These Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes are just that. An UNBELIEVABLY convenient way to make baked spuds with delicious results! Don’t you just love the slow cooker? Honestly, there are times when I marvel at its simplicity but wonder what I would do without it in my life. It can even make a baked potato more convenient to make! So I thought I’d share this revelation, in case you didn’t already know. I give you… Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes. It’s an ideal way to cook them if you are cooking for guests and need oven room and want a side dish that takes care of itself. OR simply on a busy day when you don’t need to leave them to do their thing for a few hours. Come back to them piping hot, cooked evenly, soft and delicious in the middle and ready to enjoy!
Why you’ll love this Slow Cooker Baked Potato recipe
⭐️ Perfect for a party side dish or easy lunch ⭐️ Best baked potatoes for flavour ⭐️ Simple but SO satisfying They taste richer somehow than oven-baked potatoes. A kind of nutty flavour that is surprisingly delicious. I assume this is because the sugars in the potatoes have cooked slower for longer. Frankly, I could eat them all day 🤩 Because baking potatoes notoriously takes AGES, often we’re forced to use both microwave and oven just to get them anywhere near cooked through. This means two appliances using up electricity for one potato. Alternatively, slow cookers use about the same amount of electricity as a standard light bulb, according to the Energy Saving Trust.
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In the freezer You can freeze cooked jacket potatoes, and what’s best is you can reheat them from frozen too! Wait until they’re totally cold and then put into a freezer proof container and freeze for up to 3 months. Unfortunately this is the one downside of slow cooker potatoes. They don’t get crispy. BUT if you really want that crispy skin you could finish them off in the oven for 10 minutes at 220C. There are infinite choices here, but here are a few recommendations:
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Also I’d LOVE to see your cooking creations. If you’d like to share yours with me, you can tag me on Instagram (@tamingtwins).
