#ARMADILLO EGG FULL#

The amounts listed for cheeses are approximate: The amount of filling you need will depend on the size of your peppers, how full you pipe them, etc. They can be served cold, room temp, or hot - we prefer them reheated. If you leave some of the seeds/ribs in, you can get anywhere between a little heat, to scorching. If you scrape out all of the seeds and ribs from the peppers, they have flavour without heat. This recipe can be tweaked to suit personal taste: These take a little bit of prep work, but are SO worth it.īrave the snow and put some of these on to bring to your holiday potlucks, or just keep them in your fridge for quick snacks. Note: I chose not to salt the chicken, as there is salt from the cheese inside, and salt from the bacon outside it Not only do we serve smoked poppers with ranch dressing, “chicken bacon ranch” felt like a fun direction to go with it. In the end, we decided to go with something fairly basic, using some of the base flavours of ranch dressing. I briefly considered seasoning the chicken the same way I season my Keto Stromboli Meatloaf - as basically a chicken version of Italian Sausage.Īnother possibility was to just go “pepper inception” - I have some hatch chile powder that’s fantastic, after all. If you're anywhere near Hamilton, can eat sausage, and happen to catch them post another batch, GET ON IT!) Elliot armadillo eggs at the same time, we couldn’t really use them as a flavour template - I had no idea how their sausage was seasoned! The resulting armadillo eggs were then hot smoked for flavour AND to cook them through.Īs for that chicken mixture, we were pretty wide open about how we could flavour it.īecause we would be smoking the C.E. The meatified poppers were then wrapped with very thin, restaurant style bacon. A seasoned ground chicken mixture formed around each stuffed jalapeno half. Cream and Cheddar Cheese stuffed Jalapeno halves. In the end, what we came up with was this: (Just in small amounts, 1 a day or whatever). Which meant that my husband could have some, no longer needing chicken bacon. Buying the bacon in bulk meant that we could get the really thin-cut, restaurant-style stuff. So then it made more sense to bulk order ingredients, including the bacon. But then he suggested doing a batch of our original poppers at the same time, as an excuse to smoke all of it. Still not a big deal, I’d cook them in the oven. SO I figured I could order a few jalapenos, some ground chicken, and chicken bacon, and make a version for him. They looked so good, and my husband couldn’t have them. I figured 5 would be good for a week’s worth of low-carb snacks. My husband can’t eat a bunch of pork, so it was just me. They recommended smoking, but said that baking was fine as wellĪfter verifying that there was no gluten and no carbby fillers, I placed a small order. Great stuff!Īnyway, last week they advertised “Armadillo eggs”, which looked fantastic: Cheese stuffed jalapenos, wrapped in sausage, wrapped in bacon. They frequently play around with ingredients, and offer up specials like. Great service, great product, great prices - what’s not to love? Fans message them their orders, pay online, and go pick up at the back door, where it’s brought out to your vehicle. Elliott.Įvery day, they post their offerings on Facebook. There’s a local butcher that I LOOOOVE - C.E. PS: While you've got some bacon, and have the smoker going. This recipe is the result of one of those snowballs 🙂 What was a simple/quick/inexpensive idea becomes a big production. We will frequently start out with a simple idea, and it just snowballs from there. Cheese stuffed jalapenos are wrapped with ranch chicken & bacon, then smoked!Īs I’ve mentioned before on my main blog - Celebration Generation - my husband and I tend to get very “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie” about things. Chicken Bacon Ranch Armadillo Eggs are a fun take on tradition.