Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mike's perfect baked potatoes. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The perfect baked potato is crispy on the outside and pillowy in the middle. Cracked open and still steaming, it's ready to receive anything from a sprinkle of cheese to last night's stew. Prick the potatoes in a few places with the tines of a fork.
Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mike's perfect baked potatoes using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes:
- Take Basic Potatoes
- Make ready 2 Extra Large Idaho #1 Grade Potatoes [1+ pound a piece - choose fresh/firm potatoes without deep brown spots]
- Get Chilled Bacon Grease
- Prepare Fresh Cracked Black Pepper
- Get Garlic Powder
- Prepare Onion Powder
- Take Sea Salt
- Prepare 4 large Sheets Tinfoil
- Prepare Potato Toppers
- Prepare Salted Butter
- Get Shreadded Cheddar Cheese
- Get Fresh Sour Cream
- Prepare Fresh Parsley [chopped]
- Prepare Fresh Chives [chopped]
- Make ready Chopped Crispy Bacon Or Bacon Bits [optional]
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Instructions to make Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes:
- Preheat your oven to 400°.
- Clean and chop vegetables of your choosing. Cover and refrigerate.
- Fully clean and fully dry your Idaho #1 grade potatoes.
- With a sharp knife - peirce your spuds three times at both ends and once in the middle. Or, you can use a fork to peirce them.
- Place your spuds on a large piece of tinfoil. Shiney side up.
- Smear your potatoes generously with cold bacon grease. Place back on tinfoil. You can use olive oil but, bacon grease definitely makes these better!
- Sprinkle fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt, garlic powder and onion powder to taste on both sides of your bacon greased potatoes. I tend to go heavy on the sea salt! These are big spuds!
- Wrap your potatoes up tightly.
- Double wrap your potatoes tightly in another sheet of tinfoil. Again, shiney side up. A double wrap is more steak house style and steams your spuds more evenly.
- Place potatoes seam side up on the center rack and place a cookie sheet on the rack underneath it to catch any potential drippings.
- ● Bake for 1 1/2 hours. After that, gently peirce potatoes with a sharp knife in the center where you'll eventually slice your potatoes open. If the knife enters with ease - you'll know they're fully baked. If not, bake a bit longer until soft. ● Know that if you're baking more than 2 large potatoes - you'll need to increase your baking time by approximately 15 minutes.
- ● Once fully baked - you'll have two options. You can either serve by slitting the tinfoil and potato - then squeezing both ends together to force the moist insides up and out. Fluff with fork. Serve immediately with toppers of your guests choosing. ● Or, you can do the exact same thing but, gently scoop out the insides with a large spoon leaving your shells fully in tact. Place all insides quickly in a bowl, mix in all of your toppers in and, gently place back into your potato shells. You may need to re-heat mixture [not tinfoil] in the microwave before plating. Garnish with fresh chives and parsley. Enjoy!
Just follow these easy steps below to get started. And don't skimp on the brushed olive oil and course. Split the baked potatoes in half and scoop out most of the fluffy flesh with a fork into a bowl. For the filling, flake in the smoked mackerel and add the parsley or chives, three-quarters of the cheese, the horseradish or mustard and butter and stir with the potato flesh until just combined. Perfect baked potatoes print recipe. ***NOTE: The method listed below uses an oven to bake the potatoes.
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