Jacket Potato

Baked Potato is known as Jacket Potato in UK.
It has a very soft and tender interior and a crispy skin. The outer crispy skin is like a jacket for the soft interior and hence the name, Jacket Potato.

                                             

Ingredients:
2 large potatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
Rock salt

Preparation:

• Pre-heat the oven at 210 deg cel. 
• Wash the potatoes very well and dry them by rubbing against a dry and rough cloth. Prick all over using a fork or a knife.
• Apply oil all over the potato and rub rock salt on its skin.
• Keep aside for 15min.
• Then bake these potatoes in oven for 1.5 to 2 hours till the interior is cooked and the skin has become crispy.
• Remove from the oven and make a slit lengthwise. You may also put two more slits perpendicular to this slit. Then press the potato inwards from the two ends of the lengthwise slit so that the soft interior spurts out. Then using a spoon or a fork, stuff it back into the potato and make some room for extra stuffing. You may add your choice of stuffing.
• Serve hot. Make sure that once potatoes are removed from oven, all other activities are performed quickly as the skin will lose its crispness and soon become soggy.  

Stuffing: 

• You may add cheese or combination of 2 or more cheese and make the potatoes again so that the cheese melts.
• Baked beans with some cheese also will taste good.
• You may use mayonnaise with some herbs or cheese with herbs.
• Butter and garlic powder
• Garlic (finely chopped) and cheese
• Noodles
• Some exotic vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce
•  Chicken or ham with herbs

      etc.

( I have used butter and garlic as a stuffing in first picture. And in second picture, I used fresh thyme and some onion powder)