Guacamole Bacon Stuffed Pepper Poppers
Late nights in college were often capped off with a trip to Sonic Drive-In. I craved Cheddar Poppers–jalapeños stuffed with cheese and deep fried. If you’ve ever tried to make pepper poppers at home, you know that a jalapeño is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to bite into…a mild, tame pepper or a flaming, taste bud murderer. So I’ve done away with the guessing and switched out the jalapeño for a small baby pepper. I’ve seen them at almost every grocery store I’ve walked into, and they’re usually found in little cute plastic bags, hanging around the other peppers.
Ingredients
- 1 lb sweet baby peppers
- 2 ripe Haas avocados
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1/2 handful cilantro, chopped
- 1 t chili garlic or hot sauce
- salt, to taste
- 8 oz bacon, chopped & crisped up
Method
Preheat your oven to 350°F.
Prepare the peppers by cutting off the stems, then cut the peppers in half, lengthwise. Pull out the white membrane and seeds. Place the peppers on a baking sheet and bake until tender, about 10 minutes. Alternatively, you could leave the peppers raw.
Meanwhile, assemble the guacamole by mashing together (with a fork) the avocados, lime juice, cilantro, hot sauce and a good pinch of salt.
Use a small spoon to fill the peppers with guacamole. Top with bacon crumbles.
Oooh, these look fantastic. Might need to make these for my cookout next weekend!!
Oh, I am all over these tonight! I happen to have all the ingredients sitting in my fridge. Thanks!
These look like a great snack! Mmm, bacon
Holy guacamole! The ingredients are on my shopping list! Avacado and bacon – a match made in heaven
Loving this idea! Just fyi – if you want to cool down a jalapeno because you are right, it can be a crap shoot. Boil them in water for 5 min before you stuff them and then bake them – mild well mannered jalapeno’s from now on. I’m going to try this with the peppers because I like the idea of the sweetness from the pepper with the creamy guac and salty bacon. Hells Yeah!
These look fantastic! I love Sonic Poppers but they don’t like me….Lol!!
Loved these!!! We got some large banana peppers from our farm share and followed the recipe -except that I baked our peppers at 400 for an extra 10-15 to numb some of the bite. YUM, YUM, YUM
This was soooooo yummy!
Are you freakin’ kidding me, Megan?! I’m speechless….and to add, I’ve converted another friend over to your Paleo Pad Thai and in her words, called them, “dinner party worthy”. How’s that for a compliment?!
awwww. that’s so awesome. thanks so much liz!
Holy YUM!!! I am certainly making these soon
Megan, I just noticed the ALL NATURAL, no dogma added burst on the site! I absolutely love it. You guys are so clever! You know I appreciate stuff like that.
Holy Goddess these sound amazing!!! Great recipe for a party, thank you.
I’m certainly going to be trying this either tonight or tomorrow evening. However, I can also see this working with (and if I do eat beef now) grass fed beef cut into a thin strip overlaying the guacamole..droooooool…. Anyways, glad that I found your blog.
Used yellow and purple bell pepper, still delicious!
I put these (peppers raw) in my kids lunch at least once a week. Cooking them and topping with bacon sounds like the perfect way to dress them up for dinner!
This is very creative. It’s fun and tastes really good. You don’t need to be a cook to make these. Such an easy recipe to follow.