Pulled Pork Loaded Potato – The Keep At Dwel...

This recipe is easy, but so flavorful and filling—one potato is the entire meal! Who doesn’t love a comfortable, pillowy baked potato with melted butter and gooey cheddar cheese? We’ve given your fundamental baked potato an improve, loading it with tender, smoky pulled pork.

Serve it with a Classic Caesar Salad or a summer season favourite, our Strawberry Spinach Salad.

Love a pulled pork sandwich? Neglect the bun and use a potato! There are such a lot of nice ways in which you need to use leftover pulled pork and that is positively one among them. When you’re pressed for time, decide up some store-bought pulled pork and make your self a sandwich one evening, some nachos the subsequent, and don’t neglect this flavorful and filling loaded potato, good for a busy, weeknight meal.

Ingredient Notes

• Potatoes: Select 4 medium-sized recent russet potatoes which can be all roughly the identical dimension.
• Olive Oil: You need to use any impartial cooking oil like avocado or vegetable oil as nicely.
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese: Freshly shredded melts higher than pre-shredded cheese, which accommodates components to forestall clumping.
• Pulled Pork: Use leftover, selfmade pulled pork or store-bought.
• Barbecue Sauce: We did a blind taste check and Kraft got here out on prime! When you’re feeling formidable, attempt our homemade sauce!
• Bitter Cream: Plain Greek yogurt can be utilized in its place. It’s comparable in taste and consistency, and sometimes decrease in energy and fats.
• Inexperienced Onions: You’ll be able to substitute with chives for the same but milder onion taste.

Pulled Pork

Undecided which pulled pork to make use of? We love our Slow Cooker Honey-Chipotle Pulled Pork, Kalua Pork, and even Pulled Ham. You can even maintain it easy and use store-bought pulled pork!

Potato Choices

You need to use different varieties of potatoes corresponding to candy potatoes, Yukon gold, or pink potatoes. Nevertheless, take into account that various kinds of potatoes have totally different textures and are available in several sizes.

A Yukon gold or pink potato will likely be considerably smaller than a russet potato however completely works and will even be used to remodel this dish into an appetizer. Candy potatoes are extra comparable in dimension.

Microwave Choice

You’ll be able to all the time use a microwave to prepare dinner the potatoes. Poke holes within the potatoes as indicated, rub with oil and salt, and microwave on excessive for five minutes. Flip over, then microwave for an additional 5 minutes. They’re completed when a fork simply goes into the flesh.