Baked potatoes in foil - the original recipe for cooking ordinary potatoes with ham or bacon. It would seem that it can be easier to potatoes and pork, and how to prepare an elegant dish from these ordinary products? The secret is simple - a large potato tuber, delicious ham or smoked pork belly, spicy herbs - rosemary and oregano, a small piece of parchment and foil. You will also need two sticks of the same thickness, preferably wooden, for example, Chinese chopsticks. I specify the ingredients at the rate of one person, if you cook for a large company, then increase the number of potatoes and other ingredients by the number of suffering mouths.
- Cooking time: 60 minutes
- Servings: 1
Ingredients for Baked Potato-Harmonic Potatoes with Ham
- 1 large potato (about 150 g);
- 45 grams of fat ham;
- 2 g smoked paprika;
- sprig of rosemary;
- pinch oregano;
- 10 ml of extra virgin olive oil;
- 15 g of hard cream cheese;
- 2 grams of coarse sea salt.
Method of cooking baked potato-accordion with ham
Clean the potatoes, on the one hand, cut, so that the lower part is flat.
We put two sticks on a flat board, between them we place the potato flat side down. We take a sharp knife, cut it strictly perpendicular to the surface, make cuts in increments of about 5 millimeters.
The knife will cut the potatoes only to the sticks, the lower part will remain intact, and the incised petals will be on top.
Take the cooled fat ham, preferably hold it in the freezer for about half an hour before cooking. We cut the ham very thin, the slices should be no more than two millimeters thick.
We put slices of ham between slices of potato - our potato begins to resemble an open harmonica.
We take a small sheet of waxed parchment, put the potatoes with ham, pour olive oil of the first cold press.
Next, add the seasonings and spices - sprinkle with large sea salt, ground smoked paprika, oregano and put a small sprig of rosemary.
Lift the edges of the parchment, fold the two wide edges together, then roll up the narrow edges on the sides with a cord like candy.
Food foil folded in two layers. Wrap our potato “candy” in foil tightly.
Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius. We bake potatoes for about 40 minutes, depending on the size, and most importantly - on the thickness of the tuber. In the meantime, cut the hard cream cheese into thin slices.
Then we take out almost finished potatoes (we do not turn off the oven), unwrap the package, put cheese cubes on slices of potatoes. We put the opened package in a hot oven, bake for a few minutes until golden brown.
As soon as the potatoes redden, and it will take 4-7 minutes, we take it out of the oven and serve it hot and piping hot.
Tip: To make several portions, cut a wide piece of foil, then parchment, put everything on a baking sheet at once, put the potatoes-accordion, pack the potatoes first in a wide envelope of parchment tightly, then cover it with foil.
Baked potato-harmonica with ham is ready. Enjoy your meal!
