Sriracha Twice Baked Potatoes
Recipe: #24266
July 03, 2016
Categories: Side Dishes, Cheese, Appetizers, Potatoes, Romantic Dinner Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Sour Cream, Spicy, more
"This is a recipe I found off another food site that I adjusted to our liking...this makes a great side dish...or you can serve these as an appetizer, by cutting the halves in half again..."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (340.2 g)
- Calories 492.6
- Total Fat - 27.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 12 g
- Cholesterol - 59.3 mg
- Sodium - 1024.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 38.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.2 g
- Sugars - 2.8 g
- Protein - 23.4 g
- Calcium - 360.9 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 20.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 400°F and line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Rinse, scrub and dry the potatoes, poke with a fork to let steam out, then rub them with canola oil and sprinkle them with salt.
Step 2
Bake the potatoes until are cooked trough and the skin s crispy, about 50 minutes,.
Step 3
When the potatoes are cooked, let them sit just until they are cool enough to handle about 15 minutes.
Step 4
Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise, then use a spoon to scoop out the cooked inside,leaving about 1/2-inch of flesh on each skin.
Step 5
Line the potato skins up on the baking sheet.
Step 6
Put the scooped out insides in a medium mixing bowl with the sour cream, Sriracha and half of the cheese.
Step 7
Season the mixture with salt and pepper, then use a potato masher to mash the potatoes and mix everything together until it's combined.
Step 8
Scoop the mashed potato filling into the potato skins, then garnish with the remaining cheddar cheese and cooked bacon.
Step 9
Bake the stuffed potato skins in the oven until the skins are crispy, the filling is hot, and the cheese is melted, about 10-12 minutes.
Step 10
Serve immediately, with a dollop of sour cram on each potato skin.
Step 11
Garnish with cilantro leaves.
Tips
No special items needed.