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Baked potatoes

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Scrub and prick whole potatoes, bake them at 200 °C for about an hour, then cut a deep cross in each one and fill it with mascarpone, avocado, red onion, fried mushrooms and bacon. Eight potatoes serve four as a main course.

Four baked potatoes on a white plate, each split open and topped with mascarpone, diced avocado, red onion, fried mushrooms and crisp bacon, with a bowl of chopped tomato beside them
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Four baked potatoes on a white plate, each split open and topped with mascarpone, diced avocado, red onion, fried mushrooms and crisp bacon, with a bowl of chopped tomato beside them

Recipe

Baked potatoes

Prep
10 mins
Cook
1 hr
Total
1 hr 10 mins
Serves
4 servings

Ingredients

Method

  1. Turn on the oven at 200 ° C.
  2. Scrub the potatoes free of soil or other dirt – remove any sprouts and ugly stains.
  3. Wipe the potatoes.
  4. Pierced the potatoes with a pin and put it in a tray – potatoes can explode when heated in the oven, and you will not want to.
  5. Put the potatoes in the oven and let them bake (pull out the pin and inspect if the insides are cooked). It takes about 1 hour depending on the size of the potatoes.
  6. Cut the bacon into smaller pieces, and sprinkle them brightly on a dry frying pan.
  7. Cut the mushrooms into slices and put them into the bacon, grease until all the liquid is gone.
  8. Pell the avocados and remove the seed and cut it into smaller cubes.
  9. Cut the tomatoes, and onions into the smaller pieces.
  10. Take the potatoes out of the oven, cut a deep cross on one wide side and squeeze so that the potato opens – it may be a good idea to use a pot for the purpose.
  11. Mix the mascarpone, avocado, onions, mushrooms, bacons, and garlic
  12. So it's just about filling the potatoes. Either you can serve the accessories in small bowls so that you can fill your potatoes yourself – or you can also go out of any ingredients that you do not like – or you can serve and serve the potatoes ready to eat.
  13. Baked potatoes are the easy to eat with a teaspoon.

Step by step, in pictures

The potatoes bake on their own for most of the hour, so the filling is made while they are in the oven. These six drawings follow the card.

  1. Line drawing of hands scrubbing a raw potato with a brush under a running tapScrub the potatoes clean.
  2. Line drawing of a raw potato pierced on a long pin beside a baking tray of four whole potatoesPrick each one with a pin.
  3. Line drawing of a hand sliding a tray of whole potatoes onto the rack of an open ovenBake at 200 °C for about an hour.
  4. Line drawing of bacon strips and sliced mushrooms in a frying pan with a spatulaFry the bacon, then the mushrooms.
  5. Line drawing of a bowl of creamy filling with diced avocado, mushrooms and bacon being stirred with a spoonMix the filling with the mascarpone.
  6. Line drawing of a baked potato cut open on a plate, filled to the top, with a teaspoon beside itCut a cross, squeeze open and fill.

How to prepare potatoes for baking

Choose potatoes of roughly equal size so they are ready at the same time. Scrub off all soil, cut away any sprouts and bad spots, then dry them. Prick each potato with a pin before it goes in the oven: a whole potato can burst as it heats.

How long to bake a potato at 200 °C (about 400 °F)

About 1 hour at 200 °C (392 °F), depending on the size of the potatoes. To check, pull out the pin and look at the inside: it should be cooked through and soft. Larger potatoes take longer, so test the biggest one.

Should you wrap baked potatoes in foil?

Not if you want a dry, crisp skin. A potato is mostly water, and foil traps the steam it gives off, so the potato steams instead of bakes and the skin turns soft. Foil does not make it cook faster either. Potatoes USA and the Idaho Potato Commission both advise against it. Foil is more useful after baking, to keep a large batch warm.

Can you bake potatoes in the microwave?

Yes, and it is much faster. The original version of this recipe gives about 12 to 15 minutes at full power for four large potatoes, turning them over halfway. Potatoes USA gives 5 to 15 minutes depending on size, with the potato pierced first and left to stand for five minutes afterwards.

How to serve filled baked potatoes

As a main course, allow two potatoes each and add a green salad. As a starter, serve one potato per person, so the eight potatoes on the card go twice as far.

Prefer them mashed? Mashed potatoes can go back in the oven too: see our baked mashed potatoes.

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