Recipe: Seafood Poppers (baked jalapeno peppers stuffed with shrimp and cheese)

SEAFOOD POPPERS

24 large fresh jalapeno peppers
extra virgin olive oil
1/2 pound Monterey Jack cheese cut into small 'stuffable' chunks
24 medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
Old Bay Seafood Seasoning
freshly ground black pepper
rock salt

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

Hollow out peppers (be sure to get all the veins and seeds out). Coat peppers inside and out with olive oil.

Season shrimp with Old Bay Seafood Seasoning and fresh ground pepper, if desired.

Stuff a small piece of the cheese in the bottom of the pepper, followed by a seasoned shrimp, followed by a larger piece of cheese.

Stand peppers up in a baking dish filled with rock salt (this keeps the melting cheese in the pepper). Drizzle a little olive oil on the tops of the stuffed peppers.

Bake in a slow oven for about 30 minutes.

Makes 8 servings
Source: Epicurious
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