Hello folks it is Barry here welcome to my virgin kitchen hope you are well today is
another Sunday funday video and it is the turn of mini food you guys love the mini food
I love the mini food and I have had lots of requests surprisingly to make a mini baked
potato and I thought that is quite easy so I wanted to do something a little harder,
sorry to put down the baked potato posse but we are going to do a mini hasselback potato
I have done one of those before here is an image on the screen right now basically a
baked potato where you slice it into segments nearly all the way through and it kind of
blossoms as it bakes and I think it is going to work.
I am double excited because where is it I am going to be using my mini cheese grater
I got sent 3 of these so thanks so much for that will be using that later on but without
further ado lets get going.
It is fair to say the mini food apparatus arsenal is growing and many sent in by you
guys so thanks for that this pan which we will use in just a moment and of course this
hamper is never getting old loving it to bit we have a nice little mini salad potato perfect
for our mini food plate which we will come to in just a moment but first things first
we are going to need to cook some bacon now this is the thinnest rasher of bacon I can
find I am going to have to halve it and halve again using the scalpel.
The amazing thing about this mini food is I do not actually need that much bacon so
this fat area I do not need that so can give it to the dog I am going to wipe down this
area so do not worry folks, lets get a nice segment out of here.
Like an operation or something there we go that strip there is perfect we cut it down
to chunks now there we go does not want to come off my thumb nice segments of bacon which
we will now cook up.
Alright lets get this down on a low flame it is going to balance yes awesome little
drizzle of olive oil and then we just push in the bacon I do not think this is going
to take long to cook at all time to wash the board and cook this up.
And of course our nail file is perfect for stirring these around so get them nice and
cooked through then rest to one side on a teeny piece of kitchen towel.
So here is the potato and the washed knife and all we are going to do is carefully wow
this is a sharp blade on this thing we are going to cut nearly all the way down in segments
ok, so you can see that pattern there I am going to repeat it all the way across.
Alright and my last incision on the end watch out for the ends if you are trying this you
will notice my fingers have gone a little wet from the starch oh that looks a little
like an armadillo the starch in potatoes when you slice a potato anyway give them a pat
dry so another sheet of mini kitchen towel here we want to get rid of that starch make
it as dry as possible.
Next thing is a coat in olive oil to lubricate it roll it around there encourage it to fall
in the grooves too get it in if you can.
Giving it a sprinkle of salt, wow, and then pepper I do not have mini salt and pepper
grinders yet no doubt you guys will tell me where to get them so now we are going to bake
this in the oven, normally you would bake it in the oven just on the shelf for a normal
potato maybe I will do a video on how I do a baked potato if you want to see that but
lets see if it will fit on there, maybe it will.
So here are one of the shelves from the oven and the potato does just fit on there perfect
so I need to pre-heat the oven get it cooked and see if it blossoms.
Super excited because I am using the mini cheese grater with the parmigiana regianno
the good stuff right on there freshly grated wow that is quite a lot, we are also now going
to chop up the chives because they are going in there and also some standard slices of
cheddar cheese in little squares.
Folks I have just taken it from the oven but if you excuse the pun, ah that is hot indeed,
you can see the slices there it as given me a gap once it cools down to fill it.
So just to show you will the nail file we have some pockets that have opened up now
which we can fill with the ingredients so sticking slices of cheese in, and in goes
the bacon, managed to get all the bacon in there and a little sprinkle of our cheese
and we are going to bake it in our oven just to melt through the cheese and finish with
the chives.
Here we go folks straight from the oven is our mini hasselback potato the cheese nice
and melted there lets give it a little topping I just found some cr�me fraiche amazing
so a little cr�me fraiche and a sprinkle of chives on top oh my gosh that looks amazing
loving that height and here as usual is a coin for scale purposes I cannot wait to eat
this.
Well Boston I would call this mini food a success down the hatch it goes oh my god you
smelling it now that is perfect portion control another mini food success loving it any more
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See you next time