Pulled Pork Loaded Potato – The Keep At Dwelling Chef

This recipe is straightforward, 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 primary 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? Overlook 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 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 subsequent, and don’t neglect this flavorful and filling loaded potato, excellent for a busy, weeknight meal.

Ingredient Notes

• Potatoes: Select 4 medium-sized contemporary russet potatoes which can be all roughly the identical measurement.
• Olive Oil: You should utilize any impartial cooking oil like avocado or vegetable oil as effectively.
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese: Freshly shredded melts higher than pre-shredded cheese, which incorporates components to forestall clumping.
• Pulled Pork: Use leftover, selfmade pulled pork or store-bought.
• Barbecue Sauce: We did a blind taste take a look at and Kraft got here out on prime! When you’re feeling formidable, strive our homemade sauce!
• Bitter Cream: Plain Greek yogurt can be utilized as an alternative. It’s related in taste and consistency, and sometimes decrease in energy and fats.
• Inexperienced Onions: You may substitute with chives for the same but milder onion taste.

Pulled Pork

Unsure which pulled pork to make use of? We love our Slow Cooker Honey-Chipotle Pulled Pork, Kalua Pork, and even Pulled Ham. It’s also possible to preserve it easy and use store-bought pulled pork!

Potato Choices

You should utilize different sorts of potatoes resembling candy potatoes, Yukon gold, or purple potatoes. Nevertheless, needless to say various kinds of potatoes have totally different textures and are available in numerous sizes.

A Yukon gold or purple potato might 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 related in measurement.

Microwave Choice

You may all the time use a microwave to cook 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 one more 5 minutes. They’re finished when a fork simply goes into the flesh.