Chicken Bacon Taco Stuffed Potatoes
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We’ve got these Chicken Bacon Taco Stuffed Potatoes on deck today and they are going to be your new favorite stuffed potato ever! Full of flavor, easy to throw together, and the whole family is gonna love’m! These taters are stuffed with yummy mexican shredded chicken, salsa, and my favorite, bacon!
This week has been just lovely. The weather has been gorgeous, the house has been open, and I’ve been wearing my favorite type of clothes. (Long flowy shirts, jeans, and booties!) My mind has been wandering towards lots of fall recipes to recreate and lighten up, and I’ve spent a lot of time in the kitchen making some delicious stuff! I can’t wait to share all the lightened up comfort dishes that i’ve been working on. I’m so gracious that I lighten up recipes otherwise I’m pretty positive my pants would not like me! Today, I’m thankful that after a full week of working on two-three recipes a day that my favorite pair of jeans still fit. Phew! I’m celebrating with a Iced Cold Brew from Starbucks.. that I had to drive 23 miles to get. Don’t tell Eric, but I’ve been doing this a little bit too often lately. It’s my one vice. Everybody’s got somethin’. We live in a smaller town that does not have a Starbucks and I don’t know how I even live here without it. When I make plans to take a drive to this said town for said overpriced coffee .. I actually go to sleep super excited to wake up, get in the car, and sip on my favorite drink. I need an intervention. It’s fine, I know.
Okay, now that we’ve established that I have a problem let’s get back down to business and what ya’ll actually come here for, huh? Ha! Okay, Chicken Bacon Taco Stuffed Taters, WHAT? Yes. I did that. And it was amazing. It was even better the next day to be completely honest. Eric let me know last night that he liked them even more cold straight outa the fridge the next day. That’s up for debate because Eric literally eats cold leftovers out of the fridge all of the time. He’s savage sometimes. I however reheated mine up in the oven the next day and, yes they were even better.
This recipe is actually inspired by my sweet Mom! When I was tweaking my Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken recipe I went over to her house and asked her if it was okay that I made her the chicken for tacos and salads because if Eric and I had anymore of this recipe at the time we would explode. (I had made it two weeks in a row prior!) She agreed because my mom does not turn down my cookin’ ever! The first night she made tacos as I had suggested, but the next night she stuffed a big ol baked potato with it and she called and told me it was the best thing ever and I had to do it too. So, I ran to the grocery store to get ingredients, and I turned these babies into a double baked potato recipe because, well, if you haven’t noticed I love double baked potato EVERYTHING. See also: Sheperd’s Pie Potato Skins, Turkey Cheddar Broccoli Stuffed Potatoes. I also added some extra fun stuff like cream cheese and salsa and Man, they were good. Like, real good. I’m a huge baked potato enthusiast and I really think this might be my new favorite way. So, go on ahead and make these soon because you’ll just love’m. I know it!
In the kitchen we will…
Wash and bake 3 medium sized potatoes, salt them with a bit of kosher salt, and spray’m with a bit of cooking spray. Poke a few holes in’m then throw’m in the oven for about an hour at 400 degrees or until tender.
Let’m cool off for a few minutes and grab a kitchen towel and cradle your lil hot potato with it when cutting in half because potatoes are hot! hot! hot!
Scoop out their insides into a big bowl.
Yes, I know that sounds just the tiniest bit creepy… but we are talking about a potato here.
Add bacon, cream cheese, sour cream, and some kosher salt.
I used real bacon bits here. You can most definitely use some center cut bacon strips and fry’m up, but because the bacon part’a this recipe was actually a completely random idea in the middle of doing this. I didn’t have any fried up and decided real bacon bits would do just fine.
P.S. I should always have bacon ready to go because when is it ever not a good idea?
Mash it all together with a masher thing-a-ma-bob.
I’ll be honest, the salsa was also an after thought. I’m so glad I think of these things. This shows just a lil because I wasn’t sure…. but I added probably another half cup and it was goOOoooOOd.
I use my homemade salsa recipe because I love it more than anything in the world and honestly, I can’t think of a time when it’s not ready to go in my fridge anymore. It also takes all of maybe 5 minutes to make. However, You can use whatever type of salsa you’d like, but make sure you like it because it’ll affect the flavor of these taters in a big way.
Now, mash it all together.
Stir in some Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken!
Okay, you can also use regular ol diced/shredded chicken, but add a packet of taco seasoning to the potato mix. It’ll give it some of the same flavor, but I really do recommend makin’ a batch of the chicken because it’s the bees knees and it’ll make these taters extra special. Which in turn will make your life extra special.
I skipped the picture of just the chicken and potatoes mashed up, because well, I won’t tell ya what I think it looks like all by it’s lonesome. It doesn’t matter too much, because it’s real tasty and in the end, that’s all that matters to me. Get to stuffin’ these taters evenly just as much as you possibly can. They will look over full and they are meant to look like that. The more the merrier! Add some shredded cheese on top of each of’m because it’ll cover up the not-so-pretty lookin’ potato/chicken mixture… oh, and because it’s real yummy!
Here’s another photo of the same step just because I thought it was pretty.
Pop’m back into a 400 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes.
And then they will look a lil sumin’ like this here.
And then dress’m up in some of your favorite taco toppings! I did just a few drizzles of sour cream all over, generously threw some chopped green onions, and diced tomatoes all over it.
Hi pretty potato.
Make these up for Taco Tuesday, Football Sunday, or Stuff your face Saturday? (That’s a real thing, right? I am definitely not speaking from experience.) In any case, make these soon because your belly will just be thrilled with ya. I promise.
Let me know when ya make’m!
With love from my kitchen to yours,
Star
Chicken Bacon Taco Stuffed Taters
Ingredients
- 3 medium baking potatoes about 10 ounces each uncooked
- 1 cup mexican shredded chicken
- 2 oz light cream cheese
- 1/2 cup salsa homemade or your favorite kind
- 1/2 cup real bacon bits
- 1/4 cup light sour cream
- 1/2 cup reduced fat shredded colby jack or cheddar
- 1 tsp salt
- cherry tomatoes, diced garnish, optional
- green onions, chopped garnish, optional
- additional light sour cream garnish, optional
- black olives, sliced garnish, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wash potatoes. Place on sheet pan, lightly spray with cooking spray, sprinkle kosher salt, and poke a few holes in them. Bake for about an hour or until tender.
- Allow potatoes to cool for a few minutes before handling. Take each potato cradle with a dish towel and cut in half with a sharp serrated knife. Scoop out the potato insides into a large mixing bowl. Take care to not break the skin and leave a thin lining of potato for support.
- In the large mixing bowl add cream cheese, sour cream, bacon bits, salsa, and salt to the potatoes. Mash all together. Stir in Mexican Shredded Chicken until combined. Fill each potato evenly and generously. Top evenly with the shredded cheese. Return to oven for 15-20 minutes.
- Optional: Add favorite taco toppings to garnish and add even more fun flavor!
Reached WAY back into your archives for this one… Your recipes are great and *were* great, even way back in 2017. We really loved this tonight. It’ll be on repeat here for sure!
I made your Mexican Chicken last night and decided to make these tonight. This was a huge hit! I ate one portion and my husband ate THREE. He said he wasn’t that hungry but couldn’t stop eating it! Thanks for the great recipes!
I don’t usually review a recipe if I didn’t make it exactly like the recipe says, but I thought I’d share this variation…Although I would’ve loved the recipe as is, I have a picky husband and son, so I decided to make these a bit different to suit their tastes. I used extra sour cream and omitted the cream cheese, and instead of salsa and taco seasoning I used 1 1/2 tbsp of ranch seasoning. My son loves anything ranch, and even my husband likes the cheddar/bacon/ranch combo. It was a huge hit!! We probably ate more than the actual serving size, but it was just so darn good! My husband took the only one that was leftover to work and warmed it up in the toaster oven. He said it was better than he expected the second time around. Thank you for providing recipes that can be easily tweaked to make picky eaters happy 🙂
Love your recipes!! Probably dumb question but when you say one stuffed potato do you mean one whole (meaning two halves) or just one half?
Love your recipes!! Probably dumb question but when you say one stuffed potato do you mean one whole (meaning two halves) or just one half?
Star, these were just fantastic! Such yummy flavor. Oooof, I’m stuffed.
Star, these were just fantastic! Such yummy flavor. Oooof, I’m stuffed.
You are for real my recipe go to person even if I’m not on weight watchers anymore. I so appreciate the calorie calculations and having a place to go for good food inspiration! I still focus on high protein low fat so when you’re posting to IG you need to totally add myfitnesspal hash tags, high protein, low fat etc! I’m sure you’ve sacarificed many hours on end and the result is helping people like me not have as much guess work when it comes to healthy ideas to stay on track & that’s something I really appreicate! Thank you! Can’t wait to make these and possibly swap the taco theme for some buffalo sauce 🙂 happy Easter!
You’re so sweet. Thank you so much for all the kind words! It’s a labor of love- I love creating and sharing! I hope you had a lovely Easter!
You are for real my recipe go to person even if I’m not on weight watchers anymore. I so appreciate the calorie calculations and having a place to go for good food inspiration! I still focus on high protein low fat so when you’re posting to IG you need to totally add myfitnesspal hash tags, high protein, low fat etc! I’m sure you’ve sacarificed many hours on end and the result is helping people like me not have as much guess work when it comes to healthy ideas to stay on track & that’s something I really appreicate! Thank you! Can’t wait to make these and possibly swap the taco theme for some buffalo sauce 🙂 happy Easter!
You’re so sweet. Thank you so much for all the kind words! It’s a labor of love- I love creating and sharing! I hope you had a lovely Easter!
I made these for dinner last night with the taco seasoning and chicken and they were to die for.
Everyone in the family loved them – daughter had one for breakfast, husband took two to work for lunch. They are absolutely delicious and will be added to our rotation.
Thank you so much for what you do!
I made these for dinner last night with the taco seasoning and chicken and they were to die for.
Everyone in the family loved them – daughter had one for breakfast, husband took two to work for lunch. They are absolutely delicious and will be added to our rotation.
Thank you so much for what you do!
You are amazing! Thank you kindly for sharing!!
You are amazing! Thank you kindly for sharing!!
This. Is. So. Good. I’m not even a baked potato person normally, but I wanted to shake things up so I decided to try this. Ended up loving it. Didn’t have time to make the Mexican Shredded Chicken so I shredded some rotisserie chicken and it still tasted great. Plus it was a good beginner project for my instapot (the “baked” potatoes turned out great). Thanks for the great recipe!
So happy you enjoyed them!
This. Is. So. Good. I’m not even a baked potato person normally, but I wanted to shake things up so I decided to try this. Ended up loving it. Didn’t have time to make the Mexican Shredded Chicken so I shredded some rotisserie chicken and it still tasted great. Plus it was a good beginner project for my instapot (the “baked” potatoes turned out great). Thanks for the great recipe!
So happy you enjoyed them!
Hi Star.
I just found your site.
Love looking through your recipes!
I’m thinking of starting WW and have never cooked much, but you make it seem simple.
Can these be wrapped up and frozen?
Just curious.
Thanks ☺
Kimberly
Hi Star.
I just found your site.
Love looking through your recipes!
I’m thinking of starting WW and have never cooked much, but you make it seem simple.
Can these be wrapped up and frozen?
Just curious.
Thanks ☺
Kimberly
Love these so much! Why do you think the points did not change with Freestyle?
Honestly, I’m not really sure. My guess is that it didn’t use enough chicken? I’m going to re-calculate them just to be sure. I’m so happy you enjoy’m!
Love these so much! Why do you think the points did not change with Freestyle?
Honestly, I’m not really sure. My guess is that it didn’t use enough chicken? I’m going to re-calculate them just to be sure. I’m so happy you enjoy’m!
These are so yummy, the flavors are great! Thank you for sharing this recipe. It has a spot on my regular dinner rotation now.
So glad to hear that! Thanks for stopping by to let me know!
These are so yummy, the flavors are great! Thank you for sharing this recipe. It has a spot on my regular dinner rotation now.
So glad to hear that! Thanks for stopping by to let me know!
I just made these for dinner tonight and OMG they are amazing. We had leftover chicken from dinner last night(we made your slow cooker Mexican chicken, also amazing) so we made these tonight. I thought surely I would need two servings to be full but just one was so filling! Thanks for another great recipe!
I thought the exact same thing when I was making them for the first time. One potato shell? There’s no way that’s enough! and I figured I’d have to go back to the drawing board and make them again to get the points down, but the real kicker was that Eric was full after just one (he who never stops eating! ha!) I’m so happy you enjoyed both recipes. I just love both!
I just made these for dinner tonight and OMG they are amazing. We had leftover chicken from dinner last night(we made your slow cooker Mexican chicken, also amazing) so we made these tonight. I thought surely I would need two servings to be full but just one was so filling! Thanks for another great recipe!
I thought the exact same thing when I was making them for the first time. One potato shell? There’s no way that’s enough! and I figured I’d have to go back to the drawing board and make them again to get the points down, but the real kicker was that Eric was full after just one (he who never stops eating! ha!) I’m so happy you enjoyed both recipes. I just love both!