To bake potatoes in foil you do not need to have a culinary diploma, but many people do not know how to bake potatoes so that it does not turn out to be too dry, too soft, and certainly not burned. Cooking potatoes can be unexpectedly difficult if you do not know how to bake it properly. The answer is the use of foil.
In the following recipes we will tell you how to cook potatoes in foil in the oven.
Potatoes with bacon in foil in the oven
This dish is often called - potatoes in a rustic, cooked in the oven in foil.
Ingredients:
- potatoes of medium size
- bacon salted
- garlic
- salt
- pepper
Preparation
We choose the same tubers, so that it does not turn out that one potato was baked or burned, and the other is still damp. My tubers carefully, preferably with a brush. After that, each potato is cut along into equal halves.
Now proceed to cutting the fat, the number of slices should match the amount of potatoes. Slices are cut into 2 mm thick, but you can also 5 mm, some like to be fatter, and in size they should at least roughly correspond to the cut on the potatoes. Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Further we press garlic and we spread on each half of a potato on own taste. Perch, salt, but do not forget that you need to salt based on how much salted bacon. We put on lard potatoes lard, cover the other half and wrap it in foil, the same we do with the rest of the potatoes. We spread the potatoes on a sheet for baking and we fix in the oven.
Now about the process and understanding how long it takes to bake the potatoes in the foil in the oven.
The potato in the foil in the oven is baked for at least an hour, and during baking, several factors influence: the size, the variety of potatoes and the characteristics of your oven. We advise you to check the availability within one hour of baking. Without unfolding the foil, pierce the potato with a wooden skewer for skewers or with a very narrow sharp knife, if the knife quickly and easily entered the potatoes after the resistance of the foil, the potato is ready, if not, repeat the test after 20-30 minutes.
After the potato has successfully passed the test, carefully, so as not to get burned we get it, unfold the foil and you can start eating.
Potatoes in foil, in oven, stuffed
Baked potatoes in the oven in foil, it's already very tasty, and with the filling - just delicious, and its recipe is pretty simple.
Ingredients:
- potatoes large - 4 pcs .;
- sour cream - 125 g;
- green onions - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- grated Cheddar cheese (or other hard cheese) - 2 cups;
- softened butter - 50 g;
- pieces of bacon (optional)
- salt, pepper, favorite seasonings to taste.
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. We wash the potatoes and wrap it in foil. Bake for 90 minutes, turning halfway one time. After an hour and a half we take out the potatoes from the oven and open the foil, this is the simplest potato recipe in foil in the oven, and we cook with the filling, so we let the tubers cool down for a few minutes. When the potatoes have cooled down and you can take it, without being afraid to burn your hands, cut it in length into equal halves, and let it cool for a few more minutes.
We take a small spoon and choose from the half of the potatoes practically the whole flesh, leaving about 0.5 cm near the rind so that our half is stable and does not fold. The flesh of the potatoes must be put in a large bowl. To potatoes, add butter, sour cream, green onions, 1 glass of cheese and seasoning. With a fork or other improvised remedy, we knead all the ingredients well. Put the mixture back into the potato shells, put the potatoes on a sheet or a dish for baking, on top of each of the halves put the remaining grated cheese. Bake it for 5-10 minutes to warm and melt the cheese, then take it out of the oven.