Recipe: Appetizing Pizza Potato Skin Bites

Pizza Potato Skin Bites. Return to oven to crisp skins. Sprinkle with parsley, if using, and serve immediately. Rub the surface of each potato with canola oil.

You can use any potato you have on hand, but for this recipe, russets work best. Olive Oil - Substitute sunflower, safflower or avocado oil.; Pizza Sauce - Use your favorite or try my recipe for homemade pizza sauce!; Cheese - I used mozzarella cheese, shredded. You can use different types of cheeses you like, such as Monterey. You can have Pizza Potato Skin Bites using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pizza Potato Skin Bites

1. Prepare of baby red potatoes.
2. It's of butter.
3. You need of salt and pepper.
4. It's of jalapeno jack cheese, grated.
5. It's of romano cheese, freshly grated.
6. Prepare of italian seasoning.
7. It's of fresh chopped basil.
8. Prepare of green onion, thin sliced, green part only.
9. You need of marinara sauce plus more for dipping. I used my basic marinara sauce in my profile and in search or use your favorite.
10. Prepare of about 12 thin slices of pepperoni.

Take the potato skins out of the broiler and top with shredded mozzarella cheese and two pepperoni slices per potato skin. Sprinkle each potato skin with Italian seasoning. Serve with pizza sauce or marinara sauce on the side. Place the potatoes directly on the rack in a preheated oven.

Pizza Potato Skin Bites instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with foil..
2. Precook pepperoni (to remove exces oil and insure they are crispy) Place a couple of paper towels on a microwave safe plate, add pepperoni, in one layer cover with paper towel. Microwave on high just 10 to 20 seconds until starting to crisp up.
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4. Cut pepperoni 8nto 4 pieces for each slice.
5. Place potatoes on foil and bake just until tender, about 25 minutes.
6. In a bowl combine cheeses, italian seasoning, green onion and basil.
7. When cool enough to handle, cut each potato in halve and using a teaspoon scoop out enough pulp to make a area for the cheese.
8. Increase oven temperatire to 425. Take hollowed potatoes and place them back on foil lined baking sheet bottom up, brush with butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Return to oven to crisp skins. Bake about 10 - 15:minutes just until golden.
9. Flip them over, brush each one with marinara sauce.
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11. Fill with cheese mixture, top with pepperoni and cooked bacon. I did half pepperoni half bacon.
12. Serve with extra marinara for dipping.
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Remove the potatoes from the oven and slice in half. In a large bowl, toss the potato rounds in olive oil. Season with salt, pepper, cayenne, and garlic powder, and toss until evenly coated. Place in a single layer on a large baking sheet. I love that each one is just a bite (or maybe two if you want to be conservative) and that they are easy as can be to throw together for a party or get together.

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