Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, baked spuds are a bit of a staple food. You can top them with pretty much anything you want and get a wide variety of different meals - slathered in cheese with beans running down, or topped with a bit of coleslaw
Cooking Time
| Prep |
Cooking |
Total |
| 2 mins |
80 mins |
82 mins |
Ingredients
- 8 large baking potatoes
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
Method
- Heat the oven to 200c
- Stab each potato several times with a fork
- Get the oil onto some kitchen towel and rub over the potatoes' skin
- Place onto a baking tray and put onto the top shelf of the oven
- Bake for 20 mins
- Turn oven down to 190
- Bake for 45mins - 1hr until the skin is crispy and then insides are soft
- Remove from the oven and serve immediately
- serve by cutting a cross into the top, loading with butter, cheese and coleslaw (and/or baked beans)