Smoked Meatloaf Stuffed with Jalapeño
Mini meatloaf, stuffed with a “cream cheese stuffed jalapeño”, topped with my very own barbecue sauce and bacon crumbles served with hefty portions of colorful peppers and onions cooked on the grill. That's a very tasty mouthful!
Ingredients
- A muffin pan square cutouts instead of round work best
- 8 or more jalapeños cleaned and seeded
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese
- 2 lbs 80/20 ground beef
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup Jeff's Barbecue Sauce purchase recipes here
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- 2 Tablespoons of Jeff's Rub purchase recipes here
Instructions
- Clean and deseed jalapeños
- Blanch jalapeños
- Make cream cheese filling
- Fill jalapeños with cream cheese filling
- Make meatloaf mixture and stuff into muffin sections on top of jalapeños
- Place pan of meat loafs into fridge to firm up for about 30 minutes
- Drop meat loafs onto cookie sheet or Bradley rack
- Place into smoker
- Fry or Bake bacon for making "crumbles"
- Top meat loafs with Jeff's barbecue sauce and bacon crumbles about 30 minutes before done
- Smoke for 3 hours or until they reach 160 degrees internal temperature
- Serve with side of grilled peppers and onions
- Enjoy!