Day 136.
Happy Slow Cooking Thursday! Grab yourself a cup of coffee and go visit Sandra's blog and read all of the other slow-cooking contributions.
These potatoes are so easy, and are so wonderful. All it is is a big baked potato with garlic shoved in it. They are a snap to make, and if you can find fresh garlic already peeled in a bag, all the better.
The Ingredients.
--4 big brown potatoes
--2 T melted butter
--2 T olive oil
--salt and pepper
--8 or so garlic cloves
The Directions.
Peel the garlic and cut it into long slivers.
Wash your potatoes, and pat dry. Carefully cut slits into each potato about 1/2 inch thick almost do the very base. The potato should start to separate a bit like an accordion.
Shove as many garlic slices as you can in each slit of each potato.
Nestle the potatoes into your crockpot. I used an oval 6qt Smart Pot, and the potatoes didn't fit all the way down to the bottom, they kind of were halfway on each other. It doesn't seem to matter.
Liberally salt and pepper. Combine the melted butter with the olive oil and drizzle over the top of each potato, trying to get some in the garlic-filled slits, if you can.
Cover and cook on high for 2-4 hours or on low for about 6. They are done when the potatoes reach desired tenderness.
Top with sour cream.
The Verdict.
This is a beautiful side dish to any meat dish, or a wonderful lunch all on it's own. The potatoes were not too wet or slimy as I feared, and the garlic roasted perfectly in the slits.
The kids ate the sour cream off of theirs, and maybe tried the potato. I wasn't watching them too carefully.
All in all, I would definitely make these again.
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15 comments:
Hi Steph .We love garlic this is a lovely combination...thanks for sharing.Have a great day.
I just love your blog. I love it so much I put a link to you on my url! Happy Crock Potting!
This looks great! Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes!
Hi Stephanie,
I'm glad I finally figured out how to add a comment - rather than trying to sign in, I just use anonymous. This recipe looks really good too, good thing I have 3 crockpots, I can do the chicken from yesterday, today's potatoes, now just need a vegetable - wait, the potatoes are a vegetable! Anyway, I didn't mean all Penzey's Spices have MSG, they sell MSG as one of their spices. Did you find one near you? I never cared much about spices til I tried Penzey's, now I love going to their store and buying them!
Lynn
These look like a great side dish. I'll definitely try them.
You make me so.flipping.hungry!!!
Finally, a way I can do a baked potato! Mine always come out of the oven still hard. (seriously, who can't make a baked potato? ME!)
I gave your blog a shout-out on my post today as one of my favorite cooking blogs! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!
What a cool idea, putting garlic in the potato before baking. I love it!
Love garlic mashed potatoes and these garlic baked potatoes sound delicious.
Enjoy visitng your blog.
I love baked pototoes in the crock pot.. I bet the garlic would be very good. Thanks for sharing..
ooooooooooooooooooh these sound yummy!!! I'm playing vacation catch up - sorry I'm late. Mine's at http://www.3sidesofcrazy.com/2008/05/slow-cooking-thursday-chicken-chili.html
I made a slightly modified version of these, and they turned out great!! Instead of salt and pepper, I sprinkled (dried) rosemary over the potatoes. Delicious! (I also substituted smart-balance spread for butter.)
I was doing a search on how to do a lasgne recipe in a crockpot and I found your blog.
I plan on returning to try alot of your recipes!
Keep it up!
How clever! I can't wait to try this. You're really giving me all kinds of ideas - thank you so much for the inspiration.
~Ellen
www.Iamglutenfree.blogspot.com
This is one of my favorites. I whisk some garlic paste into the oil and butter mix to give it an even extra kick of garlic.
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