This mouth-watering recipe is ready in just 1 hour and 10 minutes and the ingredients detailed below can serve up to 6 people.
Ingredients
Method
Preheat the oven to 200°C.
Wash the potatoes and pierce them with a fork. Rub the potatoes with the olive oil and place them on a baking tray. Bake the potatoes for 45 minutes to an hour, or until done. Remove the potatoes from the oven and cut them in half lengthwise. Set aside. Reduce the temperature of the oven to 175°C.
When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, scoop out the potato flesh into a large electric mixing bowl. Add the milk, butter, sour cream, cheese, garlic salt, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix until creamy. Divide the mixture evenly and spoon it back into the potato shells. Return the potatoes to the oven for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and garnish with the bacon and spring onion.
Cook Notes: I learned the hard way not to wrap the potatoes in foil before baking. It softens the shells and they will fall apart not good! Baking them unwrapped makes the shells stronger for scooping out the potato flesh later.
Recipe adapted from Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood (c) Clarkson Potter 2010
