Cheesy Potatoes

This is a quick and easy baked potato dish.

You can throw it together in minutes because you did most of the work already back when you did your canning.

It’s extremely calorie-wise, too. Makes 4 generous 250 g / ½ lb portions for just 96 calories a portion.

You will need a 2 litre (2 US quart) casserole dish.

The recipe is easily doubled or tripled to feed a crowd (just use a larger baking dish accordingly.)

(To be clear, this is a “cooking with canning you have already done” recipe. This is not a recipe for canning.)

See also: DIY Scalloped Potato Dry Mix for Dried Potato Slices

This recipe uses:

Home-canned potatoes

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Cheesy Potatoes

This is a quick and easy baked sidedish made with your home-canned potatoes.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword Potatoes

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 55 minutes minutes

Servings 4 cups (1 kg / 32 oz in weight)

Calories 96kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 250 ml water (1 cup / 8 oz)
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 4 tablespoons Parmesan (grated)
• ½ teaspoon salt (OR salt sub)
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
• 2 tablespoons powdered milk (optional)
• ½ teaspoon onion powder (optional)
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
• 1 teaspoon parsley (dried)
• 4 wedges light laughing cow cheese (OR or 50 g / ½ cup grated light cheese)
• 1 litre jar home-canned potatoes (1 quart jar)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• In a large, microwave safe bowl or jug whisk together everything from the water down to and including the parsley.
• Zap for one minute in microwave, whisk, zap for one more minute.
• Remove from microwave.
• Stir in chopped laughing cow pieces (or grated cheese) till melted.
• Open a 1 litre (US quart) jar of potatoes, stir in, with canning water and all.
• Spray a 2 litre (2 quart) casserole dish.
• Empty in the casserole dish.
• Bake at 175 C (350 F) for 45 minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Notes

If you will want a thicker sauce, add another tablespoon of corn starch. Won't affect nutrition much.

Feel free to add more cheese or any cheese of your liking: the cheese quantity is low here in an effort to keep it low-cal, but you can splurge a bit more if desired.

Nutrition

Serving: 250g | Calories: 96kcal | Carbohydrates: 9.9g | Protein: 5.7g | Fat: 3.8g | Saturated Fat: 2.5g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 268mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 2.7g

Nutrition

Per 250 g (1 cup / 8 oz in weight / ¼ of the recipe):

• 96 calories, 268 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®:  250 g (1 cup / 8 oz in weight) = 3 points

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.