This quick and simple recipe for armadillo eggs, a spicy Texas delicacy. Make sure you have a beverage nearby!
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 16 armadillo eggs |
Ingredients
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup bacon bits
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1 pound pork sausage
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1 (5.5 ounce) package seasoned coating mix
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cumin
- ⅛ teaspoon chili powder
- 16 fresh jalapeno peppers
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix cream cheese, bacon bits, chives, and hot sauce together in a bowl. Mix uncooked sausage and Cheddar together in another bowl. Mix seasoned coating mix, cumin, and chili powder together on a rimmed plate.
- Cut a slit lengthwise into each jalapeño pepper and remove the seeds. Stuff peppers with cream cheese mixture. Press sausage mixture around peppers, then roll in seasoning mixture to coat. Arrange on a baking sheet in a single layer.
- Bake in the preheated oven until sausage is browned, about 25 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 398 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g |
| Cholesterol | 81 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 14 g |
| Sodium | 1227 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 30 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Really good, spicy! They were very popular everyone liked them. I don’t eat carbs, so I left out the package seasoning coating mix.
These were good, one pound of sausage was only enough for me to cover about 8 jalapenos. Maybe the ones I got were bigger than normal. Otherwise, these have a great flavor and the filling is delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
My husband loved these! I used shredded bbq pork instead of sausage, and panko instead of bread crumbs… They turned out great.
These are super! The guys love them and I am required to bring them to the Super Bowl party to be admitted! However, not really easy to make, but worth the effort.
hey this is a great recipe you need to add hamburger meat to it helps make it easy to wrap the peppers and an egg will help keep it together
Way too much going on here. The filling is good but the sausage was difficult to mold around the peppers. I just didn’t like the combination.
This was delicious. The flavor was very nice. The only reason we gave it four stars is that it isn’t quite “quick and easy” to make. Also, we got 16 rather large jalepenos, and we ran out of cream cheese and sausage halfway. Again though, an excellent appetizer!
A huge hit!! They were fabulous. I didn’t add the bacon to the cream cheese filling because I thought it was a little much. Also I used a split of hot sausage and mild. Be sure stuff the peppers very well. The cream cheese filling is what helps cool the heat of the pepper. I had a few people bit off pieces without the filling, and they thought it to be too hot. Overall I will make again and again.
I owed my hubby since he had been especially helpful with a project so I painfully made these for him since he is a native Texan and absolutely loves hot and spicy. What a labor of love. The two previous reviews were both very good and helpful. This is a great recipe and he loved these. I never tried one so I can’t attest. Thanks !
To me, these are a pain in the butt to make! But my husband loves them so much that it’s worth it. My variations: I use hot sausage & I always need more than 1 lb. I have trouble getting the peppers covered completely. I use Pepper Jack cheese instead of plain cheddar. And I use Shake & Bake Hot & Spicy to roll them in. Some like it REAL HOT! Thank you for sharing the recipe!