Baltic Stuffed Potatoes

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 large baking potatoes, washed and dried
• salt and pepper
• 3/4 ounce butter
• 4 shallots, peeled and finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
• 7 ounces wild mushrooms, wiped and dried
• 3 1/2 fluid ounces sour cream
• 3 teaspoons fresh tarragon, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 pierce the potatoes and bake them for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until cooked.
• 3 remove from the oven.
• 4 when cool enough to handle, halve them and coop the potato flesh out into a bowl, leaving 3/4 inch shells.
• 5 season the shells with salt and pepper and keep to one side.
• 6 in a small saute pan, melt the butter and fry the shallots, garlic and mushrooms until slightly colored, about 10 minutes.
• 7 mash the potato pulp well, adding the sauteed mushrooms, sour cream and tarragon.
• 8 season to taste and mix thoroughly.
• 9 stuff the mixture back into the potato shells, piling it high.
• 10 bake in the same hot oven until the potatoes are golden in color, about 15 to 20 minutes.