Jalapeno Popper Hasselback Chicken Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 4 Chicken Breasts

  skinless
• 1-2 Jalapenos

  sliced thin in rounds
• 6 slices Cooked bacon
• 3 tbsp. Olive Oil
• 2 tbsp Tajin Spice Rub

  sub with a BBQ dry rub
• 3 oz. Cream Cheese

  softened
• 4 oz. Shredded Cheese
• 2 Green Onions

  diced small
• 1 tsp Tajin Spice Rub
• 3 cloves Fresh Garlic

  minced

Instructions

• 1 Preheat your oven to 375 F. and grease a baking sheet or casserole dish.
• 2 Start by combining all the cream cheese mixture ingredients together in a bowl
  (cream cheese, shredded cheese, green onion, Tajin, and fresh garlic). Stir
  until fully combined.
• 3 Prep and cook your bacon and slice your jalapenos into thin rounds. Remove the
  seeds if you want them to be less spicy. Set it aside.
• 4 Pat your chicken dry with a paper towel. Cut parallel slices crosswise into your
  chicken breast with a sharp knife without fully cutting through the chicken. Do
  this every 1-1.5 inches or so. This works best with a thicker chicken breast and
  you should get about 5-6 slices into each piece.
• 5 Coat al your chicken breast pieces with olive oil and then in the Tajin spice
  rub (or use a smoky BBQ rub). Be sure to season between the cuts as well.
• 6 Take a dollop of the cream cheese mixture and spread it in between each slice
  (about 1-2 tsp.). Then add in a slice of cooked bacon the same width as the
  chicken and a few slices of jalapeno. Repeat this into each slice on every
  chicken breast.
• 7 Place the hasselback chicken breats into a baking dish and bake until the
  internal temperature of each piece is 165 F. This can take between 35-40 min or
  so depending on how thick each one is. Place foil over the top if you feel like
  it is browning too much before it's fully cooked.
• 8 Remove from the oven and let the chicken rest 5-10 minutes before serving. Serve
  with your favorie sides and enjoy!

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