The Ultimate Volcano Potato
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The Ultimate Volcano Potato
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The Ultimate Volcano Potato needs to be on every potato lovers bucket list! With baked potato toppings like these, it's a flavor explosion in every bite!
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Ingredients
- 4-5 large Idaho or Russet potatoes
- 12 (3 per potato) Bacon slice
- 2 cups cheese shredded (more or less to taste)
- ¼ -½ cup Parmesan Cheese grated or shredded (more or less to taste)
- 1 cup sour cream or flavored sour cream based dip more or less to taste
- ½ cup Bacon cooked, crumbled, or, ham, chopped, or ground sausage, cooked more or less to taste, if desired
- hot sauce - to taste optional
- ¼ cup onion diced
- ¼ cup butter more or less to taste
- barbecue sauce
- ¼ cup green onions thinly sliced, for garnish if desired
- salt - to taste
- pepper - to taste
- Toothpicks
- cooking spray
- ¼ cup cream or milk, if needed
Instructions
- Get out and measure your ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prepare a rimmed baking sheet with tinfoil coated in cooking spray. Wash and dry potatoes. Use a fork to poke several holes all over the potato to allow steam to escape while baking.
- Cut a slice off of the fattest end of the potato so that you can stand each potato up on a flat surface easily, without wobbling.
- Cover or coat with olive oil and
- Sprinkle with salt and some pepper. Stand potatoes up. Bake for 50 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender.
- In the meantime, using a small bowl, whisk together sour cream, 2 tablespoons of barbecue sauce (or more or less to taste) and hot sauce (if using) until well combined.
- Once blended, chill in the refrigerator until serving. We prefer to purchase a sour cream based flavored dip and add barbecue sauce or just skip this step and just use store bought. It is totally up to you. Prepare and refrigerate until needed.
- Remove potatoes from the oven when done and allow them to cool until you are able to handle them, usually 5-10 minutes. Do not turn your oven off yet. Slice top off each potato.
- Using a spoon or melon baller carefully scoop out the pulp inside the potato, as deep and as close as you can to the inside edge.
- Place pulp in a medium sized mixing bowl with ¼ cup butter. The butter will melt as the scoops of potato pulp land on it in the mixing bowl. If the potato breaks a little while scraping the inside that is ok. The bacon will keep the potato secure.
- Add cooked, crisp and crumbled bacon.
- Add diced onions, sour cream, meat and cheeses to the potato pulp.
- Blend, ideally with a handheld mixer, until contents are smooth. Taste the potato mixture as you go and adjust amounts and ingredients to taste.
- Dump contents into a re-sealable bag.
- Press potato mixture into one corner.
- Cut corner off with scissors, about a 1 inch long cut. Try not to make the hole too big. Squeeze contents back inside the potato. Try to fill the potato up with as much of the potato mixture as possible.
- Potatoes will pile up on top and overflow and that is ok.
- Wrap each raw slice of bacon around the potato, starting at the bottom, using toothpicks to secure the start and end of each piece as it overlaps.
- Shove toothpicks in your potato about ½ inch deep.
- You should be using 2-3 slices of bacon per potato.
- Return potatoes to prepared sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
- Using a brush add barbecue sauce to each bacon slice, on the sides of the potato. Be generous with the barbecue sauce. Bake for 10 minutes in the oven or until bacon is cooked. Baste the potatoes again with the barbecue sauce while baking. You will be glad you did later!
- Preheat the broiler on high. Press shredded cheese on top of each potato and place potatoes back in the oven to bake or broil until cheese is brown and melted, a few minutes.
- Remove potatoes from oven and drizzle sour cream mixture on top and even drip down the sides if desired! Top with green onions.
- Serve immediately. Enjoy every bite!
Notes
- You can do so many things with a russet potato...the options are almost endless. If you want some other ideas than the volcano potato, check out this link full of mind-blowingly great recipes. I'm sure you won't be disappointed!
Nutrition Information
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Calories
651kcal
(33%)
Carbohydrates
49g
(16%)
Protein
24g
(48%)
Fat
41g
(63%)
Saturated Fat
22g
(110%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
3g
Monounsaturated Fat
12g
Trans Fat
0.3g
Cholesterol
106mg
(35%)
Sodium
743mg
(31%)
Potassium
1182mg
(34%)
Fiber
3g
(12%)
Sugar
3g
(6%)
Vitamin A
1035IU
(21%)
Vitamin C
15mg
(17%)
Calcium
542mg
(54%)
Iron
3mg
(17%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 6Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 651 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 651kcal | 33% |
| Carbohydrates | 49g | 16% |
| Protein | 24g | 48% |
| Fat | 41g | 63% |
| Saturated Fat | 22g | 110% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 3g | 18% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 12g | 60% |
| Trans Fat | 0.3g | 15% |
| Cholesterol | 106mg | 35% |
| Sodium | 743mg | 31% |
| Potassium | 1182mg | 25% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 3g | 6% |
| Vitamin A | 1035IU | 21% |
| Vitamin C | 15mg | 17% |
| Calcium | 542mg | 54% |
| Iron | 3mg | 17% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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