Complete Steps on How to Make Baked Potatoes

Beside fried potatoes, potato chips, and mashed potatoes, one best way to enjoy potatoes are by bake them. The taste is crisp outside and soft with waxy and fluffy texture inside. Yum! The process also simple and the cooking time is various according to the way you bake them. Using microwave fill give you fastest result but you will get less crispy baked potatoes. While using the oven will give you crunchy and crispy result, but with the longer time cooking. And if you want baked potatoes as your dinner but you have to work all day long from the morning, you can use slow-cooker to bake your potatoes.

So, how to make baked potatoes? You already know equipment to bake potato, but how to make delicious baked potatoes? Lets we discuss them below.

Tips to Make Baked Potatoes

You can use small, medium, or russet potatoes. The large potato like russet has best result like thick skin and sweet flesh inside. You have to always wash the potatoes before you can bake them. Be careful to make the skin intact, not break them. After that, how to make baked potatoes? First, using the fork, you must pierce the potatoes skin. It will prevent them from bursting in the baking process. All of these steps are very important so you will get good result of your baked potatoes.

Make Delicious Baked Potatoes

There are two ways to bake your potatoes into delicious dish. If you love simple way to make baked potatoes, you can bake them once, give them salt and pepper, and garnish with butter. But if you love more delicious ways to enjoy them, you can bake them twice. There are plenty of recipes for each way of baking potatoes. You can add many ingredients like bacons, cheese, or any ingredien you love to make your baked potatoes tastier. Lets see how to make baked potatoes based on once baked potatoes and twice baked potatoes way.

Basic Baked Potato

If you want to make basic baked potato, you can try this recipe. Easy and simple, and the taste also delicious.

You will need:

• 4 scrubbed russet potatoes
• Olive oil
• Sea salt and ground black pepper to taste
• Butter (choose unsalted butter) for topping
• Parmesan cheese, grated
• Chives for garnish

Preparation:

• Before you know how to bake the potatoes, you must scrub them first until clean. Use cold water.
• Dry the potatoes.
• Prick all potatoes with fork. This will make your potatoes cooked perfectly and will not burst when they are in the oven.

How to make:

• You will use oven to bake your baked potatoes. Preheat to 350ËšF.
• Rub them all with olive oil.
• Add salt and pepper to make it more delicious.
• Bake in the oven until the skin look crisp (about 60-75 minutes).
• Cut the top of every potatoes, add salt and pepper of you like, then give butter as topping and garnish with chives. Or you can choose other topping like sour cream and cheese.

So, that is how to make baked potatoes, with basic recipe and only passed one stage baking. Simple and the result is delicious. You can make delicious dish for yourself and your family. Also, you will only need at least 1 hour to make them so it will be a perfect side dish or dinner.

Lets see the second way to make baked potatoes.

Twice Baked Potatoes

This is the second way on how to make baked potatoes is baked them twice. It tasted richer than potatoes that only baked once. But you will need a longer time to cook. Lets see how to make it. 

What you will need:

• 4 russet potatoes
• Olive oil
• ½ c. sour cream
• ½ c. milk
• 2 tbsp. softened butter
• 1 tbsp. Cream

Preparation:

• Before you know how to bake the potatoes with this second way, you must scrub them first under running water.
• Dry the potatoes.
• Prick all potatoes with fork. 

How to make:

• Preheat your oven first to 400ËšF.
• Rub all potatoes with olive oil, bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Let the potatoes cold first, the cut them into half and take the pulp softly. Keep the skin because we will use them later.
• Using the large bowl, mix the pulp with sour cream, milk and the softened butter.
• Put the pulp mixture into the potato skins.
• Heat your oven to 350Ëš and bake the potatoes again for 15 minutes.

Easy, right? That is how to make twice baked potatoes.