4.3.4 Cheesy Smashed Baked Potatoes
Serves: 6
Oven Temperature: 200 ° C
Time in oven/on stove: 30 min
Time to actively work on it: 40 min
Ingredients
| Amount | Ingredient | Preparation |
| 1 | kg | | potatoes | washed |
| 40 | g | | butter |
| 250 | ml | (1 cup) | milk |
| 1 | tbsp | | flour |
| 120 | g | (1 cup) | cheddar | coarsely grated |
| 2 | tsp | | Dijon mustard |
| 1/2 | tsp | | smoked paprika |
| 2 | tbsp | | chives | finely chopped |
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Instructions
- Place potatoes on a baking try and drizzle with olive oil. Season
with salt and pepper.
- Roast for 30 min.
- In the meantime melt butter in saucepan over medium heat.
- Add flour and cook stirring for 1 min, then remove from heat.
- Add milk and whisk until well combined. Cook stirring until sauce
boils. Remove from heat.
- Add half the cheddar while stirring.
- Add mustard, paprika, and chives and season with salt and pepper.
- Cut a small cross in the top of each potato. Gently press on the
top of the potato to slightly open up.
- Spoon the sauce into the cuts and sprinkle with the remaining
cheddar.
- Bake until golden brown. (around 5 min)