Baked Potato Skins with Creamy Spinach and Turkey Bacon
2
Points®
Total time: 30 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 20 min • Serves: 6 • Difficulty: Easy
Creamy spinach and salty bacon makes these potatoes a hit. Make a double batch for your next party.
Ingredients
Uncooked potato
3½ small, baked, sliced in half and cooled
Cooking spray
1 spray(s)
Chopped frozen spinach
20 oz, thawed and squeezed dry
Light cream cheese
4 oz, at room temperature
Table salt
¼ tsp(s)
Black pepper
¼ pinch(es)
Cooked turkey bacon
3 slice(s), crumbled
Instructions
1
Preheat oven to 400ºF. Scoop out flesh of potatoes, leaving about 1/4 of potato flesh in potato. (Reserve remaining potato flesh for another use such as mashed potatoes.)
2
Place potato halves on a baking sheet and coat with cooking spray. Bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes. While potato skins bake, combine spinach, cream cheese, salt and pepper in a medium bowl until well-blended.
3
Remove skins from oven and spoon 3 tablespoons of spinach mixture into each potato half; bake until warmed through, about 5 minutes more.
4
Remove skins from oven and top each half with about 1 tablespoon of crumbled bacon.
5
Yields 1 potato half per serving.
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