Recipe For Cooking Tex-Mex Baked Potatoes

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Tex-Mex Baked Potatoes

4 baking potatoes
1 lb. lean ground beef
1 (12 oz.) jar mild or hot salsa
2 tea. chili powder
1/4 C. diced green bell pepper
1 Tbsp. chopped stuffed green olives
1 C. shredded Monterey jack cheese
1 C. thinly sliced iceberg lettuce
Sliced tomatoes

Scrub potatoes; pierce skin with fork. Bake at 400 degrees F until tender, about 1 hr..

Fifteen min. before potatoes are done, saute meat in hot skillet until all pink disappears. Add salsa and chili powder to meat. Cover. Cook over med. heat for about 10 min.

Add green pepper and olives to meat mixture. Heat through.

Cut baked potatoes open. Spoon hot meat mixture into potatoes. Top at once with cheese so that it melts slightly.

Serve with lettuce sprinkled on top and with sliced tomatoes alongside.