Bacon Wrapped Poblano
Fire roasted poblano stuffed with creamy Oaxaca cheese and crumbled sausage, wrapped in smokey bacon and served on a plate of corn crema
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
Total Time30 minutes mins
Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: bacon wrapped peppers, pasilla pepper, stuffed pepper, stuffed poblano
Servings: 5
Poblano Peppers
- 5 poblano peppers (pasilla peppers)
- 1 lb hot ground sausage
- 10 oz Oaxaca cheese, grated (found in Mexican section of dairy)
- 5 slices bacon
Corn Crema
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup yellow onion, diced
- 2 cup corn, frozen
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp cilantro, chopped
- 1 tsp lime juice, fresh
- 1/2 tsp sugar
Bacon Wrapped Poblano
Heat oven on broil
Place poblano peppers on sheet pan and broil on each side until blackened
Remove from oven and quickly place in a bowl with lid. Leave here for about 5 minutes to allow the skin to steam off. After 5 minutes, remove and place on cutting board.
Carefully, using the back side of your knife, scrape off the blackened skin. Make a small slip in one side of the pepper and remove seeds.
In a medium pan over medium heat, cook sausage untl browned and crumbled.
Place bacon slices between two thick paper towels and microwave for two minutes, cooking partially. Set aside.
Stuff peppers with 1/5 of cheese and 1/5 of cooked sausage.
Wrap a piece of par cooked bacon around each pepper and secure with a toothpick.
Place on a sheet pan and bake for about 10 minutes while you make the corn crema.
Corn Crema
Heat oil in a medium pan over medium heat. Saute onion until softened about 2 minutes. Add corn and cook another two minutes. Add chicken broth, cream, cilantro, lime and sugar. Remove from heat.
Blend mixture using an immersion blender or pour into a standard blender and blend until creamed.