Monday, December 24, 2012

Bacon-Cheese Potato skin Crispers, the ultimate splurge for a low calorie snack.



This is the ultimate splurge and it only contains an estimated 160 calories per serving. It is absolutely delicious and though it takes time it will seem like a breeze once you've tasted the results.

-What you'll need:

-Mexican style shredded cheese or vegan alternative
-Kath's Potato Crisper spice blend (Brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, everyday seasoning, smoked paprika, red pepper flakes)
-Olive oil spray
-Turkey bacon or Tofurky bacon
-1 potato for two servings, and 2 potatoes for 4, and so on depending on amount of people.

Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Take potato and scrub off any impurities while washing it under the tap, then place on cutting board and stab it various times (carefully-you can cut yourself easily while doing this), then spray a baking pan with olive oil, spray the potato with olive oil-rub it into the potato paying attention to the places you stabbed, and place on baking pan. When oven is heated, place in oven and set timer to 40-45 minutes. Times will vary oven to oven.

While the potato is baking, spray a skillet with olive oil, heat it on med-high heat and fry up two pieces of turkey bacon or alternative to desired crispiness. Once done with that, mix up Kath's potato Crisper blend by taking about 3 or 4 pinches of brown sugar in a bowl, adding a couple dashes of garlic powder and onion powder, a grind of everyday spice, a dash of smoked paprika and a dash of red pepper flakes. Mix it up with a spoon.

Once baked, take out the potato, set the oven to 450 degrees, and let the potato cool just enough so that you can cut it in half lengthwise, once separated, scoop out the middle of the potato halves leaving enough potato around the skin so that it will hold up, set aside the insides of the potato for another use. Spray olive oil on the inside of the skins, sprinkle the spice blend on it, then sprinkle on desired amount of cheese. Get the bacon strips, break them up into little pieces-or just tear them in half like I did and put them over the cheese layer, add one last sprinkle of cheese and when the oven is heated stick them in for another 5-7 minutes.

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