Phyllis Good's Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes White & Sweet
Try this a-peeling (get it!) baked potato recipe from Phyllis Good's cookbook Stock The Pot! They're handy any time, but especially delicious in the summer with lots of delicious toppings!
Ingredients
- 6 white baking potatoes or sweet potatoes or a combination of both
- unsalted butter
Instructions
- Grease the interior of the slow cooker crock with butter or nonstick cooking spray.
- Wash and dry the potatoes. Prick each one a few times with a sharp-tined fork.
- Rub each one with butter. Stack them in the prepared crock.
- Cover. Cook the potatoes on Low 4 1⁄2 to 6 hours, or until they’re soft in the center but not mushy. Start checking after they’ve been cooking for 4 hours, and then again every 15 minutes until done. (The cook time can vary, depending on how hot your cooker is, the size of the potatoes, and the variety you’re using.)
Notes
This recipe was excerpted from Stock the Crock by Phyllis Good. Copyright © 2017 Oxmoor House. Reprinted with permission from Time Inc. Books, a division of Time Inc. New York, NY. All rights reserved. Photographer: Victor Protasio, Food Stylist: Katelyn Hardwick, Prop Stylist: Thom Driver
Tips
Substitute oil for the butter Make it Paleo-Friendly
Use sweet potatoes and yams, which are generally considered Paleo-friendly. The debate continues about whether white potatoes fit in a Paleo diet. Go with advice you trust. Make it for Two
Use a 4-quart slow cooker and 2 to 4 medium-size white baking potatoes or sweet potatoes and unsalted butter. Follow the directions in the recipe, but begin checking to see if the potatoes are finished after they’ve cooked for 3 hours. If they’re not, check again every 15 minutes until done.
- Create a potato bar with this recipe. Super-easy and no need to heat up the oven.
- If you want to serve BIG potatoes, cook them an hour or so longer.
- Turn this into mashed potatoes using half sweet potatoes and half white potatoes. Cook them together, whole and unpeeled, in the slow cooker. When both varieties are tender, hold them one by one with a hot mitt, scoop the potatoes out of their shells, and then mash the potatoes together.
- The potato skins are super-tender when they’ve been cooked in a slow cooker. It’s a good way to prepare potatoes so that kids (and others) will be more willing to eat the nutritious skins with their extra dose of vitamin C, iron, and potassium.
Substitute oil for the butter Make it Paleo-Friendly
Use sweet potatoes and yams, which are generally considered Paleo-friendly. The debate continues about whether white potatoes fit in a Paleo diet. Go with advice you trust. Make it for Two
Use a 4-quart slow cooker and 2 to 4 medium-size white baking potatoes or sweet potatoes and unsalted butter. Follow the directions in the recipe, but begin checking to see if the potatoes are finished after they’ve cooked for 3 hours. If they’re not, check again every 15 minutes until done.
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