Recipe: Jalapeno Popper Chicken

So last week, instead of doing a Walmart run with all three kiddos, I used their app for Grocery Pickup. If you haven't used it yet, it's great and I highly recommend it, especially if running in Walmart with your children is one of the more unpleasant ways you can imagine using your time. For me, I dislike the sacrifice of being able to choose all my own produce and meat (is that just me? I like to have control of the exact produce that comes home with me. Maybe I'm a control freak?) Anyway, for the most part though, they always give me great stuff. Last week, though, I brought more jalapenos than I could reasonably use in a batch of jalapeno poppers, and it left me with a couple leftover peppers. I have been trying to look for ways to "spice up" chicken breasts lately, no pun intended, because they're just so dang boring by themselves, so I came up with the idea to make this jalapeno popper chicken using the leftover peppers I had.

If you've ever made my Jalapeno Popper recipe, this is super simple. The ingredients are essentially the same as the poppers, plus chicken breast!

Ingredients:

- 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed

- 8 oz block of cream cheese, softened

- 1/2 cup shredded cheese (I used Mexican style cheese)

- 2 jalapeno poppers, deseeded (if you like more "heat," you can leave in the seeds)

- 5-6 pieces of cooked bacon

- salt & pepper

- 1 tbs garlic powder

In a bowl, combine your cheeses and garlic powder.

Chop up your jalapenos and throw them in the mix as well.

Place your chicken in a casserole dish and spread this mixture on top.

Mmm. It's not pretty, but yum.

Chop up some bacon and throw that on there. The more, the merrier.

And that's it! Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.

So easy and delicious! As I was eating this, it occurred to me that this would also be really delicious with thinner cuts of chicken.

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