Thursday, 11 October 2012

Baked potatoes with salsa

Ingredients:
  • 4 baking potatoes, about
  • 225g/8oz each
  • 1 large avocado
  • 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed
  • lemon juice
  • 175g/6oz smoked tofu, diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tomato, finely chopped
  • 100g/4oz mixed salad leaves

For the salsa

  • 2 tomatoes, diced
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh
  • coriander leaves
  • 1 shallot, finely diced
  • 1 fresh green chilli, seeded
  • and diced
  • 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed
  • lemon juice
  • salt and freshly ground
  • black pepper




• Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas mark 5.

• Scrub the potatoes and prick the skins with a fork. Rub a little salt intothe skins, and put the potatoes on a baking tray. Bake in the oven for1 hour or until cooked through and the skins are crisp.

• Meanwhile, make the salsa just before the end of the potatoes’ cookingtime. Put all the ingredients in a bowl, mix through and season with saltand pepper. Set aside.

• Cut the potatoes in half lengthways, and scoop the flesh into a bowl,leaving a thin layer of potato inside the shells.

• Halve and stone the avocado. Using a spoon, scoop out the avocadoflesh and add to the bowl containing the potato. Stir in the lemon juiceand mash the mixture together with a fork. Mix in the tofu, garlic, onionand tomato. Spoon the mixture into one half of the potato shells
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• Arrange the mixed salad leaves on top of the guacamole mixture, andplace the other half of the potato shell on top. Serve immediately withthe salsa as an accompaniment.

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