An easy oven Baked Hasselback Potato with Bacon and butter recipe. Delicious potato side dish with herbs for lunch or dinner meals.
Baked Hasselback Potato with Bacon
A different but delicious way to bake potato with just butter and bacon with herbs is this Oven Baked Hasselback potato recipe. Makes a great warm or hot side dish for lunch or dinner meals. Special for Thanksgiving or Christmas lunches, or any special event. You don’t need an excuse to cook this tasty potatoes for any meal for family.
Why are they called Hasselback potatoes?
They come from a restaurant in Sweden so named. They are an elevated way of serving your potato side dish with extra bacon and herbs with butter baked. Very easy to slice and fill with any thing you would love and baked or grilled for meals.
How to cut Hasselback potatoes easily?
Wash and clean the whole potatoes, place a chop stick next to the potato at the bottom. With a sharp knife slice the potatoes until the knife touches the chop stick so they do not get cut totally through. Or use the handle of your wooden spoon, but have one each side, or judge the cut.
What all can you put in a baked Hasselback potato?
- salted butter
- salt and pepper
- garlic
- herbs, chives, parsley, thyme, rosemary
- bacon
- grated cheese
- sour cream
- feta
- sauté mushroom
Ingredients
- potatoes
- butter
- bacon
- parsley and rosemary
- salt and pepper
- garlic
- olive oil
For all the amounts suggested and the full instructions get the recipe at the bottom of the post, its attached.
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medium potatoes
butter
bacon in small pieces
parsley and rosemary
How To
Such an easy and yet delicious recipe to bake for a meal, that elevates your potato. It add so much flavor with the butter and bacon with herbs added in the slices of the whole potato.
Wash and slice the potato according to the recipe attached.
Add the butter and salt and pepper, with garlic into slices.
The bacon pieces and parsley can be added to every other slice.
Drizzle with oils and place on the baking sheet in a preheated oven and bake until done.
Serve these tasty and most incredible Hasselback potatoes filled with bacon and butter with herbs for a hot side dish, for any meal.
These oven baked potatoes go well for family meals for Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other lunch or dinner you would love to elevate.
Freezing ideas
They freeze well as left overs sealed and wrapped well. If you want to make some ahead then bake until almost done and leave about ten minutes off the baking time. Wrap and seal and freeze for later. They reheat well in the oven for 15-20 minutes to finish the cooking, serve hot.
Recommendations
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PrintBaked Hasselback Potato with Bacon
An easy oven Baked Hasselback Potato with Bacon and butter recipe. Delicious potato side dish with herbs for lunch or dinner meals.
- Prep Time: 25 min
- Cook Time: 30-40 min.
- Total Time: 65 min
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
- 4 medium potato with skins on
- 2 rashers of cooked bacon pieces
- 100 g of butter Cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup of parsley leaves broken
- some rosemary leaves
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cloves of crushed Garlic or 1 teaspoon of garlic flakes or powder
- 1/4 cup of olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 deg. C (400 deg, F)
- Wash the whole potato first and leave the skin on.
- Cook the bacon cut into inch size pieces. Do not cook the bacon crispy as it will crisp when baked with the potato.
- Slice narrow slices almost through the potato but not all the way. Place a chop stick size stick, or other, on each side of the potato so that your knife does not slice totally through the potato.
- Add some small pieces of butter in all the slices and insert in every other potato slice a piece of cooked bacon and then parsley leaves in the empty slices. Mix the garlic and salt and pepper and then sprinkle some into the slices of the potato to bake. Drizzle the potato with a little olive oil on the skin.
- On a baking tray lightly sprinkle some olive oil or spray and cook. So the potato does not stick. Then place the Hasselback potato on the baking sheet and bake.
- Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes until the potato feels and tests cooked. Tender to a knife.
- The times will differ according to the size of the potato baked.
Notes
- Hasselback potatoes freeze well. Wrap up left overs or make some in advance and freeze. Reheat in the oven for about 20 minutes until they are cooked through.
- To make in bulk or ahead, cook the Hasselback potatoes almost until done but leave about 10 minutes then cool and store in the freezer, sealed.
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