Lately I have been adding miso to almost everything I cook to see if it enhances the flavor. It does quite often. But only a few recipes are special enough to share. This Jalapeño Poppers with Italian Meatballs and Miso Recipe is one of them.
Jalapeño Poppers with Italian Meatballs and Miso
I recently made Miso Caramel Chicken Wings and absolutely fell in love with the taste of miso. So I started experimenting with adding it to other dishes. It improved many of them. Then I started working on creating recipes of my favorite foods that would highlight the flavor of miso.
Jalapeño Poppers with Italian Meatballs and Miso are one of the best recipes I have created so far. Let me know what you think and if you have any miso recipes I should try.
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.
How to Cut and Clean Jalapeños for Poppers (With Pictures)
Click the links below to how to make any style Jalapeño Popper cut.
Jalapeño Poppers with Italian Meatballs and Miso Recipe
Lately I have been adding miso to almost everything I cook to see if it enhances the flavor. It does quite often. But only a few recipes are special enough to share. This Jalapeño Poppers with Italian Meatballs and Miso Recipe is one of them.
Ingredients (See Box Above, "IMPORTANT - About Our Recipes" for Information about Quantities)
- Jalapeño Peppers (I recommend the Canoe Cut for this Jalapeño Popper due to the amount and size of the ingredients)
- Salt and freshly ground Black Pepper to taste
- Cream Cheese
- White Miso
- Italian Meatballs cooked and cut into 1/2 or 1/4 if larger than will fit into a jalapeño
- Bacon to wrap
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cut the jalapeños into a boat 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.) Set jalapeños aside.
- Smear a good helping of miso on top of cream cheese on each jalapeño.
- Add a meatball or pieces of a meatball to comfortably fill up each jalapeño. Press meat down into miso/cream cheese slightly.
- Wrap bacon around each jalapeño. Secure with a toothpick, if you like.
- Place jalapeños back on cookie sheet and place back in oven.
- Cook, watching closely, until cream cheese is hot and bubbling and bacon is done, about 15 - 20 minutes. Check to make sure jalapeños and bacon 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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Recipe is original. Photo by Mark. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.
