Cheesy Bacon Ranch Potatoes | Episode 1035

hi guys I'm Laura Vitale on this episode of Laura in the kitchen I want to show you what I like to call my cheesy bacon ranch potato bake it is out of this world it's just if you love like loaded baked potatoes or potato skins and then you put a little ranch on it then this is a recipe for you and I wanted to share this with you now because it's so easy it's such a hit around here and with the Easter holiday coming I figured it'd be a great side dish to your ham onto anything that you really want to make I always make classic potato salad and deviled eggs for Easter and I think adding this to my lunch table or dinner table or whatever whenever you eat it's gonna definitely be a hit because it's really just so so good you have to trust me the ring range you'll need right now at this stage are very few you only some potatoes what I've done is I've just taken regular ol russet potatoes and I have peeled them and I've cubed them about all the same size roughly about all the same size I've got some unsalted butter that I've melted and then here what I have are some dried onion flakes you can also use onion powder and some dry parsley which you can leave out if you want to and you need some salt and pepper that's all you need at this stage and then later I'll show you the rest of the ingredients I've got my oven preheated to 400 and now we are running rock and roll I've got a nice baking pan big enough to hold everything nicely it's not all in one single layer because you're not roasting potatoes this is a bake so what I'm gonna do to these potatoes is I'm gonna drizzle them with my melted butter and they're gonna just soak it up and just be absolutely dynamite you're gonna have to trust me and then I've got some onion flakes and the dried parsley once all of it are green and then I need some black pepper I love a lot of black pepper in my potatoes anything whether it's french fries baked potatoes mashed potatoes I like a lot of black pepper so I go pretty generously here and a healthy pinch of salt because potatoes need salt and then what I'm gonna do is just give everything a toss just to make sure that that butter is coating the potatoes nicely and then all I need to do that's good enough all I need to do is cover these with some aluminum foil and these just needs to go into the oven for an hour and what I like to do is I like to bake them for a 1 hour to an hour with for a half an hour with a foil on and then half an hour with the foil off and just give them a stir every now and then just to make sure everything is getting evenly evenly colored or roasted or whatnot just make sure that if your potatoes in an hour from now are still really hard when you pierce them with a knife and they need to cook a little bit longer but for me for this size I know one hour it's gonna be plenty of time just remember half an hour with the foil on and half an hour with the foil off and I'll show you the next step once they're done all right I took my potatoes out of the oven about ten minutes ago they were in there for a full hour but remember thirty minutes of that our wood they were covered with aluminum foil and I took you a living foil off let them bake for 15 minutes give them a stir let them bake for another 15 minutes and you can see they've got color here and there but they're not roasted potatoes what's gonna happen is they get really lovely and cheesy and amazing but this is what you need to do next I have some ranch dressing here I have no shame in my game I love to dip potatoes and ranch dressing whether they're roasted whether it's potato skins a loaded baked potato I just love it I like to make my own I'm sharing a recipe with you here a while back but you can use store-bought ranch dressing who cares you just need your favorite ranch dressing and what I like to do is I like to take some ranch and you know take your time with this I don't like to toss my potatoes because I don't want to really disturb the way that they are so I just like to take some ranch but you're gonna toss them in there I mean doesn't really matter it really does not make that much of a difference because once everything bakes together with the cheese the flavor is just kind of all meld if you will so good just you wait it's kind of like one of those things that is so simple but once you bring it to someone's house and ends up being the star of the table because it people just can't get him out and I love potato anything okay nearly there you can put as much or as little as you want I find about a half a cup or so to be perfect and then all you need next which is optional but for me a must some cooked bacon this is just bacon that I had cooked in the fridge and you just give it a chop into bite-size pieces again as much or as little as you want when I like my baked potatoes I like it loaded so I like to put a lot of bacon because I love those salty bites and it goes really well with the tangy dressing and then you need a really strong sharp cheddar and then just kind of cover the top of that like so and now I just need to pop this back into the oven I just need the cheese and everything to melt it'll take about five to six minutes not that long keep an eye on it and then we will get to taste it I'm so excited all right so my potatoes went back in for just five minutes I just wanted the cheese to melt and then what I have here are some green onions because again I like green onions on potato skins on traditional potato skins anyway and I really like them on my loaded baked potato what did you sprinkle a few on there like so and I'm gonna need to just dig in because I can't I just literally can't even take it anymore I want a piece of green onion a piece of potato where's my bacon though there we go I have everything on one I'm so excited it smells so insanely good but give me a minute because this is gonna be hot it's literally like eating heaven there are so good so perfectly cheesy that ranch is just like the perfect amount of tankiness I'm telling you these are a winner make them for your holiday table everyone will go crazy for these they're just so good and they're really you can make a really big quantity for not that much money because it's really an expensive recipe that's just hits you in all the right places get the recipe and Laura in the kitchen calm but they'll enjoy spending time with me and I will see you

Channel: Laura in the Kitchen

Views: 1,559,063

Keywords: chef vitale, chef laura vitale, laura vitale, chef laura

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Length: 6min 47sec (407 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 18 2016