About the festival as a source of inspiration:
First of all I want to explain why this festival was a great experience. First of all the bill was filled with superb post-rock/-metal minded bands. Maybeshewill, The end of the Ocean, Ornaments, Year of no light, Amenra, … to name some. They all played fantastic sets with a great light show and a perfect sound! Those interested in the genre: scroll down and find a spotify list where you can explore some of the named bands. Besideds the nearly perfect approach towards music the festival comes with a verry laid back atmosphere with eye for attention.
The picture above is just one example. You see the band Ilydaen playing in the middle of the crowd. This was the first gig I attended at the festival and it even wasn’t the first thing that charmed me over there. Right before that moment I entered the festival and while I was looking for the entrance (I was already on the festival ground without being aware…) I saw the festival chef walking down the festival ground with a large package minced meat. They spent the whole afternoon rolling meat balls to serve at six o’ clock. Not only did they serve fresh cooked meals they also had a foodtruck with superb stuffed potatoes. I had one with bacon and clove spiced apple sauce. Suddenly potatoes seemed pretty attractive and the first sparkles for this ricotta stuffed potatoes were formed. 
Ricotta stuffed potatoes:
Since my wife isn’t fond of potatoes I mostly made the same succes formula over and over again: Baked rosemary potatoes… Delicious but knowing those stuffed potatoes were delicious I wanted to try out something different. Since the flavours of the recipe I tasted at the dunk festival wouldn’t combine well with the Salmon and Zucchini casserole, I had to look for something different. I had the ingredients in the picture above at home and I thought they would form a great match.
And I was right. The combination was delicious. My wife used the filling as an addition to the salmon and skipped the potatoes… Guess she’ll never be a good girl as far as potatoes are involved… I on the other hand was amused by the result (I’m not a though eater anyway so maybe you need to try for yourself).
As you can see the potato at the bottom has a little bit of herb crust on it! It’s was a great addition if you ask me. I will add them to all potatoes next time! The result got me motivated to make more of them and try out other combinations! The ricotta stuffed potatoe combines well with the Fig glazed chicken I shared a while ago. If you are aware of other great stuffed potatoe recipes you think I need to know about I hope you share them over here or at the Facebook page.
Ingredients
- 2 Potatoes
- 80 Gr. ricotta cheese
- Dried Garlic & pepper flakes
- 1 Lime
- 2 spring onions
- Basil Leaves
Instructions
Cook the potatoes with skin on for a half hour.
While cooking the potatoes you have some time to make the ricotta filling. Start by mixing the ricotta cheese with a tbsp. of garlic & pepper flakes, finely sliced basil leaves and spring onions.
Grill the lime and squeeze out the juices (this will make them a little bit sweeter).
Cut the cooked potatoes in half and spoon out the heart of the potatoe. Replace it with the Ricotta stuffing.
Put the potatoes over indirect fire at 180°C for about 15 minutes. They will look like the potatoes in the following picture when ready!
I can eat potatoes everyday, so any recipe with potatoes is my favorite:)
Glad you like them more than my wife haha! Have a nice meal 😉
I have been kind of burnt out on potatoes lately, but this recipe sounds really yummy! I love ricotta cheese!
Thanks for taking the time to comment 😉 maybe you could try the ricotta stuffing with the salmon and skip the potatoes like my wife :p
I really like using the ricotta with these potatoes.
Thank you!
I love the sound of this side dish Simon. We love potatoes and I’m always searching for new ways to prepare them
I’d like to see your best Ange 😉
Oh two of my favorite ingredients put together! This looks like bbq perfection with a fancy twist 🙂 Can’t wait to try them out–thanks for sharing!!
You are welcome! I hope you like them 😉
You wouldn’t have to try hard to sell me on these. Potatoes and cheese is in my DNA. I have to say, though, I’ve never thought of pairing applesauce with potato! That sounds interesting!
Yeah it was Indeed! Especially with the cloves…
Hey Simon! I came here looking for your Chicken curry recipe when I found this instead. Darn!! I wish I would have seen it a week ago. My hubby thawed out a whole container of ricotto and then we didn’t make the recipe we intended. Well, we had to figure out what to do with the ricotto — couldn’t refreeze. Anyway, we ended up making a filling for ravioli but this recipe would have been idea.
Hey Marisa, thanks for stopping by the curry recipe was a test! I was in doubt and decided to save my nerves since I was looking after the boys and didn’t photograph the session. Result… Best curry I ever made and no pics to post haha… Now I need to make it again. How sad haha. Wish you had seen this earlier it was delicious but who am I to tell 😉