Baked potato

Baked potatoes or baked potatoes are unpeeled potatoes, which are cooked without the addition of liquid in the glow of a fire in an earth oven or oven. They serve as an accompaniment to grilled or roasted meats or can be eaten with herb cheese, sour cream, tzatziki, cheese, herring flying etc.. Usually floury varieties are used for baking potatoes.

Preparation

There are different variations of the preparation:

• In the simplest variant, the whole potatoes are cooked without any further preparation in the heat or in the oven and eaten out of the shell. Seasoned they are only eating, for example, with salt and herb butter. Or they are being eroded before serving, in part, the Withdrawn seasoned, mixed eg with butter and cream and, as a filling in the potatoes, maybe even topped with cheese (potatoes Byron ).
• To prevent drying of the outer regions, the potatoes can be wrapped in aluminum foil ( baked potatoes ). This method is common in particularly large potatoes with longer cooking times and when cooking in the embers. It is an equivalent to the old technology, food in large leaves to cook wrapped in the glow. Here is also seasoned after cooking.
• In another variant, potatoes are washed, brushed and halved unpeeled lengthwise. Then the cut surfaces are coated according to taste, for example, with a seasoning of butter, cumin and salt or olive oil and herbs such as rosemary or thyme. Finally, the potatoes are placed with the cut side on a greased baking sheet and baked in the oven.