Saturday, October 3, 2015

Baked Potatoes Stuffed with Meat, Mexican Style


I was looking for something a little different; namely a Mexican inspired dish. I found a recipe for fried potatoes stuffed with meat. I didn't want to fry anything. Then I thought, what if I combined it with a baked potato. 

Ingredients:

8 White Potatoes
1 Lb Ground Beef
12 oz Tomato Paste
1/2 Onion
1/2 Green Pepper
1 Clove Garlic
Olive Oil
Sea Salt
Pepper
Cumin
Shredded Cheese
Siracha
Buffalo Sauce

Preheat the oven to 450. Wash the potatoes. Drizzle with olive oil and seas salt. Baked for 25 minutes. 

Chop the onion, green pepper and garlic. 

In a skillet, heat olive oil.  Add the onion, green pepper and garlic. Cook at medium. Cook until the onion is translucent. 



Season the ground beef with cumin, salt and pepper. Add the skillet. Mix with onions, peppers and garlic. Cook until brown.



Turn heat to low medium. Add tomato paste. Splash in sirach and Buffalo sauce for heat. 



Remove potatoes from oven. Let cool a bit. Cut in half. Scoop out middle. Add the meat mix. 

The next thing I did was to use a toaster oven. I preheated it to 400. Turned it to broil. I broiled the potatoes filled with the meat mixture for ten minutes. Sprinkled shredded cheese on top. Then broiled another three minutes. 



Salt and pepper for taste!

The innards of the potatoes, I mixed with the leftover of the meat mixture to make a hash.