American
Baked Potato
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Baked Potato is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oven to 425F, scrub the potatoes, and prick each a few times with a fork.
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Rub the skins with olive oil and salt and place directly on the oven rack.
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Bake until the skins are crisp and the centers are tender, about 50 minutes.
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Split each potato open and top with butter before serving.
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Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Baked Potato, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Baked Potato carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Baked Sweet Potato |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 340 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 57 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 600 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Baked Potato takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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