Mmmm crispy potato skins filled with your favorite vegetables and proteins and maybe a little cheese.
Use anything your heart desires, there are no rules, you’ve eaten enough of these to know what you like! Look in your refrigerator for leftover vegetables like broccoli or chard or kale. I had some red chard, meatballs, a little bacon and a few roasted chilies (I wish I had broccoli for the photo) that needed using. Potato skins are a great way to pull together a really delicious meal.
To make your potato skins start by baking washed, oiled and salted potatoes in a 400F oven for 40-60 minutes depending on how big your potatoes are. Stab the potatoes a few times so they don’t blow up. Trust me on this and stab them. Make more than you need if you have lots of potatoes that need using up. These freeze beautifully or keep in the refrigerator for several days for quick meals or snacks.
When the potatoes are done baking, let them cool for a few minutes and cut them in half and scoop out the insides. Save the insides for soups or mashed potatoes. If you’re a bread baker like me, use the insides for making bread or rolls. You can also use the mashed potatoes to stuff the skins and make twice baked potatoes. If you look at the top picture I used mashed potatoes and meatballs for some of my skins.
Oil the skins and put them skin side up and bake for about 10 minutes to crisp them up.
Then flip them over and fill them with whatever you like.
Bake them for another 10 or 15 minutes until your fillings are crispy and melty.
So versatile and so good.
Have a great week. I’ll see you at pickup.
Mo