Guest Recipe: Grant’s Jalapeño Popper Potato Skins
Servings: 6
Calories: 351kcal
Ingredients
- 1000 g medium white potatoes for roasting / baking
- 20 g olive oil
- 1 large pinch salt optional
- 100 g vintage cheddar cubed
- 1 jalapeno deseeded and chopped for garnish
Pepper Queso Mix
- 1 brown onion peeled, quartered
- 1 large red chilli deseeded for mild
- 1 jalapeno deseeded for mild
- 60 g shortcut bacon diced small
- 125 g cream cheese cubed
- 50 g vintage cheddar cubed
- 50 g mozzarella cubed
- 30 g cream
- 1 large tomato seeds removed
Popper Mince
- 100 g pork mince
- 100 g beef mince
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch white pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- In a plastic bag add potatoes and oil with optional salt and mix thoroughly. Empty onto a large baking tray, ensuring they aren’t touching and bake in hot oven for 75 min (or until fork tender).
- Add vintage cheddar and jalapeño to mixer bowl. Chop for 3 sec/speed 5/MC on. Set aside for topping.
- With 30 mins to go for potatoes - prepare the Popper Queso Mix. Place onion, red chilli and jalapeño in mixer bowl and chop for 5 sec/speed 5/MC on. Scrape mixer bowl down.
- Add bacon and 10 g olive oil and cook for 5 min/steaming temp/speed 1/ MC off.
- Add remaining Popper Queso Mix ingredients and mix for 5 sec/speed 5/ MC on. Cook for 7 min/90℃/speed 2/MC on.
- While cooking brown mince in a frying pan. Add Popper Mince ingredients and mix with a spatula until brown and broken up.
- Add browned mince to Popper Queso Mix in the mixer bowl and mix for 10 sec/reverse/speed 2/MC on.
- Take baked potatoes from oven and when cool enough to handle, halve and using a spoon remove potato flesh and set aside. Spoon in queso mix and sprinkle with cheese and jalapeño.
- Turn oven to grill at 220°C. Grill jalapeño potato poppers for approximately 5 min or until cheese is melted and browning.
Nutrition
Calories: 351kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 519mg | Potassium: 304mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1149IU | Vitamin C: 22mg | Calcium: 257mg | Iron: 1mg
