Poppers

Stuffed Grilled-Jalapeno Peppers

Preparation info
  • Makes 24 Poppers, Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

Some people call them poppers. Others call them rattlesnake or armadillo eggs. But whatever you call them, these jalapeño peppers, stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon, and grilled with wood smoke, embody American barbecue at its most ingenious, irreverent, and diabolical. You may be alarmed by the notion of eating an appetizer that has a jalapeño pepper as its primary ingredient (in Texas it might be considered a vegetable side dish). Rest assured that seeding the peppers removes much of