Tuna Jacket Potato

We'll show you how to make THE BEST tuna jacket potato. Dark crispy skinned baked potatoes stuffed to bursting with the tastiest tuna and sweetcorn filling. Just SO GOOD!

When it comes to comfort food, there's little better than a proper old-school jacket potato. A salty, crispy skinned baked spud, with a fluffy middle, loaded with butter and then topped with your favourite jacket potato filler.

We are just obsessed with this delicious tuna and sweetcorn filler. It's super flavourful, super easy to make and the perfect way to top your baked potato.

Everyone has their favourite way of baking a potato, for us it HAS to be air fryer or long and slow in the oven. I'll run you through each way below, then you can make the one that suits you!

Equipment Needed For Making Tuna Jacket Potato

• Fork

• Microwave/Oven/Airfryer

• Mixing bowl

• Chopping board

• Knife

• Fork

• Tablespoon

Ingredients For Tuna Jacket Potato

You'll just need some big baking potatoes and a handful of ingredients to make the tuna mayo jacket potato filler!

For the jacket potatoes

• 4 baking potatoes

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1 teaspoon salt

For the tuna and sweetcorn filler

• 2 x 110g cans of tuna – get the cans or fridge packs with no-drain on the can - they make nicer tuna mayo.

• 4 tablespoon mayonnaise 

• 326g can of sweetcorn 

• 1 red pepper – very finely chopped 

• ½ red onion – very finely chopped 

• 100g Cheddar cheese – finely grated

• 1 red chilli – deseeded and finely chopped (optional)

• small bunch flat leaf parsley – finely chopped

How To Make Tuna Jacket Potato

Our jacket potato with tuna and cheese, sweetcorn and mayo is super easy to make!

Step One - cook the jacket potatoes

• Cook the jacket potatoes in either the microwave, oven or air fryer until done to your liking - see our cooking instructions below.

How To Bake Potatoes Ready For Your Tuna Jacket Potato Feast!

Oven Baked Potatoes - cook in around 90 minutes

• Scrub the skin and dry thoroughly.

• Prick the skin all over with a fork

• Rub the skin with olive oil and sprinkle with salt

• Bake in a preheated oven at 160C for around 90 minutes - jacket potatoes are cooked when they are squidgy and soft when you squeeze them. Just wear an oven glove to avoid getting burnt hands.

• If it's not quite cooked, return to the oven and continue cooking - check every 10 minutes until done.

Air Fryer Baked Potatoes - cook in around 60 minutes

This is our favourite way to make tuna jacket potato!

• Scrub the skin and dry thoroughly.

• Prick the skin all over with a fork

• Rub the skin with olive oil and sprinkle with salt

• Air fry at 170C for 30 minutes, then turn them over and continue to cook at 190C until done to your liking.

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Microwave Jacket Potatoes - cook in around 10 minutes

• Scrub the skin and dry properly.

• Prick the skin all over with a fork, this will stop it bursting as it cooks - don't rub the skins with oil. Microwave baked potatoes don't crisp up so don't need oiling.

• Microwave on high for around 5 minutes, then turn the potato over and continue to cook for a further 4-5 minutes (depending on the size of the potato). Just keep giving it a squeeze wearing an oven glove or using a dry towel, every few minutes to see if it's cooked.

• If you're cooking more than one potato at a time, you may need to microwave for a little longer.

Jacket Potato In Microwave Then Oven or Air Fryer

Doing it this way cuts a little time off the oven or air fryer cooking time and you'll still end up with crispy skins and be eating your tuna jacket potato quicker!

• Scrub the skin and pat dry properly.

• Prick the skin all over with a fork - don't oil yet.

• Cook the potatoes on high for around 6 minutes (longer if cooking more than one potato), turning half way through cooking.

• Remove from the microwave and place on a plate - brush them with oil using a pastry brush so you don't burn hands, and sprinkle with salt.

• Then cook in the air fryer or oven until the skins are crispy and the potatoes squash when you squeeze them.

Step Two - make the tuna and sweetcorn mayo filling

• Add all the tuna sweetcorn filling ingredients to a bowl and mix together well to combine. Read here for more tips on making great tuna and sweetcorn

Step Three - serve your tuna jacket potato recipe

• Put the jacket potatoes onto plates or in serving bowls. Cut them open - you can if you like add a big knob of butter to the middles of the potato and just mash it into the fluffy centre, before adding the tuna and sweetcorn filler.

• Pile in the tuna and sweetcorn and eat straight away - they're just so delicious!

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