American

Microwave Loaded Baked Potato

Name: Microwave Loaded Baked Potato
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 russet potatoes; 1 cup shredded cheddar; 1/3 cup real bacon bits; 1/2 cup sour cream; 2 tbsp butter; 3 scallions; 1/2 tsp salt

Carol Jean @grandma_carolj

Microwave Loaded Baked Potato is American 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.

15 min Easy Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 russet potatoes
1 cup shredded cheddar
1/3 cup real bacon bits
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tbsp butter
3 scallions
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Pierce the potatoes all over with a fork.
Microwave on high until tender when pierced, about 10 to 12 minutes, turning once.
Split each potato and fluff the inside with a fork.
Top with butter, cheddar, bacon bits, sour cream, scallions, and salt and serve.

Watch how to cook Microwave Loaded Baked Potato

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

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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 Microwave Loaded Baked Potato, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 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. Microwave Loaded Baked Potato carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Microwave Loaded Baked Potato
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
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: 490 kcal
Protein: 15 g
Carbs: 56 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 740 mg
Saturated fat: 14 g

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

When to cook it

Microwave Loaded Baked Potato takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.