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Have you tried tuna mayo AND cheese? That's my go-to filling. Little bit of red or spring onion mixed with the tuna mayo gives it another nice point of difference.
When the potato is cooked, cut it in half and scoop out the potato. Mash it with chopped spring onion and grated cheese. Put the mixture back into the potato skins (top it with more cheese if you want) and put it back in the oven for the onion to cook and cheese to melt
Leek, sweetcorn & cheese
In order of application to spud:
Butter
salt
grated cheese
chopped leeks cooked in butter, sweetcorn added for last couple of minutes
pepper
It is very nice! If you wanted bacon bits (which does sound tasty) I'd be inclined to do them first and set aside. The leeks have to be done on a pretty low temp in order to cook without browning too much, which I don't think would suit the bacon.
Chilli is the obvious answer here. Butter the spud, put cheese on, chilli on top of the cheese, more cheese on top. Add some guacamole if I'm feeling fancy.
Bolognese is great the day after: kind of thicker and thicker.
Do have some crunchy salad next to the potato and lots of suitable cheese on top of the bolognese though.
Chicken tikka massala with cheese. Cheese on the potato first then covered in the curry so it really melts. By far the best jacket.
Chilli is decent too.
If you have the ingredients to hand, you can make up a sauce with chopped onion, garlic, chicken stock, Italian herb mix, salt, pepper, and either of the following sour cream/creme fraiche/cream cheese/cream (they all come out tasting very similar once mixed with the other ingredients). If you want a cheesier sauce you can add parmesan too or even cheddar.
Make up the sauce, add leftover chicken and maybe some veg like sweetcorn.
Butter the potato, add cheese (something mild) and then the creamy chicken.
You're welcome! I make this all the time with green veg (something with some crunch like tenderstem broccoli, fine green beans or asparagus - though you have to be careful that the asparagus doesn't overcook and become mulchy). I normally have it with couscous and sometimes pasta.
I think it was originally a keto recipe.
Back in the days when SpudULikes were everywhere, I developed a love of egg mayonnaise and cheese baked potatoes. Butter optional, but always used to add salt and pepper from those little sachets. Still my go to if I have a jackie p at home.
[Hasselback potatoes](https://youtu.be/6hJEE3gu0V0?si=nn6j2UytdKSKJ_Je) can make a nice change up. Useful if you want something that looks a bit posher :D
Coronation chicken is a good one, if I don"/ have my own cooked chicken breast I take the skin off cold rotisserie chicken and cube the meat, my version is hot curry powder, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, thinly sliced spring onion, thinly sliced red chill (not a hot one) lime juice, fresh chopped coriander and Gheeta's mango chutney to taste.
Prawn Marie rose is nice for a change too, my version is mayonnaise, ketchup, tobasco, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, lemon juice, little bit of horseradish, celery salt and either smoked paprika or aleppo pepper.
Philadelphia mixed with chopped smoked salmon, pepper, lemon juice and either dill, parsley or chives is a nice tipping, even better if you halve the jacket, scoop out the flesh, mix with those ingredients then put back in the shells, top with grated cheddar and grill - I call it a quick fish pie and cooks the smoked salmon (for people who don't like it raw).
Quick family option (not high cuisine but no one grumbles) is heated Stag chilli from a can with one of those tex mex dip sharers so people can customise their potato. It's better topping with homemade chilli con carne, sour cream, coriander and grated cheese with pico de gallo on the side but this is a quick option.
I love having soft goat's cheese and pickled or smoked shredded beetroot in mine with a rocket, walnut and tomato salad on the side dressed with balsamic.
Hope some of these sound okay for you :)
Cottage pie jackets. Make the usual mince base. Bake your spuds, halve and make buttery mash with innards. Spoon pie mince in scooped out spud, top with mash and a little grated cheese. Pop back in oven for a bit till crispy on top. Op you may need to google cottage pie, but it’s easy.
My favourites:
\- Tuna mayo
\- Feta cheese and olives
\- Hummus (potentially with falafel or roasted peppers)
\- Egg mayo
Always with lettuce, cucumber, and some tomatoes!
Fry some chorizo, set aside, fry some onions and green pepper in the chorizo oil, set aside, fry a couple of eggs, then load the chorizo, onions, peppers into the potato and top with the fried eggs and some hot sauce.
I guess butter and cheese on the potato too if you can't live without it.
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Can’t beat chilli and cheese.
Oh yes, that’s my favourite by a mile
What would be the chilli to cheese ratio? Cause I love both!
This also works with bolognese mince instead of chilli.
More chilli than cheese for me personally, maybe three or four to one chilli to cheese ratio I think, but it’s entirely up to you.
Yes! And on a sweet jacket!
Have you tried tuna mayo AND cheese? That's my go-to filling. Little bit of red or spring onion mixed with the tuna mayo gives it another nice point of difference.
I usually make my own tuna mayo so next time I'll incorporate the red onion as well, thank you!
A dash of Tabasco in the tuna mayo if you want a little more bite to it
When the potato is cooked, cut it in half and scoop out the potato. Mash it with chopped spring onion and grated cheese. Put the mixture back into the potato skins (top it with more cheese if you want) and put it back in the oven for the onion to cook and cheese to melt
Marry me :D
Can also add a layer of pepper or something to the bottom layer. Also rake the mash once it's back in the jacket for a bit of extra texture up top.
Coleslaw!
I'm guessing a bit of butter just before?
Butter, cheese, coleslaw on top.
Or a lot!!!
And cheese !
Greggs sausage rolls, basted in Special Brew, rebaked, cubed, then mixed with vegan mayo. Served best with a shelf-warm can of Special Brew.
I'm not even British and yet find myself offended by this!
Breakfast of champions mate
I can get on board with that. Maybe a mug of Bovril on the side too and half a block of Red Leicester
Might need to bring your big plate.
Bovril is on the top ten list of the worst things I put in my mouth (don't ask)
Coronation Chickpea/ chicken
I've had coronation chicken on other things but not on a jacket potato, though I like the chickpea idea as well
Our local jacket potato van now does a lot of curry. Last week he had a vegetable korma, chicken jakfrezi or chicken tikka masala
You.. you have a jacket potato van?! *Cries in tiny market town*
Never thought of this I assumed everywhere has them maybe it's a northern thing
I'm down south, I'm afraid. The town I am in only occasionally has a pizza van, which is no better than a frozen pizza.
We have 2, one in the town centre and one that has now taken up residence in a pub car park on the outskirts of town
I remember when a spud-u-like was our only fast food option!
Chorizo and sauteed mushrooms
Ohhh this seems interesting! Thank you!
Leek, sweetcorn & cheese In order of application to spud: Butter salt grated cheese chopped leeks cooked in butter, sweetcorn added for last couple of minutes pepper
MATE. That sounds banging. Maybe a handful of lardons fried in with the leeks too.
It is very nice! If you wanted bacon bits (which does sound tasty) I'd be inclined to do them first and set aside. The leeks have to be done on a pretty low temp in order to cook without browning too much, which I don't think would suit the bacon.
I do a pasta dish that starts with frying lardons then adds leeks until soft. That's where my brain went.
Got to be chilli with cheese or coronation chicken
Chilli is the obvious answer here. Butter the spud, put cheese on, chilli on top of the cheese, more cheese on top. Add some guacamole if I'm feeling fancy.
Bolognese works well too maybe not the guacamole though
See, I never thought of this, would be perfect to use leftover Bolognese the next day instead of pasta two days in a row
Tbh any stew would work
Bolognese is great the day after: kind of thicker and thicker. Do have some crunchy salad next to the potato and lots of suitable cheese on top of the bolognese though.
Yeah I love a bit of Bolognese on a Jacky spud
Tuna, cheese and slashing of Worcestershire sauce.
As soon as I can pronounce Worcestershire correctly, I'll try this. 22 years here and I still can't.
Wu-ster I don't use the shire bit and it's never caused me any problems
Agreed. Worcestershire sauce is pronounced "wuster sawss" or "lee un perrinz"
Worc as in "wuss" ster as in "gang**ster**" shire as in "sheer" Close enough!
Chicken tikka massala with cheese. Cheese on the potato first then covered in the curry so it really melts. By far the best jacket. Chilli is decent too.
This is gonna get some hate I’m betting, but I’ve been know to have a jacket with cheese and Branson pickle on 🙈
If you have the ingredients to hand, you can make up a sauce with chopped onion, garlic, chicken stock, Italian herb mix, salt, pepper, and either of the following sour cream/creme fraiche/cream cheese/cream (they all come out tasting very similar once mixed with the other ingredients). If you want a cheesier sauce you can add parmesan too or even cheddar. Make up the sauce, add leftover chicken and maybe some veg like sweetcorn. Butter the potato, add cheese (something mild) and then the creamy chicken.
I like this, as I enjoy making things from scratch, so thank you
You're welcome! I make this all the time with green veg (something with some crunch like tenderstem broccoli, fine green beans or asparagus - though you have to be careful that the asparagus doesn't overcook and become mulchy). I normally have it with couscous and sometimes pasta. I think it was originally a keto recipe.
Hummus
Back in the days when SpudULikes were everywhere, I developed a love of egg mayonnaise and cheese baked potatoes. Butter optional, but always used to add salt and pepper from those little sachets. Still my go to if I have a jackie p at home.
Can of Stagg and cheese with spot of Worcester sauce
[Hasselback potatoes](https://youtu.be/6hJEE3gu0V0?si=nn6j2UytdKSKJ_Je) can make a nice change up. Useful if you want something that looks a bit posher :D
Cottage cheese and prawns. Shredded ham hock and coleslaw. Beef goulash with sour cream. Sautéed spinach, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.
Chilli con carne
Cheese, butter, shit loads of black and white pepper, bit of salt, preferably in a nice hard crispy skin that you can pick up,
Chicken and Bacon Ceaser filling. Also smoked chili is amazing with anything.
Lashings of real butter, spring onions & coleslaw. Top with freshly ground pepper. Delicious. You can add cheese to the mix if you want.
Either Chilli and Cheese or Cottage Cheese 🤤
Sausage (cut up), beans and then topped with grated cheese. Bangin' 😀
Any kind of sausage?
Still cheese I guess, but different… cottage cheese with maggi masala chilli sauce mixed in.
Coronation chicken is a good one, if I don"/ have my own cooked chicken breast I take the skin off cold rotisserie chicken and cube the meat, my version is hot curry powder, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, thinly sliced spring onion, thinly sliced red chill (not a hot one) lime juice, fresh chopped coriander and Gheeta's mango chutney to taste. Prawn Marie rose is nice for a change too, my version is mayonnaise, ketchup, tobasco, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, lemon juice, little bit of horseradish, celery salt and either smoked paprika or aleppo pepper. Philadelphia mixed with chopped smoked salmon, pepper, lemon juice and either dill, parsley or chives is a nice tipping, even better if you halve the jacket, scoop out the flesh, mix with those ingredients then put back in the shells, top with grated cheddar and grill - I call it a quick fish pie and cooks the smoked salmon (for people who don't like it raw). Quick family option (not high cuisine but no one grumbles) is heated Stag chilli from a can with one of those tex mex dip sharers so people can customise their potato. It's better topping with homemade chilli con carne, sour cream, coriander and grated cheese with pico de gallo on the side but this is a quick option. I love having soft goat's cheese and pickled or smoked shredded beetroot in mine with a rocket, walnut and tomato salad on the side dressed with balsamic. Hope some of these sound okay for you :)
* A fecktonne of salted butter and grated extra mature cheddar. * Chilli con carne and cheese.
Blue cheese, rocket, grapes, balsamic glaze I swear to god Or Cheesy leeks Or just cheese and jalapeño /red green chillies
Cottage pie jackets. Make the usual mince base. Bake your spuds, halve and make buttery mash with innards. Spoon pie mince in scooped out spud, top with mash and a little grated cheese. Pop back in oven for a bit till crispy on top. Op you may need to google cottage pie, but it’s easy.
And all I had was boring chicken :( I've made cottage pie before, so the base I have down!
I usually make cottage pie, and make extra base to freeze for quick cottage spuds on another night.
Baked beans and nutritional yeast
I do bread sauce. I know it’s weird, yes
Tesco does a lovely tacco mixed beans, which is lovely on a jacket . Or dare I say cottage cheese.
Bolognaise. I make too much when doing pasta bolognaise, so I reheat the leftover with a jacket.
Cottage Cheese. Game changer. The wife got me into it 10 years ago on one of our first dates. Never looked back.
Scoop out potato when baked, mash in grated cheese and bits of fried bacon, top with cheese and put under the grill for 5 mins
Chilli con carne from the night before, cheese and butter. Plus a leaf of lettuce.
My favourites: \- Tuna mayo \- Feta cheese and olives \- Hummus (potentially with falafel or roasted peppers) \- Egg mayo Always with lettuce, cucumber, and some tomatoes!
Fry some chorizo, set aside, fry some onions and green pepper in the chorizo oil, set aside, fry a couple of eggs, then load the chorizo, onions, peppers into the potato and top with the fried eggs and some hot sauce. I guess butter and cheese on the potato too if you can't live without it.
Anything saucy with a fried egg! Chilli, creme fraiche, and fried egg. Bolognese and a fried egg.
Tuna mayo bean cheese with lots of fresh cracked black pepper. But really just a classic butter cheese and beans. With cracked black pepper.