Easiest Crispy Jacket Baked Potato for Lazy Busy People
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 4 large potatoes (suitable for baking)
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Toppings
- salt (optional)
- butter (optional)
- garlic butter (optional)
- herb butter (optional)
- sour cream (optional)
directions
- Preheat your oven at 400 F (200 C).Scrub the potatoes well but keep them whole: don't peel or slice them. Place them onto a chopping board and stab each of them with a vegetable knife 4 or 5 times in various places.
- Put them onto the middle rack of the oven and cook for about 40 minutes or until they are soft and cooked though when tested with a knife.
- Place the cooked potato on the chopping board and cut an X shape in the top, but not all the way though, then using a clean towel or oven gloves (these babies are HOT) push the bits between the X to make it pop up nice and decratively and to have a place to put some butter or the topping of your choice. Enjoy!
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Reviews
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This is, of course, the correct (and perfect) way to bake a potato! If you use foil, then you are making a "steamed" potato. I usually use large potatoes, so cook them closer to an hour. I'll have to try the oil and salt method other reviewers have tried. This is the only way to make a real baked potato!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
kiwidutch
Netherlands