How do u cook your jacket spuds? and whats ur favourite filling?!
How do u cook your jacket spuds? and whats ur favourite filling?
do u cook them in the oven? wrapped in foil or not? or in a microwave? and whats ur fav filling...best answer given to most original and mouth watering.....
Answers:
You can put them in the Oven...I always find this is the best way to make the skin crisp and crunchy.
First Wash and Prick the potato all over then rub over with Sea Salt and Olive Oil (or whichever oil you prefer).
Place in the oven at about 200c and leave cooking for about an hour.
Then, when cooked. Slice Open like a cross, put some melted butter in, then get a fork or spoon and mush up the insides so they are nice, creamy and smooth. Plus the added bonus of having the butter mixing in with the potato. Add Salt and Pepper if desired.
My Favourite Jacket Potato Filling is Cottage Cheese and Chives, melts in your mouth or Tuna Mayonnaise or a personal favourite Garlic Mushrooms
Ingrediants
# 15g (1/2oz) butter
# 2 Cloves, crushed garlic
# 175g (6oz) sliced mushrooms
# 2 x 15ml spn (2 tblspn) cream cheese
# 2 x 15ml spn (2 tblspn) freshly chopped herbs (rosemary, parsley & thyme)
# salt
# freshly ground black pepper
Method
# After the potato has been cooking for about 45 minutes, melt the butter in a saucepan, add the garlic and mushrooms and cook gently for 5 - 10 minutes depending on the variety, (wild mushrooms need to be cooked thoroughly).
# Stir in the cream cheese and continue cooking for 1 minute. Add the herbs and season to taste.
# When the potatoes are cooked cut them almost in half lengthways and spoon in the mushroom sauce.
# Those potatoes not served can be transferred to the top display/storage area to stay hot until you are ready to serve them.
# Always use insulated oven gloves when handling hot potatoes and opening/closing the oven door.
The oven takes too long so i use the microwave. I like it with tuna and mayo.
microwave filling with butter and chilli
Cooked for 5 minutes in the microwave, then 30 minutes in the oven to get the skin crispy. My favourite filling is beans, with a bit of added tomato puree and crispy baceon, with cheese on top. Yum!
Put them in the microwave for 6 minutes on a sheet of paper, fill them with cheese and baked beans... mmmm
Just had Spuds cooked in the Microwave and had some Baked Beans with them. Butter too. Yummy.
microwave for ten minutes then oven for twenty minutes all depends on size nice bit of cheese on top melted
Like Nigel Slater said, nothing better than a simple potato, covered in olive oil and sprinkled all over with rock salt, gas mark 6-7 for 45mins-1.5hrs, you can tell when it's done just by looking at it, it should be dark all over and crispy, check it at 15min intervals from 45mins, crispy outside, soft and fluffy inside. Yummy!
Topping wise nothing beats butter the a tin of tuna with a little balsamic viniger, it takes the edge of the fatty/filling buttery jacket, and healthy too. mmmmmmmmm
No foil! I rub olive oil all over the potato and then sprinkle it with salt and pepper and bake it in the oven. This always makes the inside come out nice and fluffly and the skin so tasty!! On the inside I like the usual: butter, cheese, chives.
The very best way to cook them is wrapped up in foil in a big bonfire until they're oh so soft, there's no taste like it.
Then add a lump of butter followed by mixed grated cheese & carrot - it's delicious!!!
:)
Chuck em in the oven, no foil (i think the skin nice and crispy). Fave filling would be Tuna-Mayonnaise and Worcester sauce, topped with cheese and popped back in oven for 5 mins .... Slurrrrrp .... Got me hungry now.
I cook mine in the oven without foil and then i use butter, cheese and beans lovely. Forget the microwave, a potato takes all that time to grow you cvant wait a little bit longer to enjoy it properly
Pop them in the oven. No foil - the skin is the best bit.
Baked beans and grated cheese ............. Yum !!
Oven takes a long time, and is a little silly for one or two Baked Potatoes. but if the ovens on then thats whatI prefer.. it does make a huge difference in my view, esepcially if you get the outer skin really really crispy...
fav fillings.....
butter by itself
aside from that anything... chill/bolegnese sauce, tuna mayo you name it...
I don't cook my jacket and who are you calling "Spuds"!LOL
Luv to stick 'em on the barbi wrapped in foil filling has to be beanz n Bacon!!Yum
I cook mine in the microwave because it is so quick. The best filling is prawns with seafood sauce and a little salad on the side. In fact you have got my tastebuds going so I am going to do one right now.
Hi I do mine in the microwave as its much quicker. I love just plain chedder cheese with a big dollop of magerine, but as thats quite fatty I now use cottage cheese its really creamy and makes the spud taste creamier too.
give them a good clean, pop in microwave for 10mins on high power, take out and pop in hot oven about 200 (elec) or gas mark 6 for half an hour just to crisp it up.
Baked beans with lots of cheese is extremely yummy,
coleslaw with prawn mayo, baked beans and cheese yummy scrummy.
Oven with bacon over them and cook slowly like 2 hours on 130, then pump the heat up and let go crispy. It is good if you are going to do something and want something healthy and quick like after food shopping or something, put on before go then when you get home turn heat up and in 20Min's a nice potato. Soft and crispy on the outside. I slice mine in half put cream cheese and chicken, sweetcorn, bacon or what ever you have to hand sprinkle with cheese and grill for 3-4 Min's. Oh I think I know what I will have for dinner now.
Depends how much time I have.
Quick & Easy is pre-heat oven to 220c then micro the spud (prick it all over with a fork first) for 10 - 15 mins depending how big. The skewer with a metal skewer and into the oven to crisp up.
Slow and Lazy - pre-heat to 190c. Rub vegie oil into the skin, season. Skewer with a metal skewer then bake for 1.5 hours till cooked.
My favourtie filling....
Smoked haddock with cheese sauce all mushed up in to the potato topped with gruyere and coloured under a grill....
Take a piece of smoked haddock
Put at least half a pint of milk into a saute pan.
Put the haddock in the milk, add a bay leaf and poach it.
Carefully lift the haddock (and bay leaf) out after about 5 mins max. Set to one side.
Meanwhile, melt a good knob of butter in a saucepan. Add a good spoonfull of flour then gradually stir/whisk in the milk from the poaching till you have a nice thick double cream consistency and no lumps.
Grate in strong cheddar cheese and allow to melt. Add the haddock in lumps and gently fold in. If you stirr to vigourously, it tunrs to mush. Add some cooked peas and or sweetcorn to and season to taste.
Then get your spud, open it up and mash up the insides. Add your haddock mix. Grate some Gruyer on top and stick under the grill till golden brown.
Serve.
Enjoy :)
BTB
i cook my spuds in microwave until almost cook, then finish then in oven.after adding dices of ham,shreded cheese and butter (my fav filling) i place it under the grill for a couple of mins.
We're having jacket potatoes for dinner tonight! I do them in the microwaive and I'll be having prawn cocktail (from Asda) in mine, with a nice salad on the side.
In the microwave until it starts to soften then in the oven for a crispy skin
that's about 10 Min's in each
beans u cant beat beans
cook them in the microwave for 10mins to start them off and then in the oven for 20mins to firm them up, favorite filling, sour cream and chive dip
I do mine in the oven wrapped in foil then fill them with butter,cheese and beans