Stuffed Potatoes

5/21/2013 | Labels: Baked Potatoes, Potatoes

Ok, Back with a bang :)

Though delayed by 3 weeks, I kept my promise to self to update the blog with this new amazing recipe.
As usual, Saturday night dinner plans…
What are u cooking for dinner? Anything special?
OMG! these are enough to think what’s for dinner…

Though, a lazy person who cannot spend more than 1 hour in kitchen, I decided to cook something different this week. More over my niece was around and was pestering to cook potatoes. Bingo… why not make stuffed and baked potatoes..... Niece bhi kush and main bhi kush (Both me and my niece are happy).

Now where do I get the recipe? Like any other religious IT professional of my generation, I googled out.
Got loads of recipes (most were with non-veg stuffing:(). Finally decided to make my version of healthy and veg stuffing.

Though I had enough of potatoes, what are the veggies which could be stuffed? Starting browsing (;) software lingo) my refrigerator for all the veggies. Finally comes out few broccoli florets and a couple of zucchini. That was good enough. Started my elaborate cooking drama.

Ok enough of purana around let me come straight to the recipe.

Ingredients

8-10 medium sized potatoes – OK I know this recipe‘s main ingredient is potatoes :)

1 medium sized head of broccoli (approximately 250 gms)

1 zucchini (I mixed both half yellow and half of green to make this look colorful)

2 tbsp. of butter

Oregano

Salt

Pepper

Fresh rosemary and parsley

¼ cup of Cheese

2-3 tbsp. of milk

How do I proceed?

1. Cook the potatoes with the skin for about one whistle.,If using cooker else boil it in water until half cooked.

2. Let it cool. In meantime chop all the vegetables finely

3. Heat a pan, take some butter, add the chopped veggies and cook till 50% done.

4. Take the potatoes out if still hot, run this below cold water to cool. Cut it in to half.

5. You can marinate the potatoes a bit - In a bowl add 1-2 tsp. of oil, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning(Secret recipe ;)) and mix the potato cup in this and keep aside

6. Scoop out the inner part and keep aside. Once u have scooped out enough of flesh, this should look like the cup

7. Now add the cooked veggies, salt, pepper, oregano to the scooped out potato and mix well. I added bit of milk to get soft consistency.

8. U can also add 1-2 tbsp. spoon of grated cheese to this

9. Now fill the veggies mix into the potatoes and top it up with the grated cheese

10. Keep this in oven safe plate and bake at 180 deg C for about 15-20 minutes. You can increase the time if the potatoes are still raw (trial and error).

11. Once done(hopefully after 20 minutes) you can relish this with garlic bread :)

Trust me this was sooper hit. Not sure about my niece. So far no feedback from that 3 year old. But rest enjoyed :)

Happy baking for now!!!

C u
:)