Kidney Recipes

Stephen_Leak

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BAKED POTATO & KIDNEY

If you are cooking this for someone else, don’t tell them what’s in the potato and call it "Baked Potato Surprise".

Serves 1

INGREDIENTS

1 large potato
1 small kidney
½ a rasher of bacon
Butter
Ground pepper to taste.

METHOD

Wash the potato and stab the surface with a fork. Wrap the potato in aluminium foil.

Put it in the top of a preheated oven at 230°C, 450°F, gas mark 8.

Whilst the potato is cooking, remove all the white tubes (called the core) from the middle of the kidney, using a small pair of scissors. Wrap it in the bacon.

After 30 minutes, remove it from the oven. Remove the foil.

Make a star-shaped cut in the top of the potato, and open out the flaps. Dig a kidney-sized hole down to the middle of the potato with a teaspoon. Put a little bit of butter in the bottom of the hole. Push in the bacon wrapped kidney. Season with the pepper. Bury the kidney with as much of the dug out potato as you can. Close the flaps.

If you like your potato crisp on the outside, do not replace the foil.

Put the potato back in the oven and continue to cook for a further 30 minutes.

It is ready when it gives when pressed. (Remember to use oven gloves!)

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

Use a lamb's or pig's kidney.

Add a little bit of English mustard. Add a little bit of parsley.

charliee_3

I was thinking the other day that you never see pork chops with the kidney still in them anymore. These used to be my very favourite thing when I was a child!

not my favourite thing but i was thinking recently that you don't get meat with tubes in it anymore. i remember meat always came with tubes when i was a child... i don't think we had particularly cheap meat or anything... maybe they have managed to breed vascular systems out of farm animals these days??!! also bacon always had little round bones in it...