Yum! I have to share! I’ve never made twice-baked potatoes before, but I thought I’d give it my own spin and have a go. They were fantastic! Delicious, healthy, and filling!
As I’ve said before, I’m not extremely knowledgable with cooking. The process is not exact and I kind of just let it come about organically, but I’ll share and just say – go with the gut, use trial and error, and make the, what you want.
I started by washing two HUGE sweet potatoes and three very small russets. I cut most of them in half – except the smallest russet because there wouldn’t be room to fill so I took a smaller piece off the top. I kept the cut pieces together and places them in a dish along with two carrots that I cut into three smaller pieces for a better fit.
**Sorry about the lack of pictures here! Use your imagination now and check out the later pictures for the size of the potatoes.**
I placed the lid on the dish and microwaved them for a total of almost 15 minutes – checking about every two until they were soft but still able to hold up to filling.
I held each piece with a hot pad and scooped out the middle, being careful not to take too much. I did scoop too much out of three of the potato pieces, they broke apart or got too thin so they ended up joining the the filling!
I started mashing and smashing the potato pieces in a bowl. I filled a small bowl with about 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
I brushed each skin – inside and out – with olive oil and sprinkled salt and pepper over each.
To help make the filling creamier, without butter or cream, I got out my tub of plain non-fat yogurt.
I eyeballed about half a cup of the yogurt and mixed everything together.
I cut about six pieces of green onions from the ones growing in my kitchen and diced them up.
I also got out some bacon pieces and sprinkled about 1/4 to 1/2 a cup into the mixture.
I then folded in the onions and bacon.
I filled each potato and placed them in the oven at 350 for 15 minutes.
Not very easy to tell because by this point it was getting darker in the kitchen, but there is a nice little crust on the smashed potato mixture inside each on.
Tada! Here is my plate and my (almost) 2-year-olds plate. Although, he was impatient and ate the 2/3 cup of filling that didn’t make it into the potatoes before the rest even came out of the oven!
These were a big hit. My husband tried a bite before I told him there was yogurt in them. He made a face when I told him but then admitted he couldn’t tell and thought it was sour cream. I even got rave reviews from my picky-eater, 9-year-old step-daughter.
Give them a try! Experiment with it and make it your own!
