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Twice-Baked Potatoes
RECIPE COURTESY OF REE DRUMMOND
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr 50 min
Prep: 30 min
Cook: 1 hr 20 min
Yield: 12 to 16 servings

Ingredients

8 baking potatoes, washed
3 tablespoons canola oil
2 sticks salted butter
1 cup bacon bits (fry your own!)
1 cup sour cream
1 cup Cheddar or Jack cheese (or a mix of both), plus more for topping
1 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons seasoned salt
3 green onions, sliced
Freshly ground black pepper

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Place the potatoes on a baking sheet. Rub them with the canola oil and bake for 1 hour, making sure they’re sufficiently cooked through.

Slice the butter into pats. Place in a large mixing bowl and add the bacon bits and sour cream. Remove the potatoes from the oven. Lower the heat to 350 degrees F.

With a sharp knife, cut each potato in half lengthwise. Scrape out the insides into the mixing bowl, being careful not to tear the shell. Leave a small rim of potato intact for support. Lay the hollowed out potato shells on a baking sheet.

Smash the potatoes into the butter, bacon and sour cream. Add the cheese, milk, seasoned salt, green onions and black pepper to taste and mix together well. (IMPORTANT: If you plan to freeze the twice-baked potatoes, do NOT add the green onions.)

Fill the potato shells with the filling. I like to fill the shells so they look abundant and heaping. Top each potato with a little more grated cheese and pop ’em in the oven until the potato is warmed through, 15 to 20 minutes.

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Then i have them let them cool just for a few minutes and i’m scooping out the shells i leave a little bit of a border just to give them some support but i’m going to have this huge bowl of potato and that’s where all the good

Stuff’s gonna go now i’m in here getting ready for the food part my husband’s outside getting ready for everything else why don’t you all start filling that one up and i’ll do this one we’re gonna need a lot of ice when we get done with this so we can

Make sure everything’s really cold get some ice and we can then we can put a few more in One of the things i love adding to my twice baked potatoes is thick cut bacon so all this bacon is going to distribute nicely it won’t be excessive i promise well it won’t be too excessive anyway i’m adding six sticks of butter to these potatoes now i did a little math and

I baked 24 potatoes that translates to 48 potato halves and i’m adding 48 tablespoons of butter to the potatoes so each potato half will only wind up with one tablespoon of butter so if you think of it that way it won’t seem so overwhelming and i’m gonna

Put the bacon on top of it to hide the evidence all right six total cups of shredded cheese i’m gonna save three cups for the finished potatoes and i’ll add three cups now i’m gonna add a cup and a half of milk this will just make the potatoes nice and moist and soft

And then shield your eyes again sour cream fortunately i’m not easily shocked when it comes to ingredients like this chopped green onions adds a nice sharpness a little more salt and pepper because really you’re having to season a lot of potatoes here and the potatoes in this area don’t come pre-seasoned

And then just a sprinkling of seasoned salt you can make your own seasoned salt if you want things like paprika onion powder onion salt garlic powder or you can just buy this okay now i’ve got to mix this together i’m feeling a little overwhelmed but wish me luck i’m going in I think i probably needed a bigger bowl i’m just going to fold in the bulk of the ingredients and now i’ll grab the masher my friend hyacinth who’s coming to dinner tonight always digs in and mixes her twice baked potatoes with her hands i thought i’d spare myself the agony

Okay i finally got it mixed together all right i’ve got the shells ready to go they really held their shape nicely and then i just scooped the filling into each shell because i added so many ingredients to the potatoes i’ll wind up with way more filling than i need

One reason twice baked potatoes are so perfect for parties aside from the fact that they’re totally delicious is that you can make them way in advance you can make them early in the day stick them in the fridge and then when the guests arrive just pop them in the oven i’ve

Made them the day before too and it saves a lot of time on party day almost got all the potato halves filled this is very strenuous work fortunately i’ve been taking little tastes of the potato mixture all along it has sustained me yeah i thought i’d have a lot of extra

Feeling but it appears i’ve eaten it all okay i’ve got the rest of this shredded cheese and before i put these in the fridge i’m just gonna sprinkle the tops last i checked the kids were supposed to be icing down the drinks so i’m gonna

Stick these in the fridge and go see if they’re doing their work i’m gonna stick the potatoes in the oven get them nice and warm You