These Tuna Stuffed Baked Potatoes are an easy weeknight dinner that kids and adults both love! Served with a side salad, it's the perfect easy dinner! Creamy, cheesy and delicious!
Stuffed Baked Potatoes
When I first got out of college and moved to an apartment in St. Louis, it was hard to find time to cook dinner. You're getting used to a full time job, new responsibilities and in my case, a 30 minute commute each way.
By the time I got home, I just wanted to eat. I didn't want to cook. I din't want to even think about cooking. Luckily there was a Wendy's a couple blocks from my house.
I lived on their stuffed baked potatoes. Oh, and frosties, of course, because I was in my 20's and could eat whatever I wanted.
But those stuffed baked potatoes saved me. I think I usually got broccoli (do they even still have that?) or just the sour cream and chives. So good.
Cheesy Tuna Stuffed Baked Potato
Fast forward some 40 years and I still love a good stuffed baked potato. The potato is the perfect vessel. It not only holds and contains the food, but it just tastes so good.
This stuffed baked potato is so easy to make, and it's pure comfort food. Perfect for a Friday night, when you're tired from a hard week, and you need a comforting, cheesy and easy dinner.
I think I have a new motto - cheesy and easy dinner.
With a side salad you have a perfectly respectable dinner, with practically no effort at all.
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Cheesy Tuna Stuffed Baked Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4 russet potatoes
- ¾ cup cheddar cheese finely shredded
- ¼ cup milk
- 6 ounce tuna canned, drained
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 green onion thinly sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Scrub and pierce the potatoes in several places with a fork. Place in the oven and bake for about an hour.
- Remove from the oven and cut in half lengthwise. Scoop out the flesh, leaving enough on the skin for the potato to hold it's shape.
- Put the potato flesh in a bowl and add ½ cup of the cheese, the milk, the tuna, sour cream and green onions. Mash it all together.
- Mound the potato mixture back into the potato and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
- Put them back on a baking sheet and bake for about 10-15 minutes or until heated through.
Notes
Nutrition
This post was originally published in 2012 and updated in 2019 to add a recipe card. New photos coming soon!
Taryn says
We love doing stuffed baked potatoes for dinner. This was such a fun option!
Pam Greer says
It is a fun option!
wilhelmina says
This is a great way to switch up dinnertime!
Pam Greer says
I agree!
Kevin says
These are some tasty baked potatoes!
CC11 says
Hubby would love this
Jenna says
These sound (and look) great!! I've used bacon before in twice baked potatoes, but I love the twist of tuna! I bet it's a lot easier on the stomach, while still super tasty.
Natasha Price says
Really yummy potatoes stuffed with tuna and melted cheese, nice!
Designs by Gollum says
Pam, these potatoes look out of this world. HOpe you have a sunny Sunday! XX00
grace says
i agree--why a slow cooker? a potato is something i've never considered baking in one of those, but to each her own. i like your idea of a unique stuffing material, if not the actual stuffing material itself. 🙂
Lyndsey says
Looks like a great meal to me. It just occured to me that that is why it took me so long to get a slow cooker...it was all those awful meals that used to come out of the crockpot that all tasted the same, and I didn't enjoy them when I was a kid! So I need this cookbook! 😀
Marjie says
I like Beth Hensperger's bread machine cookbook, so I'd surely buy her slow cooker cookbook if I had one! I agree that you don't need a crock pot for baked potatoes. They cook well enough in the oven.
Big Dude says
I know I would be all over that.
KarenP says
I have that book but have never noticed this recipe (probably because it seemed silly to me to do baked potatoes in the crockpot). I may have to give your oven version a try!
Betsy from Tennessee says
Sounds wonderful, Pam... That is a pretty healthy meal, especially if I use the 2% shredded cheese and also the fat-free sour cream.... Thanks for the recipe... I'll try it.
Hugs,
Betsy
lostpastremembered says
Love this recipe... nothing better than cheese and potatoes with a little tuna melt surprise!
Joanne says
Sigh. Cheese. that's totally what I want all the time, covering everything. Looks delicious!
Carolina says
I just realized I dreamt about baked potatoes last night. Very uncanny coincidence?
These look really good.
Kat says
I am going to have to try this one. Thanks. Seems like things would go a lot quicker without the crockpot, but I get that it did come from a crockpot recipe book
Barbara says
Re dishwashers: I empty everything on the counter. Is this a girl thing do you suppose?
Love stuffed potatoes. Any kind and with anything.