Grilled Hasselback Potatoes Stuffed with Bacon & Smothered in Cheese
For many people hasselback style potatoes are nothing new. Make some slices in a potato, bake, and it magically fans out into an impressive looking spud, making for a brilliant addition to any meal (like with my Kale with Sun Dried Tomatoes & Onions recipe) But for all the hasselback recipes out there, most have the spud baking in the oven and I’ve also never seen a recipe where the potatoes are stuffed.
Well enough with that nonsense. Time to fire up the grill, stuff some hasselback potatoes with bacon, and smoke those suckers until their fully cooked.
Much like my mesquite smoked quiche, this recipe isn’t lacking in manly heart clogging gluttonous. But everything in moderation is still healthy…even for you ladies. Plus you can always catch up on eating your veggies later. So prepare and enjoy these bacon/cheesy spuds with some red meat off the bone and a massively bold red wine or brew.
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The Necessities:*
- Russet Potatoes
- Bacon (cut into large chunks)
- Shredded cheese
- Sour cream
- Fresh chives (diced)
- Butter (melted)
- Salt and pepper
- Mesquite or hickory woodchips
*No quantities have been listed as this is a recipe where one can use as little or as much of the ingredients as desired.
The Directions:
- Set up your grill for indirect grilling, preheat to medium-high, and presoak your woodchips (if necessary).
- Wash your potatoes and pat dry. Using a large knife, make thin slices across and about 5/6 of the way through each potato.
- Lay a piece of aluminum foil over the grate in the cool zone of the grill. Place the potatoes on the foil. Drizzle with each potato with as much butter as desired and season with salt and pepper.
- Add your woodchips to the coals, smokerbox, etc, and close the lid. Continue to add woodchips as necessary to keep a constant flow of smoke over the potatoes.
- As the potatoes are doing their thing on the grill, begin cooking the bacon in a frying pan on the stove over medium heat. Be sure to remove the bacon after it’s partially cooked (about half way through).
- If you like, save the bacon grease and drizzle over the potatoes on the grill.
- When the potatoes begin to “fan out” it’s time to make the magic happen. Carefully slip a hunk of bacon into each slit of the potato like so and continue to cook.
- Once the potatoes and bacon are fully cooked (use a knife poke test), coat the potatoes with heaping helping of shredded cheese.
- Cook until the cheese has fully melted and remove the potatoes from the grill. Don’t forget to save room in your stomach for the cheese on the foil…simply delicious.
- Top the potatoes with sour cream and fresh chives. Serve with an obnoxiously sized steak and you’re good to go.
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Actually I’m probably the only one who heard about hasselback potatoes only a couple of weeks ago! They always look very attractive. Yours not only look beautiful, but must taste heavenly! I must try making them one day (they are not very popular in Europe, so I hope I impress some people…).
What do you mean by catching up on eating veggies??? Potato is a vegetable, my husband’s favourite
Isn’t it every man’s favorite?
Oh my! I’m making this for my husband ASAP! Looks incredibly delicious!
This recipe just keeps getting better and better! I just have to give it a try and I don’t care how cold it is outside!
That’s the right attitude. Rain, sleet, or snow. Fire up the grill!
Good God Man! This is just awesome. Really friggin’ awesome.
And it tasted good too.
Potatoes and cheese, what could be better, i shall send john out to fire up the grill! c
Another reason to fire up the grill…every man’s dream
Oh do I love a baked potato – and this one tops them all! With each picture I just got hungrier and hungrier! Fantastic!
Glad I could tempt your stomach.
Oh my! Crispy but tender potato with bacon, cheese, sour cream!! Its going to be a long night..
Whoa. I like that this is smoked. I support this, wholeheartedly.
I love me some hasselbacks and these look perfect. I’ve never grilled them and I can’t think of a good reason why. I think this: “obnoxiously sized steak” was the best advice in the whole post though.
LOL. and I did enjoy one with the potato!
I’m like Sissi, up until a few weeks ago I hadn’t heard of hassleback potatoes either. They sound delicious but the grill is put away for the winter. I’ll make them in the oven for now.
Too bad about the grill, but they should be great in the over nonetheless.
Can you believe I’ve never made hasselback potatoes? I have no idea why, because these look incredible. I’m glad you didn’t skimp on the cheese.
I can’t believe that. I guess they’re #1 on the priority list now eh?
oh my GOSH. We love hasselback potatoes, but the bacon takes them over the top. These look mouthwatering. YUM
Thanks Mary!
Thank you for giving me the recipe that will make me Queen for a day, or even a month, at my house! My husband will go crazy for this. It looks fantastic. So fantastic and so caloric. Holy heck!
I know he’ll enjoy it.
Save the bacon grease and pour over??!! Oh my! I do love this so, so much!! I’ve made hasselback potatoes before, but never to the level you brought this dish!! Fabulous!!
Thanks Linda. It’s not the best thing for ya, but a little flavor never hurt.
I think my husband may fall in love with me all over if I made these. Wow
What a gorgeous potato dish! We used to make one similar to this but flavoured with lemon juice and garlic…so yummy. I love the thin slices, the presentation is great. I may pass on the bacon grease, though!
Man, manly, men recipe, isn’t it? By grill, do you mean outside? I mean, is freezing out there…Never heard of the Hasselback Potatoes, but they sure look delicious…I have to find the way to make these without freezing my butt
Thanks for sharing!
Embrace the cold and the deliciousness of the potato will be yours!
How could anyone resist these potatoes. WOW! Killer good
Wow wow wow, that’s the best potato recipe I’ve seen
Can you believe I’ve never made hasselback potatoes?
That really needs to change!
[...] For the preparation of the potatoes in the Hasselback style check out Ashley’s post over at The Driven Cook or my own preparation of the spud on the grill using smoke by checking out the previous post Grilled Hasselback Potatoes Stuffed with Bacon and Smothered in Cheese. [...]
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