How to Cook Jacket Potatoes

Doesn’t the smell of hot jacket potatoes drive you crazy? It is the perfect delicacy for veggies and can be taken with any other dish. Learning how to cook jacket potatoes is fairly easy. It can be done on a day when you are tired and not in the mood to prepare anything which is time-consuming. Jacket potatoes are very healthy also as they retain all the vitamins which would otherwise have been lost while peeling the skin. Not only are they healthy but they are also very tasty if prepared carefully. Let us learn how to cook jacket potatoes so that we can do it all the while in our homes.

• You obviously need potatoes to cook the dish. Besides potatoes, you also need some olive oil and salt for taste. The potatoes selected need to be of good variety. You can choose from among Maris Piper and Desiree varieties. The taste of the dish depends to a large extent on the quality of the potatoes.
  
  
• It is important to preheat the oven to about 375 degrees Fahrenheit before you get started on cooking the potatoes.
  
  
• Wash the potatoes well so that it does not have any dust or dirt sticking to them. You can even scrub them well and give them a good rub with a kitchen towel so that they are well dried.
  
  
• The olive oil is the next ingredient to be used. You can rub the outside of the potatoes with olive oil and salt. This will help the potatoes to cook faster and also get a brownish color. The jacket potatoes will both look better and taste better.
  
  
• Get some skewers and suspend the potatoes on these skewers. You can do this carefully so that you don’t crush the potatoes or cause them to crack open. The skewers should also be of the appropriate size. Usually you can use the skewers which are used for making kebabs. The skewers should preferably be made of metal so that the heat is conducted to the center quickly and the insides also cook evenly and faster.
  
  
• Place a shelf in the middle of the oven and then arrange the skewers neatly on it. It will take quite a long time for the potatoes to be baked. After about 2 hours or so, you can observe that the skins turn crispy and brown.
  
  
• After all the potatoes turn crispy, you can take out the skewers carefully and place them on a tray. You can then slit the potatoes in two halves and make it fluffy with a fork. The potatoes can still be made tastier by sprinkling some olive oil again with some salt and pepper.
  
  
• Close your eyes and enjoy this dish along with a salad. It does not have many calories and is good for your health.






You can now teach your friends how to cook jacket potatoes so that they too can have the pleasure of making and relishing this dish.

Article originated from TipDeck.com.