Jalapeno Pita Bites
Created by Gerry on November 8, 2011
- Servings: 36
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 10m
- Recipe #2216
Ingredients
- 18 mini pita pockets (Cut in half)
- 1/4 cup butter (or margarine)
- 1/2 cup white onion, finely diced (sweet onion)
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 8 bacon slices (cooked cooled and crumbled)
- 1 small tomato, finely chopped
- 1/3 cup jalapeno peppers, finely chopped ( or a small 4 1/2 ounce jar of garlic and jalapeno puree)
How to Make
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Step 1: Cook bacon, cool and crumble
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Step 2: Cut mini pitas in half with scissors or sharp knife
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Step 3: In bowl microwave butter and onions until soft (about 2 minutes)
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Step 4: Add cream cheese and blend with mixer until creamy, fold in crumbled bacon, tomato and peppers, stuff into the halved mini pitas
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Step 5: I put them on a cookie sheet heating through in a 350 oven, makes for a marvellous hot appetiser. Also excellent at room temperature
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (71.2 g)
- Calories 260.6
- Total Fat - 13.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.9 g
- Cholesterol - 29.8 mg
- Sodium - 277.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 31 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 18.8 g
- Protein - 4.3 g
- Calcium - 34.7 mg
- Iron - 0.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg