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Crispy, golden, and full of flavor, these easy jalapeño bottle caps are the perfect appetizer or snack. Sliced jalapeños are battered, fried, and served with ranch.
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If you’re the kind of person who orders extra jalapeños on everything, you need these in your life. Jalapeño bottle caps are thin slices of pickled jalapeños, battered and fried until crispy and golden. They’re spicy, salty, crunchy little flavor bombs – basically bar snack heaven. Pile them on burgers, dunk them in ranch, or just eat them straight off the tray. 🔥
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Ingredients Overview
Ingredients Needed for Fried Jalapeno Chips
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- ¾ – 1 cup “lite” beer
- 1 ½ cups fresh jalapeno slices
- Canola oil for frying
Ingredient Substitutions
If you don’t have beer, club soda or sparkling water works too for a light, crispy batter!
Best Beer To Use
👍Choose a light beer like a pale lager (Budweiser, Coors, Miller Lite), a Mexican lager (Corona, Modelo, Pacifico), or a crisp pilsner. Make sure it’s cold – to achieve a lighter, crispier coating.
👎Avoid heavy beers (like stouts or porters) and hoppy IPAs — they’ll make the batter too rich or bitter.
Pro Tips: When measuring your beer, focus on the liquid, not the foam. A little foam is fine, but too much will throw off the batter.
Spice Levels
How Spicy Are Fried Jalapeño Slices?
Not as fiery as you’d expect — frying tames the jalapeños into a mild to medium heat with a warm, addictive kick, not a face-melting burn.
How to Make Them Less Spicy?
Want them milder? Remove the seeds and white membranes — that’s where the heat lives. Even if a little membrane stays, you’ll still cut the heat while keeping the flavor.
- After slicing into rings, use a small knife, toothpick, or fingertip to pop them out.
- Wear gloves if you’re sensitive to chili oils.
Tips for Perfectly Crispy Jalapeño Bottle Caps
Image 1: Coat the jalapeños. Cut jalapeños into ¼-inch rings so they cook evenly and don’t burn. Soak in seasoned batter until fully coated.
Image 2: Fry until golden. Shake off the excess batter before frying. Drop into oil kept at 365°F. Use a thermometer if you can – if the oil’s too cool soak it up; too hot and they’ll burn.
Image 3: Drain properly. Fry in small batches as crowding drops the oil temperature and makes the caps greasy. Use a strainer to lift them out when lightly golden.
Keep the batter clean by scooping out any little batter bits between batches — so they don’t burn and make the oil taste bitter.
Image 4: Cool and crisp. They’re ready when the batter is a light golden brown — they’ll keep cooking a little after you take them out. Let them drain on a rack or paper towels before serving.
How to Serve Fried Jalapeno Chips
With Dipping Sauces
These crispy bites are made for dipping. Serve them hot with one (or more!) of these easy homemade dipping sauces:
- Ranch Dipping Sauce – Cool, creamy, and ready in 10 minutes.
- Alabama White Sauce – Tangy, peppery, and packed with zesty flavor.
- Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce – Sweet, smoky, and a little spicy.
- Yum Yum Sauce – Creamy, tangy, and a touch sweet.
Additional Ways To Serve
Stack jalapeno bottle caps on burgers, stuff them into tacos and wraps, or toss them over nachos and salads for an epic spicy crunch. Or just pile them next to your BBQ favorites — ribs, pulled pork, brisket — and watch them steal the show.
How to Store Deep Fried Jalapeño Slices
(That’s if you even have any left — they tend to disappear fast!)
These are best eaten fresh when they’re hot and crispy, but if you need to store them:
- Cool completely on a wire rack — not paper towels — so they stay crispy instead of going soggy.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two days.
- Reheat in a 400°F oven for five to seven minutes to bring the crunch back. Skip the microwave — it’ll make them sad and soggy.
Freezing isn’t recommended — the batter softens once thawed and you’ll lose that addictive crunch.
Whether you’re serving them up for game day, burger night, or just because you need something salty and fried, these jalapeño bottle caps bring the punch every time. Bet you can’t stop at one (and honestly, why would you?).
More Jalapeño Recipes
- Sausage Stuffed Jalapeños
- Jalapeño Popper Chicken Pasta Casserole
- Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese
- Jalapeño Popper Dip
Jalapeño Bottle Caps
Crispy, golden, and full of flavor, these easy jalapeño bottle caps are the perfect appetizer or snack. Sliced jalapeños are battered, fried, and served with ranch.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 4
Ingredients
- Canola oil, for frying
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- ¾ to 1 cup American style lite beer (Miller Lite, Bud Lite or Coors Lite)
- 1 ½ cups fresh jalapeno slices, ¼ inch thick rings (from 4-5 large jalapenos)
Optional Dipping Sauce
- Bottled or homemade ranch dressing
Instructions
- Preheat canola oil in a heavy duty pot, or an electric deep fryer, to 365°F. Be sure to add enough oil to fill 3-4 inches deep in the pot, or to the fill line in the electric deep fryer. Line a large rimmed tray with paper towels and set aside.
- Whisk together in a large mixing bowl the all-purpose flour, salt, black pepper, garlic powder and smoked paprika.
- Add the lightly beaten eggs and ¾ cup lite beer to the bowl of dry ingredients and whisk until smooth. Add the remaining beer as needed to achieve a thinner than pancake consistency.
- Add ½ cup of the fresh jalapeno slices to the beer batter and toss to coat all the jalapeno slices.
- Using your fingers, or tongs, pick up individual slices of jalapenos, allowing excess batter to drip back into the bowl, then place the beer batter coated slices carefully into the hot oil.
- Fry the first batch of jalapeno bottle caps for 4-5 minutes or just until lightly golden on both sides.
- Using a spider scoop or wire skimmer, or a large metal slotted spoon, scoop out the fried jalapenos from the hot oil and place onto the paper towel lined tray to allow any excess oil to drain.
- Repeat steps 4-7 until all the jalapeno slices have been battered and fried.
- Once all the jalapeno bottle caps have been fried and drained on a paper towel, transfer them to a serving plate with a side of ranch dipping sauce to serve.
Notes
- Depending on the size of your pot, or electric deep fryer, you may need to do 3-4 batches to ensure not overcrowding the hot oil. This will help ensure the jalapeno slices do not stick together when frying and the temperature of the oil from dropping too low when frying.
- An American style lite lager beer was used to develop this recipe. You can substitute your favorite lite colored, and lite flavored, beer for the beer batter. You will need to remember that flavored craft style beers will impart their flavor to the batter for the jalapeno bottle caps.
- Remember that when measuring your lite beer, you do not want to measure all the foam on top of the beer when poured. A little foam is fine.
- If you prefer to not use lite beer to make your batter for the fried jalapenos, you can substitute unflavored seltzer water for the beer.
- Be sure to keep the oil temperature at 365*F between batches. You can use a candy thermometer for accuracy if frying on the stove, or an electric deep fryer with automatic temperature regulation.
Nutrition
Calories: 187kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 93mg | Sodium: 331mg | Potassium: 179mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 623IU | Vitamin C: 40mg | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 2mg
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