28 Jalapeño Recipes That'll Spice Up Your Cooking Routine

We love them in fruity lemonades and margaritas, for poppers or picked straight from our jalapeño plant and diced up for salsas; jalapeños are the little peppers with big flavor that we find ourselves coming back to time and time again. They heat up our summertime dinners just as easily as they kick up warming comfort foods during the cooler months. There are many techniques for getting maximum flavor out of your peppers, from pickling, frying and roasting to more unique approaches like blitzing with an avocado until creamy or (believe it or not) stuffing them into your pizza dough. Sign us up as interested. But what do you do if you’re worried about the heat level? Don’t give up on jalapeños; you can still cook with them. The trick is to simply cut them and remove the seeds and white membrane prior to using, since that’s where most of the heat comes from. Ready to get cooking? We’ve got lots of recipes you’ll enjoy but it’s hard to beat this simple, no-cook slaw, tossed in lime juice, olive oil and salt. Not only is it delicious — it’s so easy you’ll soon be making it by heart!

You don’t need to wait all day for beer bread to rise to its spicy, cheesy fluffed-up glory — just give it an hour and change. In other words, you can bake off a loaf in the morning and expect to tear off a big palmful (or three) for brunch.

Ice-cold lemonade gets a boost of personality with jalapeño-stuffed ice cubes. Yep, you read that correctly. A little bit of heat is just what this refreshing drink needs!

Kind of like a hot pile of potato fries only, instead of creamy and mellow, jammy and biting. There’s also no need for ketchup here; roasted garlic ranch is the perfect accompaniment.