Tasty Tuesday: PW'S Potato Skins
For today’s Tasty Tuesday recipe, I have yet another recipe from the Pioneer Woman’s Cookbook, Recipes From an Accidental Country Girl, to share with you. I cannot speak highly enough about her recipes! They are so tasty and easy to make. I love the fact that she includes step-by-step instructions and pictures with each recipe, so even if you are a new cook, you don’t have to feel intimidated by her recipes! GO HERE if you would like to order her cookbook for yourself.
So, let’s get to the recipe! This is a recipe that will be perfect for those Football months ahead of us! My hubby loves these and yours will too! :)
PW’S Potato Skins
INGREDIENTS:
8 slices of thick cut bacon ( I used turkey bacon and it tasted just fine)
8 russet potatoes, scrubbed clean
Canola oil
Kosher salt
1 ½ cups cheddar cheese
1 cup of sour cream (I used reduced fat and it tasted just fine)
4 green onions, sliced
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Go ahead and fry the bacon.
- Wash the potatoes and rub the skin liberally with canola oil. Place on baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the potatoes are fork-tender.
- Slice the potatoes in half lengthwise.
- With a cookie scoop or spoon, scrape out the inner flesh of the potatoes, leaving a small space to fill each skin. (Use this potato mixture the next day to make mashed potatoes as a side dish for dinner-I love that you can get 2 dishes out of this one recipe!)
- Brush both sides of the potato with canola oil. Salt both sides liberally.
- Place the skins cut side down on the pan and return to the oven.
- Bake for 7 minutes, then flip the skins to the other side.
- Bake for 7 minutes more, or until the skins are crispy.
- Sprinkle cheddar cheese and bacon over each skin.
- Return to oven until cheese is melted.
- Place a tablespoon of sour cream onto each potato skin.
- Sprinkle chopped green onion on top of each skin.
- Eat and Enjoy!
These are some of the best potato skins that we have ever eaten!