Pizza Potatoes

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 200ºC/gas mark 6.

2. Wash the potatoes well. Prick the skin on the potatoes with a fork about six time on each potato.

3. Rub some oil into the skin of each one and sprinkle them with salt.

4. Ask an adult to place the potatoes onto a rack in your oven. They will need over an hour to bake, depending on the size. If you would like to speed things up, you can microwave them for about 5 minutes then bake them for about 40 minutes. You can test if the potatoes are baked through with a skewer. If it goes into the centre of the potato easily it means all of the flesh inside is soft.

5. While your potatoes are baking, carefully slice the spring onion and set it aside.

6. Cut the rashers into little pieces and ask an adult to help you to fry them over a low heat until they begin to look crispy. Set them aside.

7. Carefully grate the cheese.

8. The potatoes are ready to eat when they are roasted, once they cool down. If you wish you can make a cross in the top of one of the potatoes and gently push each side to open up the cross. You can put a knob of butter onto it or some heated baked beans if you like.

9. To make pizza potatoes wait until the baked potatoes have cooled. Ask an adult to help you to cut each one in half along the longest side.

10. Scoop the inside of the potato into a big bowl. Leave a thick enough layer of the cooked potato on the potato skin so you have nice potato skin bowls to put your filling back into. Add the spring onions, rasher pieces and cheese to the potato bowl. Add a little pepper and salt. Stir everything together.

11. Spoon the filling back into your potato skins, packing it in tightly.

12. Bake again for about five minutes until it has heated up and the cheese has melted.