Texas Lizard Eggs Recipes

EASY ARMADILLO EGGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a bowl, mix the cream cheese, bacon bits, chives, and hot sauce. In a separate bowl, mix the uncooked sausage and Cheddar cheese. On a flat surface, mix the seasoned coating mix, cumin, and chili powder.
• Cut a slit lengthwise into each jalapeno pepper, and remove the seeds. Stuff the peppers with the cream cheese mixture. Press the sausage mixture around the stuffed jalapenos, and roll in the seasoned coating mix to coat.
• Arrange the coated jalapenos on a baking sheet in a single layer. Bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, until the sausage is evenly brown.

TEXAS ARMADILLO EGGS

Steps:

• Cut off stems of jalapenos; using a knife and scooping action, remove all seeds and ridges. Rinse well; be sure you have all the seeds out!
• Combine sausage, egg, and bread crumbs in a bowl.
• Fill jalapenos with cream cheese, using a spoon or cake decorator with large tip.
• Make small patties with the sausage mix; wrap one around each jalapeno, sealing it with your fingers.
• Place on cookie sheet; bake in over at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes. Let cool, cut in half across the middle. Makes 40 Jalapeno eggs.
• Serve with or without a salsa dip.

TEXAS WOODPECKER EGGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Lightly spray a large baking pan with cooking spray.
• Mix together the sausage (raw) and grated pepper Jack cheese.
• Add biscuit mix in, 1/2 cup at a time, until all is thoroughly mixed.
• This will make a very stiff dough, and should now be kneaded for about 3 minutes.
• Pinch off pieces of the dough, almost the size of the eggs, and flatten out the piece into a "pancake", about 1/4 inch thick.
• Place one boiled, peeled egg in the center of each "pancake" and roll the dough around each egg to cover it all the way around evenly.
• Seal any edges together with your fingers.
• Continue this until all of the eggs are covered in the dough.
• Place the box of Shake' N Bake into a large shallow dish.
• Crack the 3 additional raw eggs into a bowl; season with a pinch of salt and black pepper and beat.
• Roll each egg in the Shake' N Bake, then in the egg wash, and back again through the Shake 'N Bake.
• Lay each egg on the prepared baking sheet as it is done.
• Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes.
• The "Woodpecker Eggs" will seem soft to the touch when they first come out of the oven, but as they cool, they will "crust" nicely.

TEXAS LIZARD EGGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Split the jalapenos end to end, making little "canoes" of them.
• Clean out the centers, removing all the seeds and veins.
• Fill each half level with cream cheese.
• With the sausage, take a "meatball" sized portion, flatten it in your hand, making a rectangle out of it.
• Take the filled jalapeno half and wrap it completely with the sausage.
• Wash hands thoroughly to remove pepper "stuff".
• Place on a broiler pan or cooling rack suspended over a baking pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until evenly browned.
• Let "eggs" cool a bit and enjoy!