Hasselback Potatoes

Hasselback Potato

These potatoes are are awesome and look so pretty. The options are endless. Choose your herbs and mix on, go with whatever toppings strike your fancy. I will admit that I had a bit of a hard time, cutting the slits in the potato and making sure it didn't come apart. I've seen some tips that included holding a wooden spoon next to the potato, not under it when cutting, but the rest wasn't clear, so if anyone has any tips on how to cut it and keep it looking nice. Please share. Another tip, I saw included rinsing the potato under cold water to help it fan out. This possibly was helpful. Not sure though.

Thinly slice scrubbed potatoes making sure not to cut all the way through. I kept mine simple and brushed olive oil onto all the exposed potato and then sprinkled on salt. Bake at 350 for 1 hr.

Scrubbed Potato

Bit hard to see, but there's narrow slits in the potato,
 left side looks thick, but has multiple thin slits

After rinsing under cold water and putting on Olive oil and salt

All Baked Crispy and Toothsome

I added some cheese when it came out and the heat of the potato melted it. Yep, that's how you do it, when you don't want overdone cheese.

Scrambled Eggs Potato Boats

source: Google Images

Mine look way more appetizing, and don't last long enough to get a picture

Bake your potatoes, put in the oven @350 for 1 hour.
In the meantime saute or caramelize onions. If you want you can put in other vegetables, I added red pepper, and mushrooms to the mix.

Beat eggs, you can add milk, and spices of your choosing. You can add the vegetables into the eggs, or you can mix it with the potatoes you're going to scoop out, or do both.

When the potatoes are ready, slice them lengthwise, so you end up with 2 long halves. This is also the point at which you raise the temperature of the oven to 400. Scoop out the potato from the middles creating a bowl in each half.

Pour the egg mixture into the potatoes. If it doesn't all fit into the potatoes, you can butter & bake it in a square pan or muffin pans without liners. You can also just use more potatoes.

Shortcut: Bake your potatoes using sensor cook in the microwave, just make sure you don't make an x make a slit on the side you're going to be cutting it on.