Mini Pizza Potato Skins

Method12 steps

1. 1

   Step 1: Preheat the oven to 220°C (430°F). Have the ready pizza sauce, grated mozzarella and pepperoni slices ready.

2. 2

   Step 2: Prick each of the eight baby potatoes two or three times with a fork. Arrange them evenly around the edge of the microwave turntable, or in a circle if there is no turntable. Microwave on HIGH for two minutes, then turn them in step 3.

   Uses 8 baby potatoes, about golf-ball size

3. 3

   Step 3: Turn the potatoes from step 2 over. Microwave on HIGH for another two minutes, until just cooked through when pierced; continue as needed for the potatoes and microwave. Remove carefully.

   Uses partly microwaved baby potatoes

4. 4

   Step 4: Cut the cooked potatoes from step 3 in half to make sixteen halves. Scoop out their centers with a teaspoon, leaving a thin layer of potato inside each skin. Reserve the removed cooked potato for another use.

   Uses just-cooked baby potatoes

5. 5

   Step 5: Arrange the sixteen hollow potato skins from step 4 on a baking tray, skin side up.

   Uses hollow potato skins after removing the centers

6. 6

   Step 6: Brush the skins from step 5 with the two tablespoons olive oil, then sprinkle the pinch of salt over them.

   Uses tray of hollow potato skins · 2 tbsp olive oil for brushing the skins · A pinch of salt for the potato skins

7. 7

   Step 7: Bake the brushed skins from step 6 for about ten minutes, until their skins are browned and slightly crisp.

   Check crisp potato skins · 10 minUses brushed and salted potato skins

8. 8

   Step 8: Switch the oven to grill (broiler) mode.

9. 9

   Step 9: Turn the crisp skins from step 7 over so their hollow sides face upwards.

   Uses crisp baked potato skins

10. 10

    Step 10: Distribute the half-cup ready pizza sauce (½ cup) among the sixteen skins from step 9, using about 1½ teaspoons per skin, then top with all the grated mozzarella (1 cup).

    Uses sixteen crisp skins, hollow side up · ½ cup ready pizza sauce · 1 cup grated mozzarella

11. 11

    Step 11: Put three mini pepperoni slices on each of the sixteen filled skins from step 10. Grill (broil) for about three to five minutes, watching closely from three minutes, until the cheese melts and the pepperoni begins to brown.

    Uses sauce-and-cheese filled potato skins · 48 mini pepperoni slices

12. 12

    Step 12: Scatter the optional chopped parsley over the finished potato skins from step 11 and serve immediately, as sixteen small bites for eight appetizer portions.

    Uses finished pepperoni pizza potato skins · Finely chopped parsley, optional garnish