Baked Potato in Foil on Coals recipe for a braai or a barbecue on the grill. Potato with skin on in foil baked on coals with main meal.
Baked Potato in Foil on Coals
The best tasting potato is this foil wrapped potato cooked on the coals with a braai or barbecue on the grill. A simple 3 ingredient side dish to go with any meal. Adding only salt and pepper to taste and a blob of butter to melt into the soft cooked potato inside the skin. Eaten warm is the best idea.
Ingredients.
Just a few ingredients needed for this recipe. in fact 3 ingredient baked on coals potato. (get the full recipe from the attached recipe)
Whole cleaned white potato
Aluminum foil to wrap potato in.
Butter to dot the cooked open potato
Salt and pepper
How To
Wash and clean potato, for the meal. Firstly it would be a side dish for a braai or barbecue on coals. Therefor the coals would of been ready to grill your meat.
Slit the potato with a cross on top before wrapping. Wrap the clean potato in foil about twice, to protect the potato from burning.
Place on the side of the coals where it is not to hot. Cook the potato slowly and turn over now and again so that they are cooked evenly.
How to test if the potato is baked stick with a sharp fork or knife and if potato is soft then they will be done.
Once you unwrap the foil then squeeze the potato with your thumb and finger so that it pushes out the soft cooked potato or cut in half almost through the potato. Leaving the cooked potato in the skin. Dot butter and salt and pepper to taste in the open potato. Serve with your main dish.
Eaten out of the skin is the best potato side dish you can get.
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Baked Potato in Foil on Coals recipe for a braai or a barbecue on the grill. Potato with skin on in foil baked on coals with main meal.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 40 min
- Total Time: 55 min
- Yield: 4
- Category: Side dish
- Method: Grill or Braai & BBQ
Ingredients
4 medium clean white potato (with skin on)
Butter (unsalted or salted)
Salt and pepper (if salted butter is used, then check for taste first)
Aluminum foil (to wrap potato with)
Hot coals for a braai or barbecue.
Instructions
If you are braaiing and have hot coals then make this potato,
Clean and cut the slit on top of the potato skin and wrap the potato twice in foil. To protect them from burning.
When the coals are right, place the foil wrapped potato on the side of the hot coals. (you braai or grill your meat on the hot coals on the grill)
Turn them with a braai tong now and again so they cook evenly. Stick with a braai fork or sharp knife to see if they are soft and cooked. (you can do this through the foil)
When they are soft and your meal is ready, open them up and cut them in half or squeeze them to push the cooked potato out. Then dot them with butter and salt and pepper them to taste. Leave them in their skins. Serve on the plate with your meats and enjoy.
A great tasty side dish.
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