While shopping at my local Sprouts Farmers Market, this doozy of a delight caught my eye—this Jalapeño Cheese Bread.

In the bakery, there were so many delicious breads like Focaccia and others that I saw with creative eyes while meal planning for today.

Many of the savory breads I saw I imagined could not only be joined with a main course but also become the stand-alone or main star on our kitchen table— just like this reconstructed Chicken Jalapeño and Olive Cheese Bread.

See I had actually gone to the store to pickup a few missing ingredients and items in preparation to make hand pies. My dough was in the fridge already made up and was set to defrost. However, there was a change of plans.

Though you could totally make this bread yourselves with flour, water and active dry yeast and top and stuff it with jalapeños and your choice of cheese—why not instead allow some things to already be prepared for you and make your cooking and baking life a breeze.

Well, today was one of those days for me and so this is a shortcut recipe that did not involve baking my own bread, but was ready to serve and eat—and already filled with cheese and stuffed with jalapeños. So it definitely has lots of heat to it. However, if you can’t take the heat, just remove as many jalapeños as you want from off the surface and inside the crevices of the bread, but either way you’ll still want to have plenty of water on standby to drink. 🥵

I merely added chopped cooked chicken that I prepared especially for this bread, topped with a few kalamata olives and added lots of more cheese to make a delicious easy peasy main course that only had to be warmed in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes and the rest is history.

RECIPE

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Chicken Jalapeño and Olive Cheese Bread

Hot and Cheesy Jalapeño and Olive Bread topped with balsamic flavored Chicken.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Mexican

Keyword bread, breads, cheese bread, chicken jalapeno olive cheese bread, jalapeno cheese bread

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 22 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 8

Ingredients

• 1 pound Ready Made Jalapeño Cheese Bread or Foccacia
• 1-1/2 tbsp Kalamata Olives
• 1 cup Colby Jack
• 3 Chicken Breasts cooked and chopped or shredded
• 1 /2 tbsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
• 1 tsp Chili Powder
• 1 /2 tsp Smoked Paprika
• 1/2 tsp Cumin
• 1 tsp Garlic Powder
• 3 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 tbsp Cilantro chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Season chicken with salt, pepper and spices.

3. Baste with balsamic vinegar and drizzle with a little olive oil.

4. Cook on baking pan for 15 minutes.

5. Remove from oven and allow to cool before chopping or shredding meat. Temporarily reduce temperature while chicken cools.

6. Next, top cheese bread with chopped chicken. Spread Kalamata olives all over the bread and sprinkle with cheese.

7. Increase oven temperature to 350 and bake and warm bread for 7 to minutes to allow cheese to melt and ingredients to heat up.

8. Top with chopped cilantro.