"Baked potato or Jacket potato, a perfect dinner recipe on your rushed weeknight or lunch when you’re craving something both appetizing and comforting. Baked potatoes can be served loaded or unloaded with varieties of stuffing. I like this hunger satisfying recipe loaded with goodness of veggie for delightful as well as healthy meal. This recipe is bit time consuming but it is stress-free & effortless recipe; easily can be prepared in big batch and served. Potato being the main ingredient of this recipe; really need to choose your potato very wisely. High starched Russet potatoes are the best for this recipe, fluffy from inside and a crispy from outside; taste yum when mashed & combined with butter, grilled veggies and condiments."
Cuisine: American/World | Recipe Category: Lunch & Dinner
Prep Time: 10 Minutes | Bake time: 1 Hour | serving: 4 Large Size Potatoes
Prep Time: 10 Minutes | Bake time: 1 Hour | serving: 4 Large Size Potatoes
Ingredients
Baked Potatoes
1.
|
Russet
Potatoes (Baking Potatoes)
|
4 Large size
|
2.
|
Olive
oil
|
1
Tsp.
|
3.
|
Salt
|
To
taste
|
4.
|
Sesame
seeds (Optional)
|
1
Tsp.
|
Grilled Vegetables
1.
|
Bell
pepper cored, seeded and thinly sliced
(I
used red and green)
|
1
Medium
|
2.
|
Zucchini,
thinly sliced strips (2” long)
|
1
Small
|
3.
|
Yellow
squash, thinly sliced strips (2” long)
|
1
Small
|
4.
|
Onion,
sliced
|
1
Medium
|
5.
|
Crimini
mushroom, sliced
|
½
Cup
|
6.
|
Broccoli
florets, cut into small bite size pieces
|
7-8
pc
|
7.
|
Oil
|
2
Tbsp.
|
8.
|
Salt
|
To
taste
|
9.
|
Black
pepper
|
To
tatse
|
Serving & Garnishing
1.
|
Butter
|
4
Tbsp.
|
2.
|
Black
pepper
|
To
taste
|
3.
|
Salt
|
To
taste
|
4.
|
Sour
cream
|
1
cup or As required
|
5.
|
American
corn, boiled or blanched
|
1/2
Cup
|
6.
|
Jalapeno,
finely chopped
|
2-3
Pc
|
7.
|
Onion,
finely chopped
|
½
Cup
|
8.
|
Coriander/Spring
onion/Parsley, finely chopped
|
4
Tbsp.
|
Step By Step Instruction: [Hide Images]
Baking the Potatoes
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Rinse; scrub the potatoes clean with eyes and surface blemished removed and dry.
- Prick the potatoes with fork/knife and rub them with olive oil and salt. Pricking allows the steam to escape during the baking process and prevent from splitting open.
- Place the potatoes in baking tray or directly onto the middle rack of the oven, and bake them for 1 hour or until tender. Sprinkle sesame seeds if using.
Grilled Vegetables
- While the potatoes are getting baked lets prepare the grilled vegetable. Slice the veggies mentioned for grilling in long stripes.Blanch corn kernel & broccoli florets.
- Place a large grill pan/skillet over medium-high heat and allow becoming very hot. Once the pan is hot, add the 1 Tbsp. of oil and grill veggie until lightly brown, for about 2-3 minutes.
- I grilled everything separately as I had small pan and toss all together with salt and pepper to taste.
- Keep aside until potatoes are baked.
Serving & Garnishing
- Once potatoes are baked, remove and allow them to cool enough so they are easy to handle.
- Slit the potatoes length-wise into the middle and using a fork; gently prick the inner pulp of the potato, as close as to the skin
- Add a pinch of salt, pepper and spread 1 Tbsp. of butter. Load the potato with corn kernels, sour creamand grilled veggies.
- Garnish with chopped jalapeno, onions and coriander or whatever green you are using.
- Serve hot.
Quick Tips
- Potato selection: For this recipe, selection of right kind of potatoes is very important. Russet and King Edward potatoes are best for baking, owing there perfect size, consistency and highly starched.
- Baking methods: Potatoes can be baked in an electric oven, a convection oven, a microwave oven, on a barbecue grill, or on/in an open fire. When cooking in an open fire or in the coals of a barbecue, potato should be wrapped in foil to prevent burning of the skin. And cooking potatoes in a standard oven, wrapping helps in retaining the moisture, while leaving them unwrapped will result in a crisp skin.
- Helathy diet: Despite of the popular misconception that potatoes are calorific, baked potatoes can be eaten as part of a healthy diet. Baked potatoes taste delicious both ways with or without skin. Potatoes baked in their skins tend to lose between 20 and 40% of their vitamin C content. Small potatoes bake more quickly than large ones and therefore retain more of their vitamin C.
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