Recipes — jalapeno Popper Recipes

My Surf and Turf Jalapeno Poppers are a twist on the vast culinary applications for jalapeno peppers. When you cut them in half, they look like little cups - perfect vessels for stuffing. The Spanish dubbed the pepper “jalapeno,” which means from Xalapa, Veracruz’s capital. Poppers resemble chilies rellenos. This dish has peppers stuffed with cheese and fried. Chilies Rellenos may well be the inspiration for poppers as we know them today. There are various stories as to when jalapeno poppers were first served. The general consensus is that it began in (or around) 1972 in Texas. Jalapeno poppers were,...