Title: Twice-Baked Potatoes With Cheese And Chilies
Categories: Potato Side Dish
Yield: 1 Servings

4	lg	Russet Potatoes
		Salt And Freshly Ground
		Black Pepper -- to taste
4	tb	Imported Black Olives --
		Chopped
1/2	c	Canned Mild Green Chili
		Peppers -- diced
4		To 6 Tbs. Heavy Cream
1/2	c	Grated Sharp Cheddar Cheese
		Plus Additional Cheese For
		Topping
1/2	c	Sour Cream -- for garnish
		Whole Imported Black Olives
		For optional garnish

Scrub and dry potatoes. Cut small, deep slit in top of each potato. Set potatoes on middle rack of preheated 375-degree oven and bake for about 1 hour, or until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork.

Let potatoes cool slightly, cut off tops and scrape pulp into a bowl. Don't scrape so deeply that you tear the skin. Salt and pepper potato shells; reserve.

Mash potato pulp and stir in chopped olives, diced chilies and enough cream to give mixture the desired consistency. Season to taste with salt and pepper and stir in 1/2 cup grated cheese.

Divide potato mixture equally among shells, mounding filling slightly. Sprinkle with additional grated cheese and place on baking sheet.

Bake again, at 400, until potatoes are hot and cheese is bubbling.

Top each potato with a generous dollop of sour cream and add a black olive if you'd like. Serve immediately.

Makes 4 servings.

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From the Chile-Heads Recipe Collection URL: http://chile.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu:8000/www/recipe.html Recipe By : The Palm Beach Post, November 17, 1994

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