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Stuffed potatoes are a great idea for a quick, simple and at the same time tasty and filling dinner. You will need only a few ingredients and in a short while there will be a great dish on the table that will charm the whole family. The quantities of ingredients are enough for 6 servings.
- 3 medium potatoes
- 200 g ground meat
- 200 g grated cheese
- 200 ml milk
- 3 slices of bacon
- 3–4 tablespoons of tomato sauce
- 20 g wheat flour
- Herbs for seasoning
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Oil for frying
How to prepare the potatoes?
Wash the potatoes thoroughly and cook them in their skins. Put the ground meat into a hot pan with a little oil. Once it breaks up, season it with pepper and salt. Chop the bacon finely, add it to the meat and simmer for a short while. Cut the cooked potatoes lengthwise in half and scoop them out, leaving about a half-centimeter layer of flesh under the skin.
Mix the meat with the wheat flour. Then add the milk and, stirring constantly, cook a little longer until you get a thick sauce. Mash the potato flesh that you previously scooped out with a fork and also add it to the meat sauce. Mix everything carefully. Add most of the cheese (leave a little for sprinkling later), salt to taste and mix again.
Bake the stuffed potatoes
Fill the prepared potatoes with the meat mixture. Do not skimp on the filling; it should form a little mound on the potatoes. Arrange them in a baking dish and sprinkle with herbs and the remaining cheese. Preheat the oven to the highest possible temperature, put the baking dish with the potatoes in it and bake until the cheese on the surface melts.
If you enjoyed the recipe, you can try other fillings as well. For example, add vegetables, garlic or bacon to the ground meat. Similarly, you can swap the potatoes for sweet potatoes and prepare a filling from spring onions, arugula, sour cream, avocado and hard grated cheese. In such a case the sweet potatoes are baked before being filled with the prepared mixture.
