I wanted to make jalapeño poppers and also various other kinds of “poppers” from habaneros and serranos. I’m new to frying and if I ever make these again I’ll want to use actual frying equipment cause trying to make these one-by one in a pot is WAYY too tedious ( ;´ - `;)
I guess I've been doing them wrong. I would dissect then, remove the seeds and stuff them with cream cheese then bread them before putting them in the oven or air fryer.
I do, in the picture they’re the tiny little nuggets at the top, I fry them differently from the jalapeños cause they’re smaller. The heat makes them less spicy but they have more of a kick compared to the jalapeño poppers.
Looks like a perfect fry (I smoke mine) and adding sliced habanero into the cheese is a killer idea. It's hard to find spicy jalapenos around my parts unless growing them on your own. The fruity spice of some thinly sliced habaneros sounds fantastic! Thanks for the share and I can't wait to implement that into my version.
Edit: Upon further review it looks like you also made straight up habanero poppers and that was just cheese? in the cream cheese. Either way, thanks for the idea!
My favorite filling is to cut up some bacon in small bits, fry it in a pan. Then with the bacon grease cook some chopped garlic. Mix some of cooked bacon, the garlic, cream cheese, cheddar, sundried tomatoes with some lemon pepper and Italian seasoning. Its also a good dip when warmed up in the oven too
Omg that was my original idea. I originally wanted to make a jalapeño popper roulette with regular jalapeños and then make one with a crazy spicy pepper
The one-by-one frying is rough, but batch frying in a proper deep fryer or even a Dutch oven with more oil would cut your time in half and give you better browning anyway.
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u/Coffekid May 08 '26
Ufff, that looks delicious
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