Recipe - Crabmeat Stuffed Jalapenos (Texas Popcorn)

1 pound Flaked crabmeat
1 cn (1 pound, 11 ounces)
Jalapeno peppers
2 tablespoon Each, finely chopped green
pepper, onions, and dill
pickle
One fourth cup Cracker meal
1 Beaten egg
One fourth teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Black pepper
1/8 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
1 Clove minced garlic
One fourth cup Milk

BREADING MIXTURE
2 cup Cracker meal
1 cup Mils
2 Eggs
One fourth teaspoon Each salt and pepper

Here's a recipe by Annette Reddell Hegen from a recipe card produced by the
Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

Cut peppers in half lengthwise. Discard pulp and seeds and rinse carefully.
In a large mixing bowl, combine remaining ingredients, except breading
mixture. Stuff pepper halves with crab mixture and press stuffing around
pepper. Set peppers aside.

To prepare breading mixture: Place 2 cups cracker meal in a flat pan. In a
separate pan, mix 1 cup mils, 2 eggs and One fourth teaspoon each salt and pepper.
Dip peppers in egg mixture, then in cracker meal. Repeat procedure.

Deep fry at 365 degrees (F) until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
Makes 30 hors d'oeuvre.
Posted to CHILEHEADS DIGEST V3 #133

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:34:23 0500

From: Mike Stallcup Michael.Stallcup@msfc.nasa.gov