Sour Cream Jalapeno Chicken
by petermarcus | November 4, 2008 | In Photography, Recipes, chicken, dinners, food, poultry, sauces, sour cream jalepeno | 9 Comments
I like to keep my jalapenos on the bush until they turn red. There’s much more of a complex flavor, sweet, rich, earthy, compared to the more bitter and grassy green peppers. It’s similar to red and green bell peppers, as is the cost of the final product — the red peppers take longer to ripen, and perish more quickly, so if they’re offered in the store at all, they’re three times the price. Which doesn’t factor into things when I’m growing them in my own yard.
That said, I have to come up with recipes to use red jalapenos, or fry up a bunch as poppers.
When I was a teenager in metro Washington DC, the Washington Post had a cooking section in the weekend paper. I had some disastrous results from the more adventurous recipes (I made a stuffed squid dish, when I had no concept about seafood freshness, nor temperature control, and I’m sure that house still has a residual odor). However, one of the recipes was a chicken breast, oven baked, with a sour cream topping mixed with diced jalapenos. That one turned out pretty tasty, but I haven’t actually made it since then…and that was maybe 25 years ago.
Still, with a couple red jalapenos sitting on my counter, the sour cream and jalapeno chicken recipe from my teenage years jumped into my mind, and I tried to recreate it — from memory and a little more culinary experience.
