Foil Baked Potatoes With Bacon: A Step By Step Recipe

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

A cheap way to feed a dear man: potatoes baked with lard

Hello dear readers and subscribers of our blog "Do it yourself with us". Sometimes it happens, you do what you love: you sit down at the sewing machine, you take knitting needles, or maybe you just got an interesting book and you don't want to come off. And the time for dinner is coming and it's time to get up to the stove and prepare food. And then you regret that you do not have a magic wand, wave and dinner is ready! On this score, I have one wonderful recipe - baked potatoes in the oven.

A real lifesaver, ten minutes of your personal time, and the oven will do the rest for you. There are different ways to cook potatoes in the oven: simply baked in a jacket on a baking sheet, baked potatoes in the oven in foil, and I suggest cooking baked potatoes with lard.

Ingredients for potatoes in the oven

For this we need:

• medium-sized tubers 5-6 pcs., but in general, if you wish, you can do more:);
• salted lard (I used lard with pepper);
• salt - a pinch;
• vegetable oil;
• seasoning for potatoes (optional);
• foil;
• baking sheet.

Yes, we are now easily preparing potatoes and dishes with his participation. But more than three hundred years ago, Russia did not even know such a root crop. And wow, she lived fine. Don't you think we're distracted? Me too. So get down to business! And to broaden my horizons, I wrote a few more interesting facts from the life and history of potatoes below. Be sure to read!

Cooking recipe: potatoes baked in the oven in foil with lard

1. Peel the potatoes and make 4-5 cuts, but do not cut them through.
2. Put pieces of bacon in the cuts and add a little salt on top. If you are a fan of spices and seasonings, you can sprinkle the top with special potato seasoning.
3. Put on foil, pour over with vegetable oil, cover with foil on top.

4. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 40 minutes. Watch when ready. It is possible to increase the baking time to an hour or more, it all depends on the size of the tubers.

   

5. Put the prepared baked potatoes with bacon on a dish, sprinkle with finely chopped dill and serve hot.

   

Instead of lard, you can use smoked brisket, then the taste will be softer. I have for this dish "baked potatoes in the oven", I found a couple of pieces of fried beef chop. Such potatoes can be poured with mustard oil or served with sour cream. I don't know about you, but my husband squeaked with pleasure!

I have many such help-out recipes. I will gradually publish them on our website, where we do everything together and easily. Remember how recently we baked pies together in the oven ? I really liked it!

Interesting facts from the history of the potato

And at the end, as promised, a few interesting facts from the history of this vegetable:

• Potatoes as a culture began to be cultivated 14 thousand years ago. The Indians of South America were the first to do this. And at first not in an organized way, but through the exploitation of wild thickets.
• When the potato appeared in Russia, even a little later, in the middle of the 18th century, during its forced distribution throughout the country, the population did not accept the new culture. This was due to the frequent consumption of not root crops, but the fruits that grow on the potato bush itself, which, accordingly, led to many poisonings. Hard to imagine, right? But now potatoes are called " second bread ".
• In modern times, even vodka is made from potatoes. This vodka is very popular with Icelanders.
• Potatoes are the first vegetable grown in space. This was done on the Columbia shuttle in 1995.
• Belgians are proud of their potato museum. The museum has thousands of exhibits, one of which is Van Gogh's painting "The Potato Eaters".

Now you know that potatoes baked in the oven in foil are a cheap way to feed a dear man. I hope my recipe will help you out one day. I look forward to your comments and feedback on the recipe.