Chicken Bombs recipe

All Recipes Meat and Poultry Recipes Chicken Baked and Roasted

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
¼ cup finely chopped green onion, or to taste
1 jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
salt and ground black pepper to taste
8 chicken tenders
8 slices bacon
8 toothpicks
6 tablespoons pepper jelly

Nutrition Info

246.7 calories
carbohydrate: 11 g
cholesterol: 72.1 mg
fat: 14.9 g
fiber: 0.1 g
protein: 17 g
saturatedFat: 7.8 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 348.3 mg
sugar: 6.9 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Set a wire rack on top of a baking sheet.

  2. Mix cream cheese, green onion, jalapeno pepper, salt, and pepper together in a bowl.

  3. Pound chicken tenders into a rectangular shape with the flat side of a meat tenderizer. Place 3 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture in the middle of each tender, fold into a pouch.

  4. Wrap a slice of bacon around each pouch and secure with a toothpick. Top with some pepper jelly. Arrange on the wire rack.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until bacon is crisp and chicken juices run clear, about 35 minutes.

Recipe Yield

8 servings

Recipe Note

This is a great recipe to have with friends and family, or for a buffet line. I love to invite a few friends over and serve this with a few other appetizers. A friend brought me a version of this recipe and through a little tweaking we were able to come up with this great dish.

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