This recipe is straightforward, but so flavorful and filling—one potato is the entire meal! Who doesn’t love a smooth, pillowy baked potato with melted butter and gooey cheddar cheese? We’ve given your primary baked potato an improve, loading it with tender, smoky pulled pork.

Serve it with a Basic Caesar Salad or a summer season favourite, our Strawberry Spinach Salad.

Love a pulled pork sandwich? Neglect the bun and use a potato! There are such a lot of nice ways in which you need to use leftover pulled pork and that is undoubtedly considered one of them. For those who’re pressed for time, decide up some store-bought pulled pork and make your self a sandwich one evening, some nachos the subsequent, and don’t overlook this flavorful and filling loaded potato, excellent for a busy, weeknight meal.

Ingredient Notes

• Potatoes: Select 4 medium-sized recent russet potatoes which can be all roughly the identical dimension.
• Olive Oil: You should utilize any impartial cooking oil like avocado or vegetable oil as properly.
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese: Freshly shredded melts higher than pre-shredded cheese, which incorporates components to forestall clumping.
• Pulled Pork: Use leftover, do-it-yourself pulled pork or store-bought.
• Barbecue Sauce: We did a blind style check and Kraft got here out on high! For those who’re feeling formidable, attempt our do-it-yourself sauce!
• Bitter Cream: Plain Greek yogurt can be utilized in its place. It’s related in taste and consistency, and usually decrease in energy and fats.
• Inexperienced Onions: You may substitute with chives for the same but milder onion taste.

Pulled Pork

Undecided which pulled pork to make use of? We love our Sluggish Cooker Honey-Chipotle Pulled Pork, Kalua Pork, and even Pulled Ham. You can even preserve it easy and use store-bought pulled pork!

Potato Choices

You should utilize different forms of potatoes equivalent to candy potatoes, Yukon gold, or crimson potatoes. Nevertheless, remember that various kinds of potatoes have totally different textures and are available in numerous sizes.

A Yukon gold or crimson potato will probably be considerably smaller than a russet potato however completely works and will even be used to remodel this dish into an appetizer. Candy potatoes are extra related in dimension.

Microwave Possibility

You may at all times use a microwave to prepare dinner the potatoes. Poke holes within the potatoes as indicated, rub with oil and salt, and microwave on excessive for five minutes. Flip over, then microwave for an additional 5 minutes. They’re carried out when a fork simply goes into the flesh.