Chicken Bombs

Chicken tenders are topped with spicy cream cheese and wrapped in bacon in these quick and easy chicken bombs that jazz up a buffet line.

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 35 mins
• Total Time: 60 mins
• Calories: 247 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 8 slices bacon
• 1 jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
• 8 toothpicks
• 8 chicken tenders
• 6 tablespoons pepper jelly
• 0.25 cup finely chopped green onion, or to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Set a wire rack on top of a baking sheet.

Step 2

Mix cream cheese, green onion, jalapeno pepper, salt, and pepper together in a bowl.

Step 3

Pound chicken tenders into a rectangular shape with the flat side of a meat tenderizer. Place 3 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture in the middle of each tender; fold into a pouch.

Step 4

Wrap a slice of bacon around each pouch and secure with a toothpick. Top with some pepper jelly. Arrange on the wire rack.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until bacon is crisp and chicken juices run clear, about 35 minutes.