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Baked Potato with Cottage Cheese and Chives

A properly baked potato, forked open and filled with cottage cheese rather than butter and cheese. Plain in the good way.

Baked Potato with Cottage Cheese and Chives. A properly baked potato, forked open and filled with cottage cheese rather than butter and cheese. Plain in the good way.
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Prep 5 minCook 65 minServes 2

Ingredients

Why metric?

Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 2 large baking potatoes (550 g)
  • 300 g cottage cheese
  • 10 g chives, snipped
  • 10 ml extra-virgin olive oil (9 g)
  • 150 g carrot, cut into sticks, to serve
  • 1 g iodised table salt
  • Ground black pepper, to taste
  • 2 slices wholegrain bread (80 g), to serve

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200C/400F. Prick the potatoes all over with a fork, rub them with the oil and set them straight on the oven shelf.
  2. Bake 60-70 minutes. They are done when the skin is dry and papery and a skewer slides to the centre and back out with no resistance at all; any drag means the middle is still waxy.
  3. Split them lengthways, push the ends towards each other to open the flesh, and fork the inside about so it is fluffy rather than a solid block.
  4. Fill with the cottage cheese, season, and scatter the chives over. Toast the bread and serve it alongside with the carrot sticks. Serve the carrot sticks alongside.

Safety and storage

Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C

Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.

Where these temperatures come from