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Phil Vickery's Twice Filled Jacket Potatoes With Smokey Beans | This Morning

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Presenter / show

  • Phil Vickery on This Morning (segment on twice-filled jacket potatoes with smoky beans).

Ingredients (with quantities if stated)

Smoky beans

  • 1 onion
  • Garlic: “a bit” (optional — “you don’t need the garlic”)
  • Pancetta or streaky bacon (sliced)
  • Tomatoes (uses chopped tomatoes / “sliced… tomatoes”)
  • Tomato paste: “a touch” (to “cut the richness”)
  • Worcestershire sauce: “a bit”
  • Water (to loosen/cook down)
  • Stock cube: optional (“if you want”; he tends to add one)
  • Butter beans: two kinds, drained
    • Homemade note: soak overnight ~8 hours; expect some skins may remain
    • Substitution note: he mentions using lentils as an alternative (exact substitution ratio not stated)
    • Family variation: beans in vinegar; mum also uses black treacle (not specified for this exact recipe)

Twice-filled jacket potatoes

  • Jacket potatoes (baked; number not specified)
  • Butter: “a little bit” (for a normal version)
  • Cheese: “a little bit” (plus more on top; type not specified)
  • Cumberland sausage (already added)
  • Onion (added with the sausage; small amount)

Peas

  • Peas (quantity not specified; added toward the end)

Equipment / prep

  • Baked jacket potatoes already cooked beforehand (he demonstrates using baked potatoes that can even be handled cold)
  • Oven: final re-heating/baking after filling
  • Pan for the beans (on the hob)
  • Cutting/scooping tools to scoop potato flesh and hollow the jackets
  • Technique cue: “bent at the top there” — he makes an access opening at the top of each jacket potato

Method (step-by-step with timings/temps as mentioned)

1) Smoky beans (make first)

  1. In a pan, add onion and (optional) garlic.
  2. Cook down until it reaches colour.
  3. Add pancetta/streaky bacon and cook a couple of minutes to render down.
  4. Add chopped tomatoes and a touch of tomato paste.
  5. Add Worcestershire sauce and water.
  6. Simmer / cook down for 10–15 minutes to build a rich sauce.
    • Optional: add a stock cube.
  7. Add the two drained types of butter beans.
  8. Taste to check seasoning/flavour: “you just start tasting these”.
  9. Cook until the beans are finished: “there’s the ones that are finished”.

Chef tip (ingredient flexibility): Garlic is optional; he avoids using “too much” because viewers dislike it. Tip mentioned: He references liquid smoke as an option (in the context of ribs), but it’s not clearly confirmed for the beans recipe.

2) Jacket potatoes (twice-filled)

  1. Start with baked jacket potatoes (can be cold).
  2. Cut/bend the top opening, scoop out the potato filling into a bowl/pan.
  3. Refill approach:
    • Normal version (his mum’s way): mix scooped potato with a little butter, then put it back into the skins.
    • Twice-filled version (demonstrated): add fillings such as sausage + onion + peas to the scooped potato.
  4. Sausage + peas filling example (demonstrated):
    • Add Cumberland sausage plus onion; cook a couple of minutes.
    • Add peas and cook briefly: “everything is in peas… in they go like that”.
  5. Put the potato mixture back into the jacket skins again:
    • “twice filled” = filled once, then topped again with more filling.
  6. Add cheese on top.
  7. Bake again in the oven for about 15 minutes.
  8. Serve hot and bubbly: “hey presto they end up like these ones”.

Serving / pairing suggestions

  • Beans pair especially well with ribs.
  • The showcased combination includes:
    • Smoky beans on/with jacket potatoes, including a sausage-and-pea filling option
  • Plating cue: serve the jacket potatoes with beans/toppings finished with cheese, oven-baked until hot.

Variations mentioned (concise)

Beans recipe variations

  • No garlic (or less garlic)
  • Stock cube optional
  • Base flexibility: he mentions using lentils, and references beans in vinegar and black treacle (mum’s approach)

Jacket potato filling variations

  • “Normal”: butter + potato + cheese
  • Demonstrated: Cumberland sausage + onion + peas + cheese

Sources / references mentioned

  • No external sources are cited in the subtitles.
  • He mentions a recipe app where “all the details… are on the app,” but no specific name/link is provided.

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