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Twice Baked Potato Casserole
This Twice Baked Potato Casserole is the ultimate comfort food! Creamy, cheesy, and loaded with bacon, sour cream, and cheddar. An easy side for the holidays or anytime.
👥 12 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 40m⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 1h 25m👤 Melissa Nolan📖 budgetbytes
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●oven
- ●bowl
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Gather and prepare all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2
Prep the potatoes
3
Wash, dry, then pierce the potatoes with a fork. Brush all the potatoes with vegetable oil. Then put them on a parchment-lined oven-safe tray and place them in the oven.
vegetable oil ($0.08)2 Tbsp
4
Cook
5
Lay out the bacon on another parchment-lined oven-safe tray and place it in the oven. Cook the bacon for ⏱️ 15-20 minutes, until crispy. Then remove them from the oven and crumble when cooled. Set aside.
6
Bake
7
Continue cooking the potatoes for an additional ⏱️ 40 minutes, until fork-tender.*** Remove them from the oven.
8
Scoop
9
Turn the oven down to 375°F. When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut three of them in half lengthwise. Scoop out the potatoes into a large bowl and save the skins for another use. (I air-fried mine for a snack).
10
Mash
11
Cut and add the remaining three potatoes, half of the crumbled bacon, butter, sour cream, milk, cream cheese, 1 cup of cheddar cheese, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to the large bowl. Mash and fold together until combined.
sour cream (8 oz, $0.99)1 cupmilk (8 oz ($0.22)*)1 cupcheddar cheese (shredded & divided, (200g) $1.67**)2 cupsgarlic powder ($0.06)1 tspsalt ($0.12)1 Tbsp
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Spread
13
Grease a 9x13 oven-safe dish and pour the potato mixture into the dish. Spread evenly. Top evenly with the remaining cheddar and bacon.
14
Bake, uncovered, for ⏱️ 25 minutes, until melty. Remove from the oven and top with green onions.
Nutrition Facts
calories
541 kcal
fat Content
35 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
3 g
sodium Content
975 mg
protein Content
14 g
carbohydrate Content
45 g
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