Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese = Grown-up grilled cheese!
This isn’t your basic kids’ grilled cheese — why not kick it up a notch by jalapeño poppering yours, and enjoy!
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 4 jalapeño peppers (adjust quantities to taste)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 8 slices sourdough bread
- butter
- 8 pieces cooked bacon
- sliced or shredded cheddar
Instructions
- Remove stems from your jalapeños, scrape out the membranes and seeds, then dice.
- Saute diced peppers in olive oil over medium heat until softened and starting to brown.
- Add garlic and saute briefly, then remove from heat and stir peppers & garlic into cream cheese.
- Spread one side of each slice of bread with butter.
- Spread the jalapeño-cream cheese mixture thickly on the other side of one piece of bread, then place butter-side-down in cast iron grill pan or skillet.
- Add bacon, breaking pieces to fit on sandwich, then add shredded or sliced cheddar to taste.
- Top with the second piece of bread, butter-side-up.
- Cook each side of your sandwich over medium heat until both sides are browned and your cheese is nicely melted, then enjoy.
Notes
Note: Make these in batches -- my small grill pan makes one sandwich at a time; my large skillet makes two. If you hate chopping peppers as much as I do, just give them a short whirl in a little food chopper.