British

Jacket potatoes with beans

The proper oven method for a crisp-skinned baked potato, topped with beans, butter and cheese.

  • Yield4 potatoes
  • Prep5m
  • Cook1h 40m
  • Effortweeknight

  • 4 baking potatoes
  • oil, for rubbing
  • salt
  • 1 400g tin baked beans
  • butter
  • 150g mature Cheddar, grated

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 220ºC (200ºC fan). Rub the potatoes with a little oil and salt, place on a baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes.
  2. Turn the oven down to 190ºC (170ºC fan) and bake for a further 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, until the flesh is tender and the skin is crisp and golden.
  3. Warm the baked beans in a pan.
  4. Cut a cross in the top of each potato and squeeze the base to open it up. Add a knob of butter, spoon over the beans and top with grated cheese.