Phyllo Potatoes

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living- Steve Stockton, Amory, Mississippi

Serves 15 people

Categories: Vegetables- Potatoes

Ingredients

  • 6 bacon slices, chopped
  • 1 medium-size yellow onion diced
  • 5 green onions finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 6 large baking potatoes, baked *
  • 1 (8oz.) container sour cream
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/4 tsp. pepper
  • 1 1/2 tsp. soy sauce
  • 10 frozen phyllo pastry sheets, thawed
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine melted
  • Garnished: chopped green onions. green nion curls

Directions

  1. Cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp; remove bacon, and drain on paper towels, reserving 2 Tbsp. drippings in skillet. Set bacon aside.
  2. Saute yellow and green onions in hot dripping in skillet over medium-high heat 5 minutes or until tender. Add garlic; sauté 1 minute.
  3. Scoop out potato pulp, and place in a large bowl. Add sour cream and mash with potato masher. Stir in onion mixture, 1/2 cup butter, bacon, salt pepper and soy sauce.
  4. Brush thawed phyllo sheets with 1/2 cup melted butter. Arrange 5 sheets on bottom of a lightly greased 11 × 15-inch jellyroll pan. Spread with potato mixture; top with remaining 5 phyllo sheets.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden. Cut into squares before serving; garnish, if desired.
    • 1 (22 oz.) pkg. frozen mashed potatoes may be substituted for baked potato pulp. Cook according to package directions.

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