Stuffed Potatoes
A dish of stuffed potatoes, also called twice-cooked potatoes, is an excellent way to prepare a tasty meal with modest resources.
Ingredients
8 small to medium new red potatoes or the more traditional 4 large russet potatoes. I prefer the new red potatoes.
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
1 cup chopped green onions or shallots
1 cup bacon bits
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon Paprika
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Boil the potatoes in their skins until cooked. You can bake the potatoes which would require baking at 400 degrees for about 60 minutes or more for large potatoes. Cut in half and scoop out the inside until about an eighth of an inch is left.
I add an extra potato to replace a potato I might mess up in the scooping process. The extra potato is added to the stuffing mix.
Prepare the stuffing mix. Combine all ingredients except for 1/2 cup of bacon bits, the paprika and the cheese. Mix well by hand or with a mixer.
Stuff the mix into the shells. Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes.
Mix the cheese, the remaining half cup of bacon bits, and the paprika together and place on top of the stuffed potatoes.
Place the stuffed potatoes back in the oven at 250 degrees for 20 minutes until the cheese is melted.
Options
A range of tasty options exist. One of the easiest is to include seafood in the mixture. Use 6-8 ounces of canned crab meat, imitation crab meat, diced clams or tuna. Drain the seafood before adding to the mixture. Adding 1/2 cup of blue cheese dressing to the mixture is popular.
Campfire Stuffed Potatoes
A different form of stuffed potatoes in Australia is a simple and tasty dish. Take a potato, slice it into half-inch wide pieces and place buttered onion slices between the potato slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Wrap each potato in heavy foil and bury in the campfire coals. You can rest the potatoes on top of the coals. You can also do this with sweet potatoes. In my younger days the potatoes were buried in the coals and cooked without the foil. This was a basic aboriginal cooking method. If you do not have a campfire try an oven at 400 degrees for at least 60 minutes. If I have the time I mix half a cup of olive oil with a tablespoon of bacon bits, half a teaspoon of dried basil and a half teaspoon of garlic salt and bast the onion slices and potato slices before baking.
Campfire Stuffed Potatoes
A different form of stuffed potatoes in Australia is a simple and tasty dish. Take a potato, slice it into half-inch wide pieces and place buttered onion slices between the potato slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Wrap each potato in heavy foil and bury in the campfire coals. You can rest the potatoes on top of the coals. You can also do this with sweet potatoes. In my younger days the potatoes were buried in the coals and cooked without the foil. This was a basic aboriginal cooking method. If you do not have a campfire try an oven at 400 degrees for at least 60 minutes. If I have the time I mix half a cup of olive oil with a tablespoon of bacon bits, half a teaspoon of dried basil and a half teaspoon of garlic salt and bast the onion slices and potato slices before baking.
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