How To Cook Jalapeños

Updated on June 27th, 2022

Jalapeños can be a spicy, delicious treat, and it adds a spicy flavor to your recipes. Cooking jalapeños boosts potassium and vitamin C, and for a few calories and a few amounts of fat, it also enhances and deepens their flavor. Jalapeños can be cooked in a lot of ways. However, the most popular ways for cooking jalapeños are grilled, roasted, or deep-fried peppers.

The naturally smoky flavor of jalapeños is brought out by roasting, easy to make. Another popular method is grilling jalapeños, but one of the most popular ways of cooking jalapeños is to deep fry them, which is mostly filled with different tasty stuffing.

Jalapeños Nutrition Facts

Tools needed to make jalapeños 

1. Baking sheet
2. Tongs
3. Olive oil
4. Cutting board
5. Nonstick cooking spray 
6. Outdoor grill or stove
7. Sharp knife
8. Basting brush

Tips for cooking jalapeños 

1. Firstly, to keep your jalapeños from moving around on the grill whenever you flip them, cut the length of your jalapeños in half when grilling them.
2. For the skin of your jalapeños to be loosened so it will be easier to remove, prepare a sealable neat plastic bag and place the cooked jalapeños peppers into it for about 5 to 10 minutes.

How To Cook Jalapeños

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• Author: Bobby

Ingredients

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• 10 LG jalapeños
• Cooking spray
• Cutting board
• A sharp kitchen knife
• Tongs
• Aluminum foil (optional)
• Paper towels
• Shallow bowl or plate
• Mixing bowl

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Instructions

Now we shall get into three methods of cooking jalapeños

Method 1: Roasting Jalapeños 

Jalapeños can be roasted in an Oven through the following steps:

1. Firstly, before you begin, make sure you wear disposable gloves. Then preheat your broiler. Slice the jalapeños in half horizontally, and make sure you slice off the stems from the jalapeños.
2. Make sure you scrape and remove the seeds inside the jalapeños, but you can leave the seeds in there if you want a spicy dish.
3. Take a little baking sheet with foil and take the seeded or scraped jalapeños and place the opened side to face down, while the skin side will face up, and then place them onto the baking sheet.
4. Put the baking sheet in the oven, and make sure that it is 3-4 inches from the preheated broiler. Allow the peppers to roast for about 3-4 minutes until the skin becomes blistered and is charred. There should be just a few areas of the pepper looking green; the rest of the skin should be mostly black. Carefully monitor the peppers, and to ensure that the peppers don’t dry out and become too difficult to peel, don’t let them roast for too long.
5. The next step is to steam the peppers after roasting them for 15 minutes to make them easier to peel, which will soften the skin.
6. Remove the burnt skin from the peppers after steaming. Make sure your gloves remain on even after roasting. If you have sensitive skin, the capsaicin can still burn you.
7. After steaming and peeling, let them rest a bit, and then you can now serve them or eat them with another dish.

Method 2: Grilling Jalapeños

Jalapeños can be grilled through the following steps:

1. Prepare an outdoor grill and preheat it to high.
2. Use cooking oil to brush the grates.
3. Place the whole jalapeños on your grill and to prevent your peppers from burning, make sure you use tongs.
4. Close the grill lid and cook the jalapeños for about 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Turn the sides of the jalapeños peppers and let them cook for 2 to 3 more minutes.
6. For the last time, turn the jalapeños and let them cook for an extra 2 to 3 minutes.
7. After grilling the jalapeños, remove them from the grill and let them cool down slightly before you serve them.

Notes

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Method 3: Deep Frying Jalapeños

Deep frying jalapeños requires some extra ingredients such as:

• l Flour
• l Breadcrumbs
• l Cooking oil
• l Spices 
• l Salt
• l Eggs
• l Stuffing mixture (optional)
• l Deep fryer or large pot

Jalapeños can be deep-fried through the following steps:

STEP 1: Put your cooking oil inside your deep fryer and heat your oil to 365 °F (185 °C). You can use any cooking oil to deep fry jalapeños. Heat cooking oil to 365 °F (180 °C) degrees in a deep fryer or large pot.

STEP 2: In a bowl, mix eggs, flour, salt, garlic powder, and red chili powder.

STEP 3: Make your breading and batter. Mix your flour, milk, and one egg in a bowl to make your batter. Put breadcrumbs and salt and thoroughly mix them in a separate plate or shallow bowl to make your breading.

STEP 4: You can also add other spices, such as paprika, chili powder, or garlic, to your batter if you want. This will be added to the dry mixture on the plate. You can also choose to add a liquid ingredient such as lime juice or beer, which will be added to the raw egg mixture in the bowl.

STEP 5: The next step is to dip the sliced jalapeños in the batter and then put the battered jalapeños inside the deep fryer. Leave the pepper to fry for about 2 to 4 minutes. To avoid getting burned, use a long tong or a frying basket to remove the peppers carefully from the fryer.

STEP 6: The jalapeños float to the surface of oil when they are fully cooked. When the pepper is done, the outside coating of the jalapeños should be crispy and golden brown.

STEP 7: Take the fried jalapeños out of the oil and let them cool off. Put the peppers with paper towels on a plate, and this will soak up excess oil.

 

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Cooking Time For Jalapeños 

Cooking jalapeños is very easy. The various timing guidelines to follow for cooking with the different methods can be seen below: