Toss The Tortillas — Tacos Are Heartier As Baked Potatoes

It's a good thing Taco Tuesday comes around once a week because tacos are pretty incredible. They're fun to eat, easy to make, and you can put just about anything you want in them. But no matter how delicious a meal is, sometimes it's a good idea to shake up the normal routine and try something different. The next time you are putting together a taco bar, consider ditching those tortillas and bake up some potatoes for a unique twist on this Tuesday night favorite. 

Tortillas make tacos a perfect handheld meal, but baked potatoes will give you a heartier alternative, especially if you go for sweet potato. Healthline reports that both corn and flour tortillas have less than 3 grams of fiber per serving, while a cup of skin-on baked sweet potato offers 6.6 grams, per Healthline, making them more filling. But even white potatoes are heartier, having famously landed in the top place on the 1995 Satiety Index of Common Foods, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

To pull this amazing meal hack off, bake potatoes like you normally would, incorporating all the techniques that make them taste better. Wash and dry your spuds, season the skins, and follow the rest of our genius tips for making the best baked potato of your life. While they are baking, you'll have plenty of time to prep your taco fillings. As you probably already know, baked potatoes are one of the most versatile foods out there, which means you can use just about any type of taco filling you want.  

You can fill a taco with just about anything, even potatoes. And when you use a baked potato as your vehicle instead of a tortilla, you've got two different ways you can serve them. If you plan to go with a single main ingredient, like ground beef simmered in spicy taco sauce or spicy pork carnitas, consider going with a twice-baked potato taco. Twice baked spuds are easy to make (and twice as tasty), and you can do almost all of the work ahead of time. This recipe simply involves baking the potatoes before filling them, and then popping them in the oven a second time once you've added the other ingredients.

If you don't want to go the twice-baked route, you can go with a traditional baked potato, split it open, and fill it with your taco fillings. With this option, you can really have fun with it and create a whole taco bar where any guests can serve themselves. Chorizo, ground beef, grilled veggies, black beans, pollo asado, and al pastor all make great tacos, and your add-on options are endless: sour cream, taco sauce, cheese sauce, shredded cheese, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, jalapeños — the world is your oyster!

In addition to offering a wide variety of fillings for your baked potato taco night, you can offer a choice of potato. Serve classic russets for a traditional take, or switch it up with sweet potatoes for an even more unique (and fiber-filled) twist on a taco. Your guests can have their tacos exactly the way they want them, and with this clever tortilla swap on your next Taco Tuesday, you can rest assured that everyone will stay full.