Stuffed Potato – Bacon Flavor

 

Potato is always seen as the staple food in the UK, even though there are other choices. ME!! I have paradoxical feelings for potato. I love to eat it when it is cooked to be very crispy. When it is mashed, I might say NO to it. So, I love to eat chips (A LOT), but no jacket potato. But, I am in the UK. I should learn more ways to cook potato instead of only 2 ways I know.

Stuffed potato is another way to cook it. It is like a combination of baked potato and mashed potato. Okay… Let’s go and challenge it.

 

Recipe

Step

(1) Chop bacon, onion and mushrooms into small pieces, around 0.5cm by 0.5cm

(2) Prepared a fried pan. Heat the oil in the pan. Then, place onion and mushrooms into the pan. Cook it for at medium heat around 3~5 minutes.
(3) Add bacon into the pan. Cook it with onion and mushrooms another 3~5 minutes until it is well-cooked. Season it with 1/2 tea spoon salt. Then, switch off the heat. Set aside

(4) Peel the potatoes. Half the potatoes. Place these potatoes into a pan. Add boiling water in. Add 2 tea spoon salt. Boiling it for 5 minutes.

(5) Take them out of the pan. Cool it down with the running water around 1 minute to be handled.
(6) Spoon the flesh out. Leave around 0.5 cm shell. Place the shell on the baking plate covered with baking paper. Drizzle the shell with 1/4 tea spoon salt. Send them into the pre-heated oven at 200C/390F for 10 minutes. Than, move the flesh back to the boiling water. Keep boiling another 10 minutes.

(7)Then, turn over these potatoes. Add 1/2 tea spoon butter on top of potato. Send them bake to the oven at 200C/390F for 10 minutes.

(8) Place the removed flesh into a big bowl. Add 1 tea spoon butter and 2 tea spoon milk into the bowl. Mash potatoes.
(9) Put bacon mixture into the bowl. Mix them with mashed potato
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: There are some juices in the pan. Don’t add these juices into the bowl.)

(10) Take potatoes out from the oven. It should turn the golden on the surface.

(11) Turn over these potatoes. Place bacon fillings on the top of each potato.
(12) Drizzle grated cheese over the top. Send it into the oven for another 3~5 minutes until the grated cheese is melted.

 

 

 

Again, I don’t like to eat mashed potato. This kind of cooking doesn’t have the texture of mashed potato in the mouth. It is more like the creamy texture in your mouth. The shell… It is good. It is crispy. I love it. It is a good way to cook potato if you are looking for a new way to eat potato. Try and enjoy it for this weekend. Enjoy it.