Bacon Jalapeño Popper Dip – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

This bacon jalapeño popper dip is packed filled with creamy, tacky, bacon-jalapeño taste. It’s wonderful served with chips, bread or veggies!

My solely aim in life is to persuade you the way ridiculously scrumptious this dip is…and the way you might want to make it as quickly as doable. No have to have a vacation, celebration, or perhaps a actual motive. Simply make it!

Essential Substances for Bacon Jalapeño Popper Dip

For optimum creaminess, cheesiness, and taste on this unimaginable dip, let’s speak about just a few of the elements.

Creaminess: cream cheese, mayonnaise and bitter cream. These three parts make up the creamy base. For all of you mayo-haters on the market, you possibly can strive subbing in all bitter cream, however the baked dip may be barely grainy (mayo acts as a clean, creamy binding agent).

Cheesiness: Monterey Jack cheese + medium or sharp cheddar cheese. You realize what I’m about to say, however for the final word cheesiness, grate the cheese from a block as an alternative of utilizing pre-shredded cheese (which is commonly coated with a powdery substance to stop clumping, nevertheless it additionally prevents it from melting as nicely).

Taste: bacon, jalapeños, inexperienced chiles, and pantry-ready spices. Improve or lower any of these for roughly warmth and taste.

Crunchy Buttery Topping

To additional add to the deliciousness, the dip will get a lift from the fantastic buttery, crunchy, tacky topping.

• Panko bread crumbs
• Parmesan cheese (soapbox alert: freshly grated, if doable!)
• Melted butter

Bake till golden and bubbly. The dip is unquestionably greatest served heat.

Finest Pan Measurement for Baking

The baking dish known as for within the recipe is a deep 9.5-inch pie plate. Different baking dishes like a 9X9-inch spherical or sq. pan will work as nicely.

The secret is to make use of a dish that permits the dip to bake in a thick layer. Whether it is unfold too skinny, it may dry out and gained’t be as creamy and tacky. So select the suitable baking pan accordingly.

What to Serve With This Dip

This bacon jalapeño popper dip is so extremely tasty, it may be loved with quite a lot of completely different choices (additionally: don’t even strive it by the spoonful or all of the dipping choices may find yourself being fully ignored).

Baguette slices, tortilla or corn chips are just some tasty dippables that come to thoughts.

However I feel the place this dip actually shines is when contemporary veggies become involved. My favourite veggies to serve with this flavorful dip are:

• celery (in all probability my fave-fave)
• bell peppers
• cucumbers

Phrases are insufficient to really specific how good this dip is.

I really like jalapeño poppers (and can get them organized at nearly any restaurant if they’re on the menu), so throwing the identical elements right into a dip with a wholesome quantity of bacon, further cheese, and some different pleasant additions was certain to get my consideration.

I’m not the one one who loves it. My household goes completely bonkers over this bacon jalapeño dip.

Appears to be like like it’s the solely factor we’ll be serving at events for the remainder of endlessly. Oh wait, we don’t actually have events. 😉 Mid-week dinners, right here we come! I’ve a sense nobody will likely be mad about that.

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Bacon Jalapeño Popper Dip

Yield: 8 to 10 servings

Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 50 minutes minutes

Whole Time: 1 hour hr 15 minutes minutes

Dip:

• 12-ounce bundle bacon, chopped
• 16 ounces cream cheese, softened to room temperature
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• ½ cup bitter cream
• 3 to 4 medium jalapeños, finely chopped (see observe)
• 3 to 4 green onions, finely chopped (chives work well in place of green onions)
• 4-ounce can green chiles, mild, medium or hot
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• ½ teaspoon sweet or smoked paprika
• 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded medium or sharp cheddar cheese
• 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese

Topping:

• ¾ cup panko bread crumbs
• ½ cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• Additional chopped green onions or chives, for serving

For Serving:

• Tortilla or corn chips
• Baguette slices
• Fresh veggies like celery, bell peppers, cucumbers

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• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a deep dish pie plate with cooking spray and set aside (see note).

• Cook the bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon to paper towel lined plate to drain. If desired, chop or crumble bacon into smaller pieces. Measure out about 1/4 cup bacon and set aside to be used for topping.

• In a large bowl, mix the cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, jalapeños, green onions or chives, green chiles, garlic powder, onion powder and paprika together until well-combined and creamy.

• Add the shredded cheeses and bacon (except for the reserved bacon) and mix until evenly combined.

• Spread the dip evenly in the prepared pan.

• In a small bowl, toss the panko and Parmesan cheese together. Add the melted butter and mix until evenly combined.

• Spread the topping evenly over the dip. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until the dip is bubbly and topping is golden (tent the top with foil if the topping is browning too quickly).

• Sprinkle the reserved bacon and green onions over the top. Serve the dip warm with chips, bread, or fresh veggies (my fave!).

Jalapeños: this dip has a very mild spice level if the seeds are removed from the jalapeños. For more heat, add additional jalapeños or keep some/all of the seeds. 
Cheese: the dip will be cheesier and creamier if using freshly grated cheese (vs pre-shredded cheese that is coated with a powdery substance to keep it from clumping but also prevents it from melting as creamy). 

Author: Mel

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Method: Bake

Serving: 1 serving, Calories: 400kcal, Carbohydrates: 16g, Protein: 13g, Fat: 31g, Saturated Fat: 15g, Cholesterol: 75mg, Sodium: 991mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 6g