This is a perfect dish for Halloween. Have everyone sit in a circle with one potato. Play some music and pass it round. When the music stops the child holding the potato must step out of the circle. Continue until you have one person left. Award a ghoulish prize.
Ingredients
- 4 large baking potatoes, such as Cara, Maris Piper or King Edward
- Olive oil
- 40g butter
- 150g soured cream
- Handful chopped fresh chives
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan200°C/gas 7.
- Scrub the potatoes then dry with a clean
- tea-towel. Prick them all over with a fork (so they don’t split in the oven), then rub with a little oil and sea salt (this will make them golden and crispy). Put them directly on the top shelf of the oven and cook for 11/4 hours, or until crisp and tender. Remove and place on a board.
- Make a cross in each potato and ease open. Put in a serving dish and top each with butter and soured cream. Season and serve sprinkled with chives. Or try one of these variations.
- Ham, cheese and mustard – mix 200g grated Cheddar, 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard and 4 slices chopped ham. Spoon into cooked and halved potatoes and grill to melt the cheese.
- Spicy coleslaw and prawns – mix 200g coleslaw, 100g cooked and peeled prawns and 1 deseeded and chopped chilli. Spoon into the cooked potatoes.
- Mushroom, crème fraîche and spinach – fry
- 200g sliced mushrooms in a little oil. Stir in
- 200ml crème fraîche and simmer for 10 minutes. Add 2 good handfuls fresh spinach and cook until wilted. Season and add a large pinch of paprika. Spoon into the cooked potatoes.
Nutritional info
Per serving: 341kcals, 18.9g fat (10.3g saturated),
5.8g protein, 39.2g carbs, 2.8g sugar, 1g salt.