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Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potato Bites

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The other day I posted my take on low calorie / light mashed potatoes. They are awesome and you should definitely try them. Now that I had all these mashed potatoes I needed to figure out what to do with them other than eat them as is. I like variety in my diet, If I’m stuck eating mashed potatoes every single day, I’m not going to be happy and I’m going to fall off track.

Queue Jesse making a post in our Lose Weight Eat Pizza facebook group with just the word “potato”. Funny memes were posted, everyone was having a great time and someone mentioned Unos Pizza Skins and I know exactly what I needed to make.

We’re calling ours Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potato Bites and I promise you will eat the whole tray, Just don’t get carried away – at 136 calories a bite it’s so easy to accidentally eat an entire tray and go over your calories for the day. (Ask me how I know)

What are Unos Pizza Skins?

Unos Pizza Skins are a deep dish pizza crust filled to the brim with creamy mashed potatoes, bacon and cheddar. They are delicious and they better be – coming in at 1970 calories for a single appetizer. I don’t know about you but that’s more calories than I get to eat in a day…for single appetizer.

How’d You Lower The Calories?

We made the crust using weight watchers 2 ingredient pizza dough. WW 2 ingredient pizza dough is one of the easiest ways to to make pizza dough for a fraction of the calories. You just combine equal parts self rising flour and 0% greek yogurt. I use my Kitchen-aid stand mixer to make this with the dough hook attachment. This dough can be made in bulk and frozen but I would recommend rolling it out into sheets first (make sure to use plenty of extra flour to coat the dough and rolling pin because this dough is so sticky). This will make it much easier to thaw what you need instead of having a giant dough ball that takes forever to thaw.

Second, we use my low calorie mashed potatoes recipe. These mashed potatoes are made without butter and are 37% less calories than a traditional recipe. We use I can’t believe it’s not butter as a substitute for butter in the mashed potatoes. We also use eggs as a milk substitute for the mashed potatoes. This allows for peaks to form and our mashed potatoes to be fluffy and still creamy.

We top everything off with fat free shredded cheddar cheese and bacon crumbles to make the best low calorie healthy snack that feels like junk food. These can be garnished with chives & dipped in light sour cream.

What Do I Need?

Ingredients

  • FOR THE DOUGH
  • 180g (1.5 cups) Self Rising Flour

  • 226g 0% Greek Yogurt

  • FOR THE MASHED POTATOES
  • 425g (approx. 2 large) Russet Potatoes

  • 10g Whole Garlic Cloves

  • 63g (1) Egg

  • 1/2 tbsp Salt

  • 30g (2 tbsp) I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter – Light

  • TOPPINGS
  • 45g Fat Free Shredded Cheddar Cheese

  • 18g Bacon Crumbles

  • OPTIONAL
  • Chives for Garnish

  • Light Sour Cream for topping or dipping

Any Substitutes? I Don’t have XYZ In My Pantry.

Self Rising Flour – If you don’t have self rising flour on hand you can make any flour “self rising” by adding 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4th a teaspoon of baking soda for every cup of regular flour

0% Greek Yogurt – If you can’t find 0% and happen to have 2% or higher on hand you can use that instead.

Russet Potatoes – If you have Yukon Gold on hand you can use this instead. I wouldn’t recommend using any other type of potato other than these two.

Whole Garlic Gloves – You can leave this out but do not replace it with minced garlic, tube garlic or garlic powder. Cloves are added while the potatoes are boiling and removed before mashing.

Eggs – You could leave the eggs out entirely or substitute with water, I wouldn’t recommend it as this is what gives the mashed potatoes their creamy texture

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Light – You can replace this with regular butter, it’ll up the calorie counts a bit so use a light hand.

Fat Free Shredded Cheddar – You can sub this for regular shredded cheddar or shred a block of cheddar yourself – just make sure you account for the calorie difference.

Directions

  • Add 1 cup (120g) of flour to 1 cup (226g) of greek yogurt, If you have a stand mixer use the dough hook attachment. If you do not lightly flour your hands and kneed until combined.
  • Boil Potatoes with whole garlic cloves and 1/4th tsp salt until potatoes are soft enough to fall apart with the touch of a fork. Strain and remove garlic cloves. Immediately add your eggs, I can’t believe it’s not butter and 1/4th tbsp salt. Mix with a hand mixer or whisk until fluffy.
  • Sprinkle half of the remaining flour (30g / 1/4th cup) on a cutting board and over your dough. Separate dough into 9 small balls. The remainder of your flour (30g) will be used to help you spread the dough, spread dough as much as possible and place each piece into a large muffin pan. Press the dough into the muffin pan forming very short wall 1/4th of the way up. This should look like a mini personal pizza
  • Bake the dough at 350 degrees for 20 minutes
  • Once baked the dough will have risen in the center slightly, This is normal and nothing to worry about. Add 20g (1 1/2 tbsp) of mashed potatoes to the center of the cup, Top with 5g of shredded cheese and 2g of bacon crumbles. Add back into the over for an additional 10 minutes
  • Once baked optionally garnish with chives and use light sour cream to dip

Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potato Bites

Recipe by Kristen FCourse: AppetizersCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings

9

servings
Prep time

10

minutes
Cooking time

30

minutes
Calories

136

kcal

Ingredients

  • FOR THE DOUGH
  • 180g (1.5 cups) Self Rising Flour

  • 226g 0% Greek Yogurt

  • FOR THE MASHED POTATOES
  • 425g (approx. 2 large) Russet Potatoes

  • 10g Whole Garlic Cloves

  • 63g (1) Egg

  • 1/2 tbsp Salt

  • 30g (2 tbsp) I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter – Light

  • TOPPINGS
  • 45g Fat Free Shredded Cheddar Cheese

  • 18g Bacon Crumbles

  • OPTIONAL
  • Chives for Garnish

  • Light Sour Cream for topping or dipping

Directions

  • Add 1 cup (120g) of flour to 1 cup (226g) of greek yogurt, If you have a stand mixer use the dough hook attachment. If you do not lightly flour your hands and kneed until combined.
  • Boil Potatoes with whole garlic cloves & 1/4th tsp salt until potatoes are soft enough to fall apart with the touch of a fork. Strain and remove garlic cloves. Immediately add your eggs, I can’t believe it’s not butter and 1/4th tbsp salt. Mix with a hand mixer or whisk until fluffy.
  • Sprinkle half of the remaining flour (30g / 1/4th cup) on a cutting board & over your dough. Separate dough into 9 small balls. The remainder of your flour (30g) will be used to help you spread the dough, spread dough as much as possible and place each piece into a large muffin pan. Press the dough into the muffin pan forming very short “wall” 1/4th of the way up. This should look like a mini personal pizza
  • Bake the dough at 350 degrees for 20 minutes
  • Once baked the dough will have risen in the center slightly, This is normal and nothing to worry about. Add 20g (1 1/2 tbsp) of mashed potatoes to the center of the cup, Top with 5g of shredded cheese and 2g of bacon crumbles. Add back into the over for an additional 10 minutes
  • Once baked optionally garnish with chives & use light sour cream to dip

Notes

  • Work fast, The dough is super sticky and will stick to your hands if you aren’t fast / coating your hands in flour
  • The additional 60g of flour in this recipe is used to coat the dough after it is made, you can try to cut this down but I found it was needed to not make a huge sticky mess
  • I do not use any type of cooking oil in this recipe. I’ve never had an issue with the dough sticking to my tray but if this is something your concerned about use 1/2 tsp of oil for the entire pan. This will add 20 calories
  • I use a large muffin pan to make these, if you want to cut the calories down further or you don’t have a large muffin pan on hand, use a cupcake pan.
  • My calorie counts do not include the light sour cream in the optional ingredients. Personally I love it but Jesse isn’t a fan and likes them better without

Nutrition Facts

9 servings per container


  • Amount Per ServingCalories136
  • % Daily Value *
  • Total Fat 1.5g 3%
    • Total Carbohydrate 22.7g 8%
      • Protein 8.05g 17%

        * The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.