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

This recipe is easy, but so flavorful and filling—one potato is the entire meal! Who doesn’t love a tender, 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 time 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 should utilize leftover pulled pork and that is undoubtedly certainly one of them. When you’re pressed for time, choose up some store-bought pulled pork and make your self a sandwich one evening, some nachos the following, and don’t overlook this flavorful and filling loaded potato, good for a busy, weeknight meal.

Ingredient Notes

• Potatoes: Select 4 medium-sized contemporary russet potatoes which might be all roughly the identical dimension.
• Olive Oil: You should utilize any impartial cooking oil like avocado or vegetable oil as nicely.
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese: Freshly shredded melts higher than pre-shredded cheese, which comprises components to stop 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 high! When you’re feeling formidable, attempt our homemade sauce!
• Bitter Cream: Plain Greek yogurt can be utilized as an alternative. It’s comparable in taste and consistency, and usually decrease in energy and fats.
• Inexperienced Onions: You may 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 may also preserve it easy and use store-bought pulled pork!

Potato Choices

You should utilize different kinds of potatoes akin to candy potatoes, Yukon gold, or pink potatoes. Nonetheless, needless to say several types of potatoes have completely 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 Possibility

You may at all times 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 executed when a fork simply goes into the flesh.