Jalapeño Poppers with Feta Cheese, Walnuts and Fresh Pears tastes like a fresh baked little pear mini-pie – for jalapeño lovers. 😉 Some of your friends will not “get” this recipe. But since you are reading this, if you like pears, walnuts and feta, you will LOVE these.

Jalapeño Poppers with Feta Cheese, Walnuts and Fresh Pears

This is an Experimental, Jalapeño Poppers-Lover Recipe. I develop these recipes to have fun, taste new tastes and push the boundaries of what a Jalapeño Popper can be. I welcome comments, innovations and improvements on ALL recipes – but especially these.

Here is what I did —

I tried these first with just feta cheese, but it seemed to disappear in the finished popper (taste wise) and developed a weird texture when cooked. It didn’t melt but just stayed crumbled. This made it hard to eat the poppers in more than one bite as the cheese and other ingredient would fall out of the remaining jalapeno.

So I experimented to find a better solution.

First, I added more feta to try and improve the taste. This didn’t help the texture, of course, and didn’t do a lot for the taste either. It still seemed to not be there at all. I don’t think you can get as much feta into the small area of a jalapeno as you need for the right balance of flavors.

I tried cooking them longer but this didn’t melt the feta. This is a bad idea anyway since this also cooks all the other ingredients too long. You don’t want to burn everything else just to melt the cheese.

So, I went back to that old jalapeno popper stand-by, cream cheese. And this solved both problems. Since the cheeses melted together, the texture was better and the poppers were easier to eat. And the taste balanced out quite nicely. It’s not that perfect feta taste I wanted, but it is quite good.

About the Recipes

One thing you will notice immediately is that most of our recipes do not have quantities listed for the ingredients. This is by design.

Jalapeños come in many different sizes and shapes (often depending upon the time of year). Their size, the cut you choose (see below) and your own personal tastes will determine how much cream cheese, bacon or other ingredients you put into each pepper. Use your tastes and be sure to experiment a bit.

You will also notice that most directions call for cooking the poppers in an oven. This is because that is the easiest and quickest way for most of us to cook and enjoy jalapeño poppers year round. But if you want to grill, smoke or cook your poppers any other way – Almost every recipe we have will work. We will let you know if it won’t.

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Jalapeño Poppers with Feta Cheese, Walnuts and Fresh Pears Recipe

Jalapeño Poppers with Feta Cheese, Walnuts and Fresh Pears tastes like a fresh baked little pear mini-pie - for jalapeño lovers, anyway. 😉 Your friends will not "get" this one. But since you are reading this, if you like pears, walnuts and feta, you will LOVE these.

Prep Time30

Active Time30

Total Time1

Course: Dessert

Keyword: Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

Ingredients (See Box Above, "IMPORTANT - About Our Recipes" for Information about Quantities)

Jalapeño Peppers
Salt and freshly ground Black Pepper to taste
Cream Cheese
Feta Cheese crumbled
Fresh Ripe Pears peeled and cut into small chunks
Walnuts cut into small pieces
Brown Sugar for sprinkling

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cut the jalapeños into a canoe cut. (Click the link above to see how to do a Canoe Cut.)
Sprinkle insides of cut jalapeños lightly with salt and pepper, to taste.
Place the jalapeños on a cookie sheet. Place sheet in preheated oven. Cook for about 10 minutes. (Skip this step if you prefer your finished jalapeños to be more raw and crunchy.)
Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly so you can handle them.
Add cream cheese to each jalapeño to cover the bottom, leaving a concave "well" to place other ingredients. (Click the link above to see pictures of this step, if the instructions are unclear to you.)
Add feta cheese crumbles, being sure to mash them into the cream cheese.
Add the pear chunks and walnut piece. Really pack them in tight.
Sprinkle generously with brown sugar.
Place jalapeños back on cookie sheet and place back in oven.
Cook, watching closely, until cream cheese is hot and bubbling, brown sugar has melted and the pear gets a nice brown tint., about 10 - 15 minutes. Check to make sure jalapeños are done to your liking. If not, place back in oven for more time.
Remove from oven when done and enjoy hot.

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