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Smoked Armadillo Eggs

Jalapeños stuffed, wrapped in bacon, and smoked low and slow before a quick sear to crisp the bacon.

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🥚 Makes about 10 🔥 Smoker 🥓 Appetizer ⏱️ 10 min prep · 2 hr cook
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Bacon-wrapped smoked armadillo eggs on a plate, one cut open showing the cream cheese and jalapeño

Instructions

  1. Stuff the peppers

    Halve and seed the jalapeños, then fill each with cream cheese and a piece of beer brat sausage.

  2. Wrap in bacon

    Wrap each stuffed pepper in 1 to 1½ slices of bacon, depending on how big the jalapeño is. Season with your rub of choice.

  3. Smoke low and slow

    Smoke at 250°F for about 1.5–2 hours.

  4. Crisp and sauce

    Raise the grill heat to crisp up the bacon, coat with BBQ sauce, and serve.

Nutrition (per egg, makes 10)

Calories~510
Total fat~40g
Saturated fat~15.5g
Cholesterol~105mg
Sodium~1375mg
Total carbs~8g
Total sugar~6g
Protein~24g

Calculated from the ingredient list, not lab-tested — treat as a ballpark. Only the ~1 package of cream cheese actually used is counted, not the second unused package. Bacon and the two packages of beer brats (10 links total, one per egg) are the main drivers of the fat, cholesterol, and sodium here.

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