OMG guys I am in love with these potatoes!! I think I could literally eat them everyday 😉 We had my in-laws over for some burgers on the grill so I whipped these delicious spicy cheesy bacon and ranch potatoes up to go as a side dish and everybody loved them.. Makes 6 servings at 5 smart points each.
Spicy cheesy bacon & ranch potatoes
3-5PP, 5SP blue & green, 3SP purple
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb 680g mini potatoes (mine pictured below)
- 1/2 Tbsp oil
- 1 Tbsp franks hot sauce
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- Salt & pepper just a dash
- 2 Tbsp light cream cheese softened
- 3 Tbsp light ranch dressing
- 2/3 cup light shredded cheese
- 5 cooked slices low point bacon I use Oscar Mayer center cut
- Green onion
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F, spray a 9 inch dish with cooking spray.
- Cut your mini potatoes in half, mix with oil, franks, paprika and salt & pepper.
- Spoon into dish and bake in oven for 50 minutes, turning every 10 minutes.
- Mix your softened cream cheese and 2 Tbsp of ranch dressing (leaving 1T aside) together. Drizzle over the potatoes (I piped mine out of a small zip lock to spread easier)
- Sprinkle shredded cheese on top. Crumble your cooked bacon and diced green onion on top of cheese then return to oven for 10 minutes.
- Drizzle with remaining 1Tbsp ranch dressing.
- Makes 6 servings at 3-5 personal points depending on your 0PP foods, 5 smart points per serving blue & green, 3sp on purple, 5 points plus.
- Nutritional info per serving.. Calories 172..Fat 7.6g..Saturated fat 1.5g...Carbs 18.8g...Fiber 1.8g...Sugar 1.8g...Protein 7.9g
23 Comments
Just had these potatoes for tea and they are devine. Thankyou love your two sites only trouble is were in nz and cant get some of the ingredients you mention
Glad you enjoyed the potatoes Janice, I knwo it’s hard when you visit a blog that is run in another country, All the ingredients I use can be purchased in Canada or U.S and that is where most of my traffic that visits my blog is from, it would be like if I visited a food blog run by someone in NZ, I would find it difficult to get their products 🙁 Hope there are enough recipes for you to enjoy still 🙂
How big is a serving?
1/6th of the dish, I did not weigh it out, I just divided into 6 equal servings, as long as you keep them similar size all should be good with points
Is the dish 9 x9″? Or a 9X 13″ dish?
Thank you 🙂
It’s a 9 inch dish as mentioned in post 🙂 If I just say 8 inch or 9 inch then you know it’s a 9×9, I will say in recipe if it’s a 9×13..
Can’t wait to try this dish! Do you think a yogurt dressing (such as Bolthouse) would be an OK substitute for the ranch dressing, or would a yogurt-based product not work for this? Thanks!
Hi Lisa, I think that dressing will work great, hope you enjoy them 🙂
These were so,so good! Thank you!
You are very welcome, glad you enjoyed! 🙂
Made these potatoes and they came out delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Your welcome! Glad you enjoyed them 🙂
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You are a genius! These are amazing!
Hi Sara, thank you 🙂 so glad you enjoyed them!
Are the potatoes fresh, frozen or refrigerated?
Fresh mini potatoes 🙂
Hi! Is the bacon cooked beforehand?
Hi Nicole, yes the bacon is pre-cooked
New to your stuff but really liking the ideas. Haven’t tried anything yet. I’m super new. Lol
I love that you put the points per serving wich is awesome.
I have a question tho
You say makes X amount of servings and each serving is X amount of pts. What if i happen to use a different size dish to make it in. How would I know the correct size for a serving?
For example is a serving a cup or by weight?
Thanks a ton.
Have a great day .
Hi AJ, generally a serving is by weight, so if you use a different size dish I would just try to cut into 6 equal servings and you can weigh a few to make sure you are keeping them about he same size .. I hope you enjoy the recipes
Hi! Love this recipe – are you Canadian? I see you are using PC potatoes, however I am struggling to find “Center cut” bacon here! Where did you purchase from? I can’t find Oscar Meyer here in Toronto!
Hi Adriana, yes I am in Ontario, unfortunately we don’t have center cut bacon here, well at least not for the same points as the one they carry in the U.S, pre-covid I would cross the border monthly for a grocery shop as I am only 45 minutes away.