Jacket Potato
Makes / serves: 4 portions
Draft recipe
Method
- Scrub and prick potatoes, rub with oil and salt.
- Bake at 200°C fan for 60–90 minutes until skins crisp and centres soft.
- Split and fluff with butter.
- Add chosen hot or cold filling; heat beans or chilli thoroughly before serving.
Recipe details
Vegetarian base; tag tuna or beef variations separately.
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Components and suggested sides, shown with their own batch quantities.
Chilli Con Carne
6–8 portions. Use the amount specified in the main recipe.
- 1kg beef mince.
- 1 white onion.
- 1 red pepper.
- 3 garlic cloves.
- mild chilli-con-carne seasoning sachet, to taste.
- 2 tbsp tomato purée.
- 500g passata.
- 400g tinned tomatoes.
- 300ml beef stock.
- 400g tin kidney beans, drained.
- salt and pepper.
- Brown mince in batches.
- Soften diced onion and pepper in the pan, add garlic and a modest amount of seasoning, then purée.
- Return beef, add passata, tomatoes and stock.
- Simmer gently 60–90 minutes until thick, adding beans for final 20 minutes.
- Taste before adding more seasoning or salt.