I apologize, I was a little lazy around Easter time and didn’t post any Easter recipes. It’s not that I don’t like deviled eggs or hot crossed buns (I actually don’t think I’ve ever had hot crossed buns before, but once upon a time I did learn how to play the song on the piano!), I guess I just wasn’t feeling super inspired. When I was a kid we had the most amazing Easter egg hunts and Easter potluck (the Easter egg hunts were seriously the best in the world and better than any kid could ever ask for!), but now that I’m older, I don’t really do much Easter celebrating.
I do, however, do some mean Cinco De Mayo celebrating! If you’re familiar with my blog, you know that I can’t get enough Mexican food. So, I guess you could say that I’m celebrating Cinco De Mayo and sharing this recipe as an excuse to post yet another Mexican recipe on here. I hope you don’t mind! And, since I neglected to give you an Easter recipe, I’ve kinda combined the two holidays into one with this dish. Maybe we can call it “Easter/Cinco De Mayo Fusion”?? Something about that phrase makes me think of hard boiled eggs and tequila… Maybe I’ll have to think of something else to call it! Regardless of what we call it, this recipe is super easy and delicious and there is a chance that I made it while my husband was out of town and then ate them all for dinner…
Use a melon baller or sharp teaspoon to scoop out the inside of the potato. PS-if you roast the little balls of potato with some olive oil and spices, they are just like tater tots!
Then put them in the oven with some delicious spices until they are roasty toasty!
I promise after this I will start posting recipes that don’t involve avocados every week, but sometimes I just can’t help myself!
Roasted Potato Cups with Loaded Guacamole {gf+v}
Prep Time: 15 mins- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 45 minutes
Category: Appetizer, Gluten Free, Vegan
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Roasted Potato Cups
- 1.5 pounds baby red potatoes, or 1 small bag
- 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
Loaded Guacamole
- 1 and 1/2 avocado
- 1/2 cup corn kernels, frozen, canned, or fresh
- 1/2 cup black beans
- 1/2 cup chopped tomato
- 1/4 cup diced red onion
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Juice of 1/2 a lemon or lime
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Radish, cut into matchsticks to garnish, if desired
- Cilantro leaves for garnish, if desired
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Cut each potato in half and using a melon baller or sharp teaspoon, scoop out the inside of the potato leaving about 1/4 inch border.
- Put potatoes in a large bowl and drizzle with olive oil and season with spices.
- Place potatoes on a large sheet pan and put in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes, flipping once, until potatoes are fork tender. Let cool for a few minutes.
- In a medium sized bowl add the avocado slices and mash them.
- Then add the remaining guacamole ingredients and stir until combined.
- Scoop a small spoonful of guacamole mixture into each potato cup.
- Garnish with radish matchsticks and cilantro leaves, if desired.
Notes
*Best when served immediately while potatoes are still slightly warm.
*If transporting, cover with plastic wrap and make sure the plastic wrap is directly touching the guacamole to ensure that is stays nice and green.
Somebody had a little too much cat nip…
Looking for more Cinco De Mayo recipes? Or maybe you just love Mexican food as much as I do and you want to eat it for every meal 🙂
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- Grilled Corn Crostini with Avocado & Radish
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- Tostadas with Homemade Refried Beans & Pico
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- Spaghetti Squash Enchiladas
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- Izzy’s Guacamole
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- Potato Tacos
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- Black Eyes Pea Salad – replace black eyed peas with black beans
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- Grilled Chicken French Fry Fajitas
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- Taco Pizza
I *love* avocado, so keep the avo recipes coming! These little potato cups sound so good! Perfect little appetizer alongside chips and salsa. I also love your idea of roasting the little scooped out potato balls!
Hi Natalie! I love it to and think that I’ve become obsessed with it lately! It doesn’t help that they seem to be on sale for super cheap every single time I go to the store. These would definitely go well alongside some chips and salsa, I actually don’t think I can think of a single thing that wouldn’t go well with chips and salsa 🙂 (just now, both times I accidentally typed salad instead of salsa, haha!)
These look delicious Izzy! I’m such a fan of potatoes, but never seem to eat them often. We don’t do much for Easter either, though we should be going to church. :-/ Maybe when the girls get a bit older… 🙂
P.s. Your kitty is so cute!!
Thanks, Lauren!! I’m a huge fan of potatoes too and I probably eat enough for the both of us! I always loved going on Easter egg hunts as a kid, we literally lived out in the middle of nowhere in the woods and my friend’s mom would create these really amazing, long Easter egg hunts for us to go on. Maybe when I have kids I’ll have to start up some Easter traditions 🙂
Can I come over for dinner?! Honestly, you’re so talented! These look incredible. I have about 5 of your recipes bookmarked to try in the next couple of weeks. These look particularly amazing! And I love avocados! I’m perfectly okay with you posting all avocado recipes, all the time hehe. I like your thinking with the Easter/Cinco De Mayo Fusion! …and I kind of love a solo dinner -I would also eat all of these if left alone 🙂
Thanks so much, Allison! Yes! Please do come over for dinner, that would be so much fun! Maybe I should change my blog to She Likes Avocados? haha. As much as I like cooking for others, I love a solo dinner too, I only have one person to please and that person can easily be pleased with taco salad or potatoes with guacamole. Last night I got home and dipped chips into the leftover ones and then heated the potatoes and ate them with salsa, and that was dinner 🙂
These potatoes look delicious! I really like the idea of scooping the inside of the potatos to fill them with the guacamole.
Thanks, Azu! I made a recipe like this a while back and filled them with egg salad, but I think I like this guacamole version much better 🙂
Izzy these look absolutely delicious!! Guacamole on a potato sounds so good!! I love that you used a melon baller to scoop out the potatoes . Very clever 😀
Thanks, Cindy! Avocados and potatoes are two of my favorite things, so it only made sense to combine them 🙂 Sometimes I buy potatoes just to scoop out little balls to make “tater tots” with, they are so good!
I’m totally obsessed with avocado–it’s an all-day, every-meal, complete food as far as I’m concerned 🙂 these look awesome! It’s like chips & guacamole but dressed up and really, really delicious-looking!
Hi Stephanie! Thank you so much! My husband doesn’t really care for avocado and it used to make me a little mad, (because who doesn’t like avocado??) but now I don’t mind because I know that whenever I make guacamole I get to eat all of it 🙂
These looks so good! I love Mexican food and avocado, too. I’ve been really into the combination of sweet potato and avocado lately, so I may have to try that too.
Thanks so much, Joanna! I love sweet potatoes, but I have never tried pairing them with avocado, that is such a great idea!! I’m going to have to try that 🙂
Wow!! These look so delicious!! You have such beautiful photography!! Yum!
Hi Cailee!! Thank you so much for the sweet compliment! They are very delicious 🙂
Isadora you are a genius. I LOVE this idea
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Haha! Thanks Kathy! There are so many more things I want to stuff inside of potatoes now!
These mini potato cups are adorable! I love that you filled teem with guacamole! I’m always looking for tasty appetizers. 🙂
Thank you, Tina!! I love tasty appetizer ideas too, sometimes I think I prefer fun appetizers over entrees. Maybe I’ll have to throw an appetizer party soon!
We made these along with a goat cheese/almond butter spinach stuffed pork loin. By far the BEST guac I have made. Took me over 40 minutes to relocate the recipe because I didn’t bookmark it some how. Well worth my search! Dinner for 12 tonight and they will be treated to your AMAZING guacamole dish while they wait!
Hi Will!! Thank you so much for you comment! I just made my day! I’m sorry it took you so long to find the recipe again, but I’m so glad you loved it! That means so much to me 🙂 I hope everyone really loves these potato cups tonight! Also, a goat cheese, almond butter, and spinach stuffed pork loin sounds amazing!
http://fedandfit.com/2012/09/11/stuffed-pork-tenderloin/
Enjoy, We loved it.
These are such a great little appetizer! Love the combination. Looks great!
Thank you so much!!
I made these for a party last night…they were the first thing to get eaten. WONDERFUL recipe!!
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That’s awesome to hear!! So glad everyone liked them 🙂
Made these and they were absolutely delicious! I served them with roasted red capsicum, corn on the cob and steamed carrots. Yum! A few friends have said they were great too.
That’s great to hear, Michelle! I’m so glad everyone enjoyed them 🙂
I can’t believe it took me 3 years to find this recipe. Where has this been all my life?!?!? Newly vegan and experimenting with different ways to eat my favorite things (and still make my picky roommate happy), I threw this together last night.
We used an assortment of small potatoes we had on hand a layer of refried pinto beans, cilantro lime white rice, and topped it off with the loaded guac (added black olives and a dash of cumin). DELISH!!! Thanks for sharing!
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oh my gosh, that sounds amazing!! I’m going to have to try it that way! So glad you enjoyed them 🙂
I only recently discovered my love for avocado, so I love coming across new recipe ideas that use them. These sound great!
It’s amazing!! Thanks 🙂
Brilliant. … Delicous
Thank you! 🙂
Love this recipe.The roasted potatoes are seasoned perfectly and the loaded guac is healthy and delicious! They look delicious too!! Thanks for an incredible recipe!
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Thank you! I’m so glad you like it! 🙂
I absolutely love your recipe! I am writing vegetarian recipe round ups on my blog in 2018 (to encourage people to try meatless monday- everyone has to start somewhere) and would love to feature your potato cups. You can check out my blog (for beginner environmentalists) at sunshineguerrilla.com. Is it alright if I share this link to your recipe?
Of course! Thanks for asking 🙂
I have tried the recipe yesterday and it was absolutely delicious. I ate the leftovers this morning and it was still very tasty. Instead of the recommanded potatoes I used Gourmande potatoes which worked well. Thanks a lot and I will certainly start following you.
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I’m so glad you liked them!!
They look yummy I must try them soon
Thanks, Deborah! I hope you enjoy them! 🙂
I tried these a while back and loved them!
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Awesome! So glad to hear it!