Baked Potatoes with Sour Cream, Chives and Bacon

Name: Baked Potatoes with Sour Cream, Chives and Bacon
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons sour cream; coarse sea salt and pepper; 100 g (4 oz) cubes of pancetta or bacon; handful of chopped chives; 4 baking potatoes

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes

Published 2005

About

To guarantee a crisp-skinned and fluffy-textured baked potato, a floury rather than starchy variety of potato is the best choice. Should you prefer the skins to be softer, wrap the potatoes in foil.

Ingredients

4 baking potatoes
coarse sea salt and pepper
100 g (4 oz

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish
Starter
Gluten-free
England

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/gas 7. Prick the potatoes to release the steam created during baking. Scatter sea salt on a baking tray to prevent the skins from burning, place the potatoes on the sea salt and