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Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese

Jacket Potato with Beans and Cheese

Beginner15 mins · serves 2 · microwave

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Method

  1. 1

    Wash the potatoes and stab each one six or seven times with a fork. Skip this and one of them will burst in the microwave, which is not a maybe.

  2. 2

    Full power for six minutes, turn them over, then five or six more. They are done when a knife goes into the middle with no resistance at all.

  3. 3

    Heat the beans while the potatoes are going, in a pan or in the microwave once they are out.

  4. 4

    Split them open and work the butter and a pinch of salt into the flesh with a fork before anything else goes near it. Butter into the hot inside is what makes it taste like a jacket potato instead of a boiled one.

  5. 5

    Beans over the top, cheese on top of the beans. That order lets the heat coming off the beans melt the cheese. Cheese underneath just sits there cold.