JACKET POTATOES WITH SOUR CREAM

Quantities are to taste.

potatoes
coarse sea salt
sour cream / butter

Potatoes, cleaned.
Prick potatoes with fork.
Pack dry potatoes in oven dish on a layer of coarse salt.
Bake at 180ºC for 45 minutes.
Turn over and bake for another 45 minutes or until soft.
Cut potato diagonally and then across, press on sides for potato to ‘open’.
Keep the salt, you can re-use it a couple of times.
Serve with sour cream and/or butter.

Recipe and photo: Elize de Kock

Note:
Christelle Mitchell Van Emmerik
I finely grate a small onion and squeeze the juice into my sour cream, add some extra lemon juice, salt and pepper.