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SPAM® Potato Skins

Delicious potato skins filled with creamy mashed potato and topped with crispy SPAM® pieces and melted mozzarella cheese.
Active Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 3 (6 skins total)

INGREDIENTS

  • 200 g SPAM® Chopped Pork and Ham - 1 small can
  • 3 medium to large baking potatoes
  • 1 large shallot
  • 50 g spinach
  • 150 ml sour cream - 1 small pot
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 25 g grated mozzarella cheese
  • Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Pre-heat your oven to 200ºC/180ºC fan.
  • Use a fork to pierce a few holes in each potato. Bake the potatoes for around an hour until they feel soft when pierced with a fork.
  • While the potatoes are baking, prepare the filling. Finely chop the shallot and cut the SPAM® into small cubes (about ½cm wide).
  • Heat a frying pan over a medium/high heat and once hot add the SPAM® cubes. Fry them for 4-5 minutes, moving them around so that they brown evenly. Remove them from the pan and set aside to use later.
  • Turn down the heat under the pan a little and add the chopped shallot, fry for a minute and then add the spinach. Fry for a couple more minutes until the spinach has wilted, keeping the shallots and spinach moving to prevent them from burning.
  • Once the potatoes are soft in the centre remove them from the oven. Carefully (as they're really hot) cut them in half and scrape out the insides, leaving a thin layer of potato on each skin.
  • Brush the potato skins with olive oil and return them to the oven for 5 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, mash the scooped out potato and mix in the sour cream, spinach and shallot.
  • Once the potato skins have been in the oven for 5 minutes, remove them and then fill each one with the potato/sour cream/spinach/shallot mixture. Top each one with the cubes of SPAM® and then sprinkle over the mozzarella cheese.
  • Return the potato skins to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
  • Serve - I served mine with an extra drizzle of sour cream and sprinkled with finely chopped chives.

NOTES

I prefer my potatoes baked in the oven. You can also cook them in the microwave on high for 10-15 minutes which will cut the total time to make this dish by around 45 minutes.
The nutritional information provided excludes any additional salt added during cooking.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

Serving: 1portion (2 skins) | Calories: 284kcal | Carbohydrates: 16.6g | Protein: 7.5g | Fat: 20.2g | Saturated Fat: 7.8g | Sodium: 520mg | Fiber: 1.1g | Sugar: 1.4g

Any nutritional information provided is the estimated nutritional information per serving. Please refer to my guide to Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen nutritional information if you would like to learn more about how this is calculated.


Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: British
Keyword: Party Food
Author: Charlotte Oates