This is my attempt at doing Potato Skins. I would love
to hear about how you do it.
Ingredients:
3 baking potatoes (I used Agria)
Cos lettuce
Bacon
Oil – canola in my case
Crème fraiche (about ½ a little tub)
Mayonnaise – about half of the crème fraiche
quantity
Smallish amount of blue vein cheese
Tablespoon of Dijon mustard
Tabasco sauce to taste
Chopped parsley for garnish
Paprika
Method:
Scrub your potatoes and bake them whole in a medium
oven until cooked.
When they have cooled enough for you to handle, cut
the potatoes in half longitudinally and scoop out the cooked potato with a
teaspoon trying not to pierce the skin – leaving a little potato on the skin is
ok (and in fact my better half preferred to have some on the skin).
Keep the potato for making something else.
Put the potato skins back into the oven after
drizzling them with a little oil. Cook
for another 20 minutes or so until they crisp up and are firm – I used my fan
bake function for this.
While they are cooking prepare your dressing for
the lettuce – which is simply that you mix up the crème fraiche, mayonnaise,
crumbled blue cheese, mustard and tabasco with a spoon. If you feel the dressing is too thick you can
add a wee splash of water to loosen it up a tad.
Prepare your lettuce by tearing it up into smallish
pieces – doing it with a knife would be fine too. Chop up a small amount of fresh herbs – I used
Italian parsley.
Cut your bacon/pancetta into smallish pieces and
crisp them up in the oven while your potato skins are finishing off.
Now it's just an assembly job. Put the potato skins on a plate, pop some
bacon in each one. Mix your dressing through
the lettuce and spoon the dressed lettuce into each potato skin. Sprinkle each with some chopped herb and some
paprika (which I forgot).
The result is very tasty – and best of all can be
eaten quite easily and neatly just with your fingers! Would be a good thing to take to a party.
I love potato skins! We usually save the skins after having baked potatoes. The next day I heat them up in the oven and serve them with butter, sour cream and grated cheese topped with bacon bits! Yummy!
ReplyDeleteThose look good, that is party food there!
ReplyDeleteYUM! Thanks for this recipe, Carole. It looks terrific - a great party appetizer.
ReplyDeleteThese look like a nice alternative to the bacon and cheddar cheese loaded skins I frequently see around here.
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