Oh my gosh this is one of those I can't stop eating and not going to share winner dinners. Crispy Southern fried chicken stuffed with fresh jalapeños, hot cream cheese, gooey mozzarella and warm fresh burst of home grown cherry tomatoes, my family wolfed these down and the few extra I had planed for fridge raiding!
Prep time 15 minutes / Cooking time 10 minutes
Ingredients
(makes 4)
4 large chicken breasts
8 fresh jalapeños
1 lrg tub soft cream cheese
2 balls mozzarella
12 cherry tomatoes
1 cup AP flour
1 tbsp Himalayan sea salt
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs beaten
1 ltr frying oil
8 cocktail sticks
Fill your skillet two inches deep with oil and slowly bring up to 170 C / 338 F temperature.
Take the thick end of the chicken breast and on the side push a sharp knife in three quarters of the way in and then work the blade down the inside centre of the breast not piercing through the chicken, you a creating a pocket inside the chicken breast.
Deseed the jalapeños and slice them, depending on how hot you like your poppers mix the seeds and sliced jalapeño in to the cream cheese, divide by four and stuff in to each breast, push in three cherry tomatoes and then half a mozzarella ball. Use two cocktail sticks to pin the pocket hole closed.
To coat the chicken take two bowls, in one mix the all purpose flour, salt, pepper and baking powder, in the second bowl add the beaten eggs and season with salt and pepper. First toss the breasts in the flour, then the egg and then back in to the seasoned flour coating throughly.
Place the breast in the oil and leave for two minutes, turn and leave for a further two minutes repeat again cooking in total for approx 8 minutes. To check if the chicken is cooked all the way through take a metal skewer and instert in the thickest part of the chicken, leave in for a few seconds, remove and touch the skewer to the tip of your nose or upper lip if its warm/hot your chicken is cooked.
Remove from the oil, place on paper roll and rest for a minute, serve with comforting buttery mashed potatoes.
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