British

Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese

Name: Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 russet potatoes; 20 oz baked beans; 1.5 cups shredded cheddar; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese is British home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

70 min Medium High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 russet potatoes
20 oz baked beans
1.5 cups shredded cheddar
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 400F and prick the potatoes all over with a fork.
Bake directly on the oven rack until the skins are crisp and the centers are soft, about 60 minutes.
Meanwhile heat the baked beans in a small saucepan until hot.
Cut a cross in the top of each potato, squeeze to open, and season with salt and pepper.
Top each potato with butter, a generous spoonful of beans, and a scatter of cheddar, and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Classic British Jacket Potato | Baked Potato Recipe With Butter, Cheese And Baked Beans Play the video

Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

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. Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
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: 590 kcal
Protein: 23 g
Carbs: 80 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 10 g
Sugar: 11 g
Sodium: 1060 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese takes about 70 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.