Potato Skin Twist

Author: Matthew J. Goudge




Are you wondering what to do with the potato skins that you have leftover from your mashed potato dish? If you are, then here are a variety of ways on how you can make use of the potato skin.
Instead of throwing them away or putting them inside the compost bin, you can utilize them for another purpose, the loaded potato skin.

Reusing Potato Skin

Have you ever heard of the loaded potato skin? This mini-dish is often served in bars and pubs, and it serves as great snacks or appetizers. Simply put, loaded potato skins are the carved out potato skins with some meat, veggies, cream or cheese, etc. placed over it. The potato skins are then popped into the oven to bake.
You can set aside the flesh or the meat of the potato for another dish, such as the mashed potato. Or when you are making a mashed potato dish, you can set aside the potato skins for the loaded potato skin dish. Either way, nothing is going to waste.
These loaded potato skins are perfect for simple get-together with your friends, and they will also be good snacks when you are watching sports or movies with your best buddies. Couple this dish with beer, and you have yourself a healthy and delicious snack.

Simple Loaded Potato Skin Recipe

As stated above, there are a lot of loaded potato skin recipes that you can try out at home, the most common of which is regular bacon and cheese loaded potato skin.
All you will need to have are the potato skins left over from your mashed potato dish, bacon, cheese, butter, salt and pepper, sour cream, and chives. If you have none, you can make use of whole potatoes.
Clean the potatoes and make sure that they are dried before you place them inside the oven. The oven should have been preheated to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Bake the potatoes inside the oven for about 50 minutes or until the potato skins have turned crisp. Once done, transfer the potatoes onto a plate to allow them to cool, and if they are cool enough, slice the potatoes into halves, lengthwise.
Remove the flesh gently, making sure that you leave at least 0.25 inches of the flesh intact. You can set aside the flesh for another dish, such as your mashed potatoes.
Once the potatoes have been hollowed out, brush some melted butter over the potato halves, inside and out, and then season it with some salt and pepper. Pop them into the oven once more and bake them until the skin begins to crisp. This will take about a couple of minutes. Once done, flip them over and bake them for another couple of minutes.
Remove the crispy potato skins from the oven and fill them up with fried bacons that you have crumbled to smaller pieces. Top the bacon off with cheese and pop them in the oven once more until the cheese melts and begins to bubble. This will take about four minutes to five minutes.
Once done, remove the loaded potato skins from the oven, add a dollop of sour cream to each loaded potato skin, and then sprinkle them with chopped fresh chives.
Loaded potato skins are best served immediately so as to preserve the crispiness of the potato skins.
There are other recipes for loaded potato skins. You have Philly cheesesteak loaded potato skins as well as Reuben loaded potato skins. You can also try tuna melt loaded potato skins or smoked trout loaded potato skins. Of course, you can always invent your own loaded potato skin recipe using your leftover meat dishes. You can make all-veggies loaded potato skin if you are into healthy foods.
What loaded potato skin are you going to make today?

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About the Author

Chef Matthew, the owner of ProChef360 Blog, is an expert in culinary arts.
He is after all an outstanding chef, having had worked in some of the finest resorts, hotels and restaurants in the world.
His interest, however, in social media was awakened when he started his own websites.
Over the years, he took it upon himself to learn everything he can about social media.