Need a filling dinner that's easy to make (and cheap)? Add one of these baked potato recipes to your weekly meal rotation.
Potatoes are cheap and filling. Which is how these baked potato recipes are going to both save your grocery budget, as well as satisfy your family for dinner.
Choose one night a week to make the baked potato the star of your meal, and watch your grocery spending decrease.
Baked Potato Recipes
These stuffed baked potato recipes are filling and can feed a small crowd on a budget.
Don't make me choose my favorite!
1. Tex-Mex Dip-Stuffed Potatoes
Mmmmmmmkercrunchcrunchcrunch…<oh I’m sorry, you caught me stuffing my face with one of these potatoes. They’re so darn good.>
Ingredients:
- 4 large Russet potatoes
- 1 cup corn (frozen is fine)
- 1 cup of black beans
- 1 tbsp. cream cheese
- 1 tbsp. sour cream
- 1 bell pepper, chopped up
- 2 tbsps. green chiles (chopped)
- Pepper Jack cheese
- Tortilla strips (optional)
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Wash and scrub the outside of the potatoes. Bake for about an hour (ours took 1 hour and 15 minutes because it depends on the size – they should be tender when poked with a fork).
- Rinse the black beans.
- Melt 1 tbsp. butter over medium heat in a saucepan.
- Add 1 cup of black beans, 1 cup frozen corn, 1 chopped bell pepper, and 2 tbsps. of green chiles to a saucepan.
- Cook through. Season with salt and pepper.
- Take off heat, and add in 1 tbsp. sour cream and 1 tbsp. cream cheese. Stir until mixed.
- Cut two lines in each potato, and flatten around the insides with a fork to make a platform.
- Stuff each potato with as much of this mixture as you can.
- Shred some cheese over the top (our cheese of choice: Pepper Jack).
- Put them in the oven again until the cheese is warm and bubbling.
- Top with tortilla strips, if you have them.
Serves: 4
It's a great meatless meal that's quick to make and satisfying to eat.
2. Chorizo Cheese Dip-Stuffed Potatoes
Looking for stuffed baked potatoes main dishes?
Chorizo can have a strong flavor, but paired with this cheese dip and the potato…it balances everything beautifully.
Ingredients:
- 2 potatoes
- 8 oz. chorizo or other loose sausage (your choice)
- ¾ cup to 1 cup shredded cheese (sharp cheddar, colby jack, etc. – your choice)
- ½ cup Milk
- 1 tbsp. Flour
- ¼ cup Mild Salsa Verde
Instructions:
- Wash the potatoes, and poke a few holes into them with a fork.
- Cook the potatoes however you would like (either in the microwave or in the oven).
- Microwave the potatoes until they are tender on the inside (this will depend on the size of your potatoes – my microwave has a Potato setting and I usually run it through that, twice).
- To cook in an oven, preheat the oven to 400° Fahrenheit. Wrap the potatoes in foil, and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour (until they’re soft when you put a fork through them.
- Heat a pan on medium heat on the stove and cook the chorizo all the way through.
- Make sauce. Mix in ½ cup milk with 1 tbsp flour, and stir until it thickens. Add in ¼ cup Salsa Verde Mild sauce. Stir in ¾ to 1 cup of cheese until it’s an ooey, gooey, delightful mess. Set aside.
- Cut the potatoes in half one way, then the other. Mash the insides so that it’s flattened like a plate. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add half of the cheese sauce (or as much as you’d like), then half of the chorizo.
- Enjoy!
Serves: 2
3. BBQ Canned Chicken Sweet Potatoes
Man, I wish I had this recipe in my 20s – it’s so simple to whip up, yet oh-so-satisfying.
Did I mention it’s cheap?
Four thumbs up from both myself AND my husband.
Ingredients:
- 2 sweet potatoes (1 sweet potato per person)
- 2 cans of chicken (1 can per potato)
- 3 tbsps. BBQ sauce
- ¼ cup cheese of choice
- 2 tbsps. red onion, chopped
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Wash the sweet potatoes, and poke a few holes into it with a fork.
- Microwave the sweet potato until it’s tender on the inside (this will depend on the size of your sweet potato – my microwave has a Potato setting and I usually run it through that, twice).
- Open the canned chicken and drain it.
- Mix it together with 1.5 tbsps. of BBQ sauce of choice.
- Cut the sweet potato in half one way, then the other. Mash the insides so that it’s flattened like a plate.
- Add the BBQ chicken and the cheese.
- Bake until the cheese is nice and bubbly and slightly brown, around 8-10 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper, and add the chopped red onions on top.
- Devour.
Serves: 2
4. Cheesy Garlic Broccoli-Stuffed Baked Potatoes
This is by far one of my favorite meatless meals to cook on a Monday.
It’s simple. It’s hardy. It’s satisfying.
Ingredients:
- 4 potatoes
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsps. Butter
- 2 tbsps. Flour
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 12-ounce frozen bag of broccoli florets
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400° Fahrenheit.
- Wash four potatoes, and poke holes throughout with a fork.
- Wrap them in foil, and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour (until they’re soft when you put a fork through them.
- Melt 2 tbsps. butter in a pot over medium heat. Stir in garlic, and cook for a few minutes.
- Whisk in 2 tbsps. flour.
- Whisk in 1 ½ cups milk for several minutes, until it thickens somewhat.
- Turn to low, or simmer.
- Stir in 1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese.
- Add in pepper, to taste.
- Stir in 2 cups broccoli florets, and put a lid on it until broccoli is cooked through (or cook them in the microwave according to directions).
- Slice each potato open, and use a fork to make space in the fluffy part.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Fill each potato with the broccoli cheese mixture.
Serves: 4
Did I make you hungry with these baked potato dinner recipes? I hope so. I hope I've also shown you what's possible for satisfying meals that cost less. Add just one of these to your normal meal rotation, and you'll have dinner on the table relatively quickly, plus make a dent in your grocery budget each week.
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