Ingredients

  • 2 heads garlic
  • 2 tbsps. olive oil
  • 4 baking potatoes
  • 1/4 cup lite sour cream
  • 1 tbsp. butter or margarine
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Heat oven to 350F.

Take 2 heads of garlic; slice top layer of garlic heads off to expose bulbs.

Drizzle oil on garlic, season with salt and pepper and wrap in foil. Bake for 40 mins. or until garlic is soft and caramel coloured.

In the same 350F oven (at the same time if necessary), bake potatoes on oven rack for 1 hour or until medium soft when squeezed.

Once cooked, slice the top third off the potatoes and scoop out pulp into a medium size bowl. Be careful not to damage skins.

Add the sour cream and butter or margarine to the potato. Squeeze roasted garlic from bulbs into potato pulp in bowl, mash and season with salt and pepper. Spoon mixture back into skins, placing top back on each and wrap each potato in foil.

Reheat potatoes at campsite for about 25-30 minutes.



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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: The Vancouver Sun
Submitted By: Marlen
matchlessm@aol.com
Twice-baked garlic potatoes