Why we love this recipe
I love baked potatoes with a ridiculous amount of love.
And my love for them spilleth over when they are topped or stuffed with other things I love, like eggs or taco spices or cheeseburger fixings, meaning that over time, all of those things have found their way into my baked potatoes.
And whether you call them baked stuffed potatoes, or twice baked potatoes or simply potatoes for supper, that stuffing turns them into a full-on delicious meal.
I also love pizza with a ridiculous amount of love, so this particular pizza stuffed potatoes recipe was inevitable. Baked potato, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and just for good measure for those who like it, some pepperoni.
Because if you are going to mash up your baked potato with your pizza, you might as well go the full monty!
Side note: I was pretty sure I was on firm ground using that phrase, but just to be sure I looked it up on my friend Wikipedia, and they said ” A US equivalent might be the phrase “the whole nine yards”, “the whole ball of wax”, “the whole enchilada”, “the whole shebang” or “the whole hog”.
Since the 1997 release of the film The Full Monty, which features a group of men in Sheffield learning to become striptease performers, the phrase has also come to mean a person removing every item of their clothing.”
I love that movie, and I love this definition. I am filled with all kinds of love today.
Back to the potato love.
What kind of potatoes should I get for baked potatoes?
I am a big old fan of the Yukon Gold potato, and that is my potato of choice for so many potato recipes…but in the case of baked potatoes of any kind, you want to stick with russet potatoes, sometimes also called Idaho potatoes.
They have a more substantial skin (more on that later) that holds up to the baking and scooping and filling you are about to do, so save the Yukons for mashies, and go for the russets!
Ingredients you need for this recipe
- Potatoes: Idaho or Russet potatoes, scrubbed clean!
- Butter: Salted or unsalted both work.
- Milk
- Cream Cheese: At room temperature.
- Mozzarella Cheese: The shredded kind in the bag.
- Pizza Sauce: You can find this in the pasta aisle.
- Pepperoni (or other sliced sausage, optional!)
- Oregano: The dried kind.
- Salt and Pepper
Here’s how you make Pizza Stuffed Potatoes!
STEP 1: You want to bake up your potatoes until they are nice and tender. You can do this in the oven the old-fangled way, but I always use my microwave.
I can’t tell the difference and it cuts the baking time down from an hour to about 8 to 12 minutes. Which is fabulous, because when I want a pizza stuffed potato, I want it as soon as humanly possible.
STEP 2: When the potato is just cool enough to handle, cut an oval in the top and scoop out the cooked potato, leaving the skin intact – it should look like a little potato boat.
STEP 3: Now mash the insides with some milk, butter, cream cheese and shredded mozzarella. Taste it and add a little sea salt and pepper.
STEP 4: Next, paint the bottom of your potato boats with about a tablespoon of jarred pizza sauce. Smoosh each boat full of the cheesy potato filling, and spread a little more pizza sauce on top.
STEP 5: If you have sausage lovers in the crowd, nestle a few pepperoni or Genoa salami slices on top, sprinkle with a little more mozzarella and some oregano, place them on a rimmed baking dish and pop them in the oven for about 10 minutes so the cheese has a chance to get properly melty.
Pizza Baked Potatoes FAQ
You can definitely try this with sweet potatoes! Just steer clear of any potato that has a think skin (like Yukon Gold or butter potatoes) as you need all that sturdy potato skin to keep in the pizza fixings.
It’s usually in the aisle with the pasta sauces, usually where they have the extra flavors like Alfredo.
Mostly! You can make them ahead all the way up to the part where they go in the oven. Bring them to room temperature before you bake ’em.
Pop your question in the comments section below and I promise to answer pronto!
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Pizza Baked Potatoes
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Microwave, Oven
- Cuisine: American
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Baked potatoes meet pizza in this easy recipe for pizza baked potatoes, and it’s a suppertime match made in heaven!
Ingredients
- 4 baking potatoes, scrubbed clean
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
- 12–16 slices pepperoni (optional!)
- 1 tablespoon oregano
- Sea salt and pepper
Instructions
- Pierce potatoes a few times with a paring knife and microwave on full power until potatoes are tender, about 8 minutes. A knife should go into it easily. If your potatoes aren’t tender after 8 minutes, flip them over, pop them back in and microwave for another 4 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 and line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
- When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut an oval shape into the top of each one and scoop out the insides, leaving the skins intact.
- Mash the insides with the butter, cream cheese, milk and one cup of the mozzarella. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Spread a tablespoon of the pizza sauce in the bottom of each potato skin shell. Divide the potato filling amount the shells, pressing down and leaving a little indentation on top.
- Spoon a little pizza sauce into the indentation on each potato. If you have pepperoni lovers around, tuck a few pepperoni slices on top and cover with remaining mozzarella, otherwise just use the mozzarella. Sprinkle with oregano.
- Bake for about 10 minutes, remove from the oven and serve!
Notes
Potatoes: You want potatoes with a sturdy skin to hold in the mashed pizza deliciousness, so look for Russet or Idaho potatoes in your produce section.
Pizza Sauce: You can find this right near the pasta sauce in your supermarket.
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