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Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Chicken is the perfect easy weeknight meal! This cheesy sheet pan chicken is so flavorful from the jalapeño popper flavors inside.
What is Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Chicken?
Jalapeno Popper Sheet Pan Chicken is an easy weeknight meal full of the flavors everyone loves: cream cheese, jalapeños, and cheese! It’s chicken stuffed with cheese and jalapeños and cooked on a sheet pan – it’s a 30 minute meal that’s perfect for a weeknight.
Why you’ll love this recipe
- I’d never made a sheet pan meal before this recipe and I’m kicking myself because they’re SO EASY.
- Chicken can be so boring! We eat it all the time and it gets hard to find new ways to make it. Stuffed chicken breasts with a spicy cheesy mixture is just the thing you need to kick your old chicken recipe up a notch.
- Throw all your ingredients onto a sheet pan and bake until done. It’s the easiest meal, perfect for busy weeknights. Easy clean-up too!
Jalapeño Popper Chicken Ingredients
- Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts – make sure they’re thawed
- Cream Cheese – you need 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- Pickled jalapeños – my favorite thing ever!
- Cheddar cheese – a classic popper ingredient!
- Bell Peppers – use your favorite colors
- Onion – slice it thin
- Green beans – for the vegetable portion of our sheet pan meal
- Olive oil – to coat all the vegetables.
How to make Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Chicken
- Just mix up your stuffing ingredients: cream cheese, cheese, and pickled jalapeños.
- Slice the chicken open to create a pocket, and stuff the filling in. Salt and pepper the chicken breasts.
- Toss the vegetables with oil, salt and pepper.
- Preheat oven to 425° and place everything on a sheet pan. Bake until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are roasted.
Sheet pan chicken really is the perfect meal – the entire meal all in one pan!
Expert Tips
- Make sure your chicken breasts are uniform sized for even cooking.
- Choose your favorite vegetables, but ones that stand up to the high heat of the oven work best (peppers, onion, green beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, etc)
- If you like your veggies less done, start the chicken for about 10 minutes then add the vegetables later.
- This recipe is low carb and gluten free, making it the perfect healthy chicken dinner.
FAQs
Stuffing chicken breasts can take up to 40 minutes, depending on thickness and size.
Cook the chicken until it reaches 165° internal temperature to make sure it’s done. Measure the temperature with an instant read thermometer in the thickest part of the breast.
I don’t recommend making this stuffed chicken recipe in an air fryer – the cream cheese might leak out and make a mess.
Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. I don’t recommend freezing this recipe.
Jalapeño Popper Sheet Pan Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts (2-4 breasts, depending on size)
- 4 ounces Challenge cream cheese softened
- 2 tablespoons pickled jalapeños diced
- ¼ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 3 peppers red, yellow, green, or a combination, seeded and sliced
- 1 medium onion sliced
- 12-16 ounces green beans washed and trimmed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray an 18×25” rimmed baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
- Stir together cream cheese, jalapenos, and cheddar cheese.
- Slice each chicken breast open slightly and stuff 1/4 of the cheese mixture into the center of each breast. Season breasts with salt and pepper.
- Toss peppers, onions, and green beans with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
- Place the chicken in the center of the prepared baking sheet and the vegetables around the outside. Bake until the thickest part of the chicken is no longer pink and the vegetables are cooked, stirring the vegetables halfway through baking. This will take 25-35 minutes, depending on the thickness of your chicken.
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Recipe Notes
- Make sure your chicken breasts are uniform sized for even cooking.
- Choose your favorite vegetables, but ones that stand up to the high heat of the oven work best (peppers, onion, green beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, etc)
- If you like your veggies less done, start the chicken for about 10 minutes then add the vegetables later.
- This recipe is low carb and gluten free, making it the perfect healthy chicken dinner.
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This post has been sponsored by Challenge Dairy. All opinions are 100% my own.
Fabulous! This is so good! LOve your recipes.
hey girl- this looks so yummy!
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