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This dish you are going to love. Its for advanced cook but easy to follow. Stuffed potatoes

Ingredients

• For the stuffing
• 500g ground beef
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 tablespoons Seven Spice
• Salt
• 1 teaspoon Nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon Cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons Pine Nuts
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• For the Potatoes
• 1 bag Yukon Gold or Butter Potatoes (about 12-15 potatoes)
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• Salt, to taste
• 2 cloves Garlic, minced
• 3 cups tomato sauce + 1 cup water
• 1 tablespoon Seven Spice
• 1 cube Maggi

Instructions

1. For the Stuffing
2. In a large skillet heat 1 tablespoon olive oil
3. Sauté the onions until translucent
4. Add the ground beef and cook until browned
5. Season with seven spice, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg
6. Remove from heat
7. Heat one tablespoon oil and cook the pine nuts until lightly browned. Keep an eye on them! Pine nuts fry quickly.
8. Remove from oil onto a blotter.
9. For the Potatoes. Peel and wash the potatoes.
10. Using a thin vegetable corer, carve out the middle portion of the potatoes making sure not to puncture the potatoes
11. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat
12. Once hot, place the potatoes in the oil and fry on all sides until a light golden brown
13. Remove and place on paper towels to absorb additional oil
14. Once the potatoes have cooled, stuff the potatoes with the ground beef mixture leaving 1/8 inch space from the top
15. Place in a single layer in a baking tray
16. Use 1 tablespoon olive oil to saute garlic
17. Add tomato sauce and water
18. Bring to a boil, add in seven spice and Maggi, then turn heat off
19. Pour the tomato sauce over the potatoes
20. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 50 minutes on 375 F
21. When i make this nothing left everyone wants seconds. Generally 2 to a dish

 

[Luckyus]

( Apologies Babybird, I just couldn"t help myself ).
Page 69 in the Irish recipe book 101 ways to cook a potato?.

 

[DLHM]

Looks delicious but a lot of work for a lazy cook such as myself.