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Potato Bites.

You can have Potato Bites using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Potato Bites

1. You need of POTATOS.
2. It's 18 of to 20 small golf ball sized red potatos..
3. It's 1/4 cup of cream, heavy, light or half and half.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of sharp cheddar,cheese, shredded.
5. Prepare 2 tbsp of cream cheese.
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter, salted or unsalted at room temperature.
7. It's 1/4 cup of romano cheese, grated.
8. It's 1 tbsp of Italian four cheese blend, shredded.
9. It's 4 of slices of bacon, cooked until very crisp, drained and crumbled.
10. You need 2 of sliced green onions.
11. Prepare 1 of garlic clove, minced.
12. Prepare 1/4 tsp of pepper and salt to taste.
13. You need 1/4 tsp of cajun seasoning.
14. Prepare of FRYING.
15. It's of canola or peanut oil for frying, about 4 cups.
16. It's of TOPPINGS.
17. You need 1/4 lb of sliced italian four cheese blend.
18. It's 1 of recipe roasted jalapenos, recipe attached in direction step #5.
19. Prepare of GARNISH.
20. Prepare 1/2 cup of or more sour cream.

Potato Bites instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425. Prick potatoes with a skewer and place on baking pan in single layer and bake until tender about 20 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. The cooler they are the easier to hollow them out..
2. Carefully cut thin slice of top of potatoes and scoop out as much potatoes pulp as possible but leaving a sturdy shell. Put potato pulp in a bowl and mash with cream, cheeses, pepper, green onion,butter, garlic, and cajun seasoning fold in bacon.
3. In a Dutch oven or deep heavy pan heat oil to 350. Fry hollowed out potatoes shells until golden and crisp.about 4 to 5 minutes. Do not crowd.. Remove to a rack to drain..
4. Fill each potato with mashed potatoes mixture..Put a piece of the sliced four cheese blend on top..
5. Top.the cheese with a slice or piece of the roasted jalapeno. Recipe attached below https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/350333-roasted-parmesan-garlic-jalapeno-rounds.
6. Preheat oven to 425. Spray a baking pan large enough to hold potatoes in one layer.. Place filled potatoes on prepared pan and bake until hot about 15 to 18 minutes. Serve hot with sour cream.