In a nutshell, jacket potato is a baked potato stuffed with cheese/salads/chicken etc etc.
From the above description you can well understand that Jacket potato is not a healthy food....but one can always make exception at the end of a long day. It is easy to make , though takes quite some time to bake. I am not entirely sure whether this dish is as favourite in US or Canada or other European countries.
Ingredients are varied depending on what stuffing you fancy.
This is how I usually make it :
Take 1 baking potato , wrap it in an aluminium foil and keep in the preheated oven (200C). It usually takes about 30-40 minutes for a potato to cook thoroughly in an oven. If you are short on time, you can use microwave to cook it. It takes about 7min for one potato to cook in a microwave, but then you will have to sacrifice the crispy crunchy feel of the jacket (peel) .
Grate a block of cheese (prefer the one with factor 3/4 i.e. medium strong).
Chop some tomatoes, onions, cucumber , lettuce for salad.
You can make any side dish e.g. baked vegetables/roasted vegetables/couscous to go with this.
I usually make a new find, i.e. a yogurt sauce . This was invented by one of my close friends , Binnie. For this sauce, take yogurt/curd, add salt, sugar, cumin-coriander powder(dhana-jeera) as per taste. Chop/grind garlic, ginger and chillies together and add to the yogurt. Mix it all together. It is very similar to the Dahi we make for Dahi-Wada.
When the potato is completely cooked, make a cross in it by knife and stuff the cheese so that it melts. Fill your plate with salad, sauce and other side dishes and you are ready to dig into your meal!:)
Bon Appetite!!!
-Rahee
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