!

[NulloModo]

Oh yeah, the bacon is a great addition.

Scott - Guacamole actually sounds like it would pair up really good, but maybe if you had some of that sour cream as well for that cool tang... or even better, Crema Mexicana.

[Erasmus]

The proper cheese is Jack cheese.

If you have your heart set on baking them (as opposed to frying) I suggest a muffin pan with 2 or 3 per cup so that they stand up.

And.... a little bacon never hurt anything.



I have, somewhere, the recipe for the world's best peanut butter cookies and the secret ingredient is....bacon grease. :yes

[KimberBoh]

Erasmus, do tell.

[MotherOfGizmo]

I think pepper jack is a little overkill since you already have your jalepenos but that is just my opinion. I slice my peppers down the long way and scoup out the seeds and then you just have a slit that you can position upward on the sheet and you don't have to worry about the cheese running out that way, I do mine w/ bacon. You can also do them this way and stuff a peeled and deveined shrimp inside the pepper, wrap it in bacon skewer it and cook it on the grill, they are delicious!