Recipe Collection: Potato Skins

Written by Kate Tietje

Remember how I told you, you could save the potato skins when we made Chicken Broccoli Baked Potato Soup?  Well, it was for this recipe!  This is a great way to be frugal in the kitchen, to get two meals out of one set of potatoes.  Scoop the potatoes for the soup lightly and save them for this use.  They will keep in the fridge for a few days after soup-making if you don’t want this immediately.  It’s a wonderful use of “leftovers” you would otherwise throw away.  I need all the help I can get with how my kids eat!

Luckily, these are also super simple to make.  And yummy.  Serve them alone as a snack, as a side dish to grilled summer burgers, or as a game-day appetizer if you are into sports.  I’m told they’re popular there…although I wouldn’t know. 🙂

If you don’t have leftover skins, simply bake your potatoes for about an hour (with holes poked in them, please, so they don’t explode!), allow them to cool enough to handle, slice lengthwise, and scoop out most of the flesh.  Then, use that for the soup.  Either way, you get the soup!

Potato Skins

Ingredients:

• 4 – 6 medium potatoes, washed, poked, and baked
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 4 oz. shredded cheddar cheese
• 2 – 3 strips of bacon, cooked until crisp
• Green onions, sour cream, etc. for serving

Directions:

Step 1: Scoop the skins out (leaving some potato left) and lay them on a baking tray.

Step 2: Put a small piece of butter into each, about 1/2 tsp.

Step 3: Stick this in the oven at 350ºF for 5 – 10 minutes until the butter is melted.

Step 4: Once they come out of the oven, add the shredded cheese and top with bacon.

Step 5: Stick this back in the oven for another 5 minutes or so (until the cheese is melted).

Step 6: Remove from the oven and top with bacon, green onions, and sour cream, if you like.

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Potato Skins

Ingredients

• 4 - 6 medium potatoes washed, poked, and baked
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 4 oz. shredded cheddar cheese
• 2 - 3 strips of bacon cooked until crisp
• Green onions sour cream, etc. for serving

Instructions

• Scoop the skins out (leaving some potato left) and lay them on a baking tray.
• Put a small piece of butter into each, about 1/2 tsp.
• Stick this in the oven at 350ºF for 5 - 10 minutes until the butter is melted.
• Once they come out of the oven, add the shredded cheese and top with bacon.
• Stick this back in the oven for another 5 minutes or so (until the cheese is melted).
• Remove from the oven and top with bacon, green onions, and sour cream, if you like.

How do you like to serve potato skins?