Easy Jacket Potatoes
Easy Jacket Potatoes

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Easy Jacket Potatoes is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Easy Jacket Potatoes is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Rub the olive oil over the potatoes and put on the top shelf of the oven. A jacket potato is a baked potato, the way people call baked potatoes in Britain. I used to eat jacket potatoes quite often while living in London, they were a quick, cheap and delicious thing to eat during the lunch break or on a lazy Sunday when I did not feel much like cooking.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy jacket potatoes using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Jacket Potatoes:
  1. Prepare 4 large potatoes, washed
  2. Get 1 medium brown onion, peeled-1/2'd & sliced
  3. Prepare 1 cup Sliced bacon
  4. Make ready 3/4 cup Sour cream
  5. Get 3/4 cup Grated cheddar cheese
  6. Get 1 Sprinkle garlic salt
  7. Prepare 1 Cracked black pepper
  8. Prepare 1 Olive oil
  9. Prepare 1 stick Green onion, sliced

The best way achieve this may come from the British, who have been making "jacket potatoes" for a long time. Jacket potatoes are the British sibling to our classic American baked potato. However, a few slight tweaks to the recipe yield drastically different results. The jacket potato boasts crispy skin with phenomenally fluffy insides, the likes of which I've seldom encountered in the States.

Steps to make Easy Jacket Potatoes:
  1. Pre-heat oven to 180*C.
  2. In a large mixing bowl- throw in spuds and coat with olive oil and garlic salt. Transfer to oven and bake until skin is crunchy and starts to wrinkle and centre is soft. Remove from oven.
  3. Meanwhile- fry onion and bacon until bacon is cooked and onion is slightly caramelised. Remove and set aside.
  4. Now slice spuds lengthways (not all the way through) so you can add your filling. Bacon and onion first- then sour cream- grated cheese on top and seasoning.
  5. Return to the oven until cheese has melted. Sprinkle with sliced green onion and serve. Goes really well as a side with pork chops- or a nice piece of beef steak. Enjoy!
  6. Serves 4 sides. More people over for dinner? Just cook a few more spuds and up the ingredients.

An exceedingly easy meal, with minimal preparation, jacket potatoes are a good standby when you want don't want to spend any preparation time cooking. Slice each potato in half and scoop out the soft potato into a bowl. Add the milk and butter and mash with a fork. Stir in the topping of your choice (see below), season and mix to. Learn how to cook a perfect jacket potato in the oven.

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