Jalapeno Popper Dip Recipe
This Jalapeno Popper Dip Recipe is perfect for entertaining or when you just want finger food for dinner. It is creamy, cheesy, loaded with bacon, and has as much of a kick as you want. You’ll love the flavor of the fresh jalapenos!
When his team is playing, my husband loves to set everything else aside and focus on the game. When those games fall over dinner, we find it fun to just eat appetizers and lounge in front of the tv. It’s fun for the kids and changes it up since we sit in the dining room as a family for dinner almost every night.
This delicious dip is a great addition to game night or an easy appetizer that pairs with any raw veggies. It is also low carb and gluten-free.
Be sure to also check out my Keto Spinach Dip Recipe and this Keto Buffalo Chicken Dip!
Ingredients
- Cream cheese – Make sure that it’s softened so that it mixes easier.
- Mayonnaise – Helps with the texture.
- Sour cream – You could also use Greek yogurt.
- Jalapeno, seeded – Removing the seeds helps with the spiciness!
- Bacon – Crunchy crumbled bacon is perfect.
- Cheddar cheese – Shredded cheese works best.
- Salt – For flavor.
- Cooked chicken or steamed cauliflower – These are both optional, but are great for texture and flavor.
See recipe card for quantities.
How to Make Jalapeno Popper Dip
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Step One: Mix all the ingredients.
Step Two: Spread into a pie plate or casserole dish. Top with the topping ingredients.
Step Three: Put in the oven to bake for 30-40 minutes or until the dip is golden brown, bubbling, and hot.
Step Four: Serve with your favorite dippers!
Top Tip💡
It is much easier to mix if your cream cheese if room temperature or warm. I microwave my cream cheese for 30 seconds before adding it.
Variations
- Cheese – If you don’t want to use cheddar cheese, vary it up! You can use Pepper jack cheese, Monterey jack cheese, Sharp cheddar cheese, or any other cheese that you want.
- Pork rinds – For some crunch while low carb, adding crushed pork rinds is a great idea.
- Panko breadcrumbs or Ritz crackers – If you aren’t low carb, adding this texture to the top of the dip adds a nice crunchy topping. If you don’t want to add panko bread crumbs, crushed-up crackers can be a fun topping, too.
- Green chilies – Add some extra spice to pair with the jalapeno peppers!
- Seasonings – You can add garlic powder, onion powder, parmesan cheese, or cayenne pepper for a spicy flavor.
See these Keto Jalapeno Poppers for another spicy good recipe!
Equipment
To make this delicious appetizer, you’ll want to have a large bowl and a pie plate. That’s it!
Storage
The great thing about making this easy jalapeno popper dip is that you can store the leftover dip for the next day! Simply add the leftovers of this jalapeño popper dip recipe to an airtight container or cover it with plastic wrap, and keep it stored in the fridge.
Common Questions
Most of the time I just serve this with raw vegetables. My favorite veggie dipper is actually thinly sliced raw zucchini. It has a very mild flavor, so the flavor of the dip shines through. We also love raw sweet peppers, sliced cucumbers, celery sticks, broccoli, and cauliflower florets. For non-veggie options, try low carb chips or Keto Cheese Crackers.
For more options (that aren’t low carb), bagel chips, tortilla chips, pita chips, and baguette slices re nice choices.
Totally up to you. The seeds are the spiciest part of the jalapeno. I made sure to remove each and every seed. And I still didn’t even try the jalapenos on top. Told ya I was a wimp. Last time my husband and I got Indian takeout for date night I could barely eat it. My mouth was on fire after the first bite. Next time I will remember to ask for mild everything.
I’m a bit of a wimp when it comes to spicy food. I used 1/4 cup chopped jalapeno in my dip and it had a slight kick. I think I’m going to brave 1/2 cup next time. If you enjoy eating spicy food you can use a full cup and keep the seeds in for my jalapeno popper dip recipe.
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Jalapeno Popper Dip
Ingredients
Dip Ingredients:
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 – 1 cup jalapeno seeded and diced ***
- 1/2 cup bacon crumbles
- 4 oz cheddar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 cups chopped cooked chicken or steamed cauliflower
Topping Ingredients:
- 1 jalapeno thinly sliced and seeded
- 4 oz cheddar
- 1/2 cup bacon crumbles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Combine the dip ingredients and spread in a pie plate.
- Top with the remaining topping ingredients.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until hot and bubbly.
Notes
Nutrition
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Originally Published December 8, 2016. Revised and Republished January 5, 2026.
This was great and I made it just as described. My sister doesn’t eat anything spicy, so I had quite a bit left over. I grabbed an almond flour tortilla and used some of it as a wrap or burrito. It was even better as a wrap than it was as a dip. This is now one of my favorit wraps. YUMM, YUMM! It was so good!
Nutritional facts don’t include serving size…… I’m on a low-card diet and have to count those suckers!
A serving is 1/8th of the recipe. I normally just eye it up and scoop it onto my plate.
How do I save your recipes to Pinterest? I don’t see a pin anywhere. 😕
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This would be great with pork rinds as well!
The heat of a jalapeño is in the seeds and the membrane so if you remove all of that, the pepper is actually mild. Using a pickled jalapeño is often less spicy as well.
I still find jalapenos spicy without the seeds and membrane. But I’m a bit of a baby with spicy food 😉 I’ve never had pickled jalapenos. I’ll have to give them a try.
If you use the fresh green chilis (they look like larger jalapenos) they are very mild with all the flavor of a jalapeno. That’s what I use.
What do you use to dip into the dip? Or do you just eat the dip with a fork?
I’ve used veggies, low carb chips or crackers, or a fork 🙂