Potato Skins with Pesto Mash

What a good idea for a starter. Potato skins are very delicious and you could make them on their own with a little sour cream (or cream cheese) and sweet chili sauce or you could make a pesto mash with the insides. Sadly I can not take any credit for the pesto mash, a friend showed me this idea she had gotten from a friend. But it is wonderful :) Here I made half with Pesto mash and half plain with cream cheese and sweet chili. It's up to you though!

You will need;

6 Medium Potatoes

2 Tablespoons of Pesto

Milk

Butter

Salt and Pepper

Cheese (for top)

Cream Cheese or Sour Cream

Sweet Chili Sauce.

First put your oven on to 250 degrees celsius. Whilst it is heating up put all the potatoes in the microwave for about 10 minutes, forking both sides first. Once they are partly cooked, spray oil and salt and pepper on them and put in oven until really crispy on outside and soft on inside.

Once they are ready, cut them length ways in half and scoop out the insides of the potato into a bowl. Don't scoop right to the skin, leave a thickish layer of potato in the skin. This is what makes them potato skins.

When you have all the potato scooped out, spray the skins again and put back into the oven on the same high heat and cook until they are nice and crispy.

While this is cooking, make your pesto mash. Just add a little milk (a very little) and some butter and the pesto along with some salt and pepper. Easy!

Ok now your skins are done, fill half of them with the mash and put a sprinkle of cheese on top (see below) then put back in oven to melt the cheese on top.

Whallah! These are the most delicious things ever. I am not even kidding. Especially if you put cream cheese (or sour cream) and sweet chili sauce on some of them.

Enjoy.