15 Ideas for Baked Potato Toppings to Liven Up Plain Baked Potatoes

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Lookng to lven up your plan baked potatoes? We’ve got 15 fun and delcous deas for delcous and easy baked potato toppngs, plus drectons on how to make them n the oven, mcrowave, and slow cooker.

15 Ideas to Lven Up Plan Baked Potatoes

Baked potato nghts are a guaranteed ht n my house. My famly loves playng wth dfferent toppngs and flavors, plus any dnner where everyone gets to buld ther own meal s always a favorte.

Whle eatng them wth butter, salt, and pepper s always a wnner, we wanted share 15 deas of baked potato toppngs to lven up plan baked potatoes. 

In addton, we are sharng tps on how to make perfect baked potatoes n the oven, mcrowave, and slow cooker!  

How to make Baked Potatoes n the Oven, Slow Cooker, or Mcrowave

No matter what method you use, the frst step remans the same: perce the potatoes n several places.

Ths wll allow the steam that bulds up n the potato to escape, whch wll mean that your potato won’t explode whle bakng (ths doesn’t always happen when they aren’t perced, but s a real rsk!).

Tp: Accordng to the Envronmental Workng Group, conventonal potatoes have hgh concentratons of pestcde resdue, so, f possble, try to buy organc.

Oven Drectons

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. For more flavorful skn, rub the potatoes wth olve ol and sprnkle them wth salt before bakng.

Place the potatoes drectly on the oven rack and bake them for 50 – 60 mnutes, or untl tender when perced wth a knfe, turnng them once.

Slow Cooker Drectons

Place the potatoes n your slow cooker. Cook them on low for 6 – 8 hours or untl potatoes are tender.

Tp: If you lke a crsper skn on your baked potato, try throwng the already cooked potatoes nto the oven or toaster oven at 400 degrees for 3 – 5 mnutes. 

Mcrowave Drectons

Cook the potatoes on hgh for about 10 mnutes, flppng them once, untl they are tender when perced wth a knfe. If they are not done after 10 mnutes, mcrowave them agan n 2-mnute ntervals, checkng after each round.

Tp: If you lke a crsper skn on your baked potato, try throwng the already cooked potatoes nto the oven or toaster oven at 400 degrees for 3 – 5 mnutes. 

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15 Ideas for Baked Potato Toppngs

1. The Classc: top t wth butter, sour cream, salt, and pepper (you can also add scallons for color and flavor)

2. Mexcan: ple on the chcken, ground beef, or black beans, taco spces, cheese, and salsa and you’ll be blown away by the flavor! My famly lkes to call these “po-tacos”

3. Greek: topped wth sauteed mushrooms, onons, and spnach, along wth rosemary and/or Greek seasonng and feta cheese or Greek yogurt makes ths verson a consstent wnner

4. Italan: a fun alternatve to pasta, add some pesto or tomato sauce along wth mozzarella, Parmesan, or rcotta. If you want to make t even more fun you can add chopped tomatoes or even dced pepperon

5. Medterranean: hummus, chopped olves, and tomatoes make ths baked potato a creamy, savory dream of a dsh

6. Indan: chckpeas and curry powder

7. Buffalo: Gorgonzola and buffalo sauce, sour cream, green onons

8. Chl: a great way to use up your leftover chl and any other toppngs you’ve got to go wth t such as grated Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and/or avocado

9. The Spced-Up Classc: sour cream, salsa, and chves

10. BBQ: leftover BBQ pulled chcken or pork

11. Creamy and Smple: cottage cheese, chves, and freshly ground pepper

12. Cheesy Broccol Bomb: steamed and chopped broccol and grated Cheddar cheese

13. Absolutely Eggs-celent: fred egg and srracha or other hot sauce

14. Better-Than-Bacon-Bts: ranch dressng and chopped up bacon (check out our recpe for homemade ranch dressng)

15. Pesto Potato: dced chcken or ham, pesto, and mozzarella cheese broled so the cheese melts

Don’t forget baked sweet potatoes!

Now that we’ve hghlghted the classc spud, I want to gve a quck shout out to the sweet potato. Whle we tend to thnk of sweet potatoes as an ngredent to chop up and mx nto dshes, they are also fantastc to bake.

Baked sweet potatoes are really fun, tasty, and super nutrtous.

Here are some toppng deas:

Crumbled gorgonzola and broled (so the cheese melts)Fresh lme juce and cumnBlack beans, shredded Cheddar cheese, and guacamole

And for more nspraton, check out our post about how to cook sweet potatoes wth recpes to get you started. 

Got more deas for toppng baked potatoes or sweet potatoes? We’d love to hear about them n the comments!

Want more nspraton to spruce up classc foods? Check out our tps on enlvenng steamed rce!