How to make baked potatoes with bacon?

The baked potatoes are always a good companion for dishes with some type of meat, whether beef, turkey, chicken or fish, potatoes can be prepared baked, stewed, boiled, steamed, fried and in different ways, we show you now how to make baked potatoes with bacon.
Baked Potatoes Recipe
If you want to make this recipe healthier, use olive oil in the baking tin and don't add cheese to the potatoes, you can prepare a creamy mushroom sauce instead.
Nutritional information
- 🍽️ Category: Appetizers
Mexican Kitchen
- 🔪 Preparation: 15 minutes
- 🍲 Cooking: 60 minutes
- 🔥 Calories: 200 kcal
- 👫 Servings: 2 people
Steps to make Recipe in the United States
Ingredients
- Salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- chinese parsley
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 potatoes
- 1/2 cup chopped bacon
- 1/3 cup manchego cheese
- 1/4 cup santa clara cream
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 tablespoon butter
Preparation
- Step 1: Preheat the oven to 180ºC and meanwhile place the potatoes on a cutting board, they must be well washed, cut them into medium pieces or embed a wooden stick in it, bring them to a boil.
- Step 2: Add a little butter and salt to the water, let it cook for about 30 minutes and remove from the water, let it rest.
- Step 3: Make cuts in the potatoes that are small and spread a little butter between them, sprinkle pepper and salt, add bacon in the cuts if it is chopped very small.
- Step 4: Wrap each potato with aluminum foil or take to a can that you can cover completely with it, bake about 10 minutes.
- Step 5: On the other hand, prepare the sauce, adding the leche santa clara with the butter to a pot along with the cheese and cream, stir to integrate and let heat until it thickens a little.
- Step 6: Then you can serve these potatoes with a little sauce and some finely chopped Chinese parsley.
Recommendation
You can bread the potatoes with flour or shred the bacon so that they are in small pieces, pass the potatoes through this ingredient after spreading butter so that the bacon sticks to them.
Fun facts
Potatoes contain starch so they can replace flour if they are cooked and then mashed, to remove the starch you just have to soak the peeled potatoes in salted water before taking them to cook.