This Healthy Potato Casserole Recipe is just 168 calories and has 15.9g of protein!
My low calorie baked potato casserole recipe comes with a few tricks to help keep this easy potato casserole low in calories and fat.
Serve this loaded potato casserole as a side dish for weeknights, or holiday dinners. This low calorie potato casserole is a crowd pleaser, and will quickly become one of your favorite side dish recipes.
This Low Calorie Potato Casserole Recipe is just 168 calories and has 15.9g of protein!
Healthy Potato Casserole
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Ingredients in Low Calorie Potato Casserole
This low calorie recipe for roasted loaded potatoes calls for real bacon! You can choose to use turkey bacon in place of the real bacon, but I use such a small amount it’s ok. Plus the flavor is so unbeatable.
To cut calories in this baked potato dish, I swapped high calorie, high fat sour cream for Greek Yogurt. When mixed into this loaded roasted potatoes recipe you can’t taste the difference, plus the Greek Yogurt adds a boost of protein.
Shopping List for Skinny Potato Casserole:
- Baked potatoes
- Greek Yogurt
- Unsweetened almond milk
- Garlic salt
- Pepper
- Cheddar cheese
- Green onions
- Bacon
How to Make Low Calorie Potato Casserole
This recipe for oven loaded potatoes is a wonderful way to use up leftover baked potatoes. You can choose to use the skins, or discard them.
I recommend keeping the skins on for casual weeknight dishes, and remove them for holiday dinners. It’s a prettier look…
This loaded potato casserole recipe can be whipped up in just 40 minutes (including prep) and makes a wonderful meal prep dish. I like to make one of these potato baked dishes early in the week, and the use it as a side dish all week long.
How to Make Skinny Potato Casserole:
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- In a large bowl, with a potato masher, mash the potatoes. If you don’t like the skins, scoop the insides of the potatoes into the bowl, and discard the skins.
- Add Greek Yogurt, almond milk, garlic salt, pepper, 1/2 cup of cheese, 1 sliced green onion and 1 crumbled slice of bacon, and mash together.
- Spread into a 9×13 baking dish.
- Top with remaining cheese, onions and bacon.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until the cheese is melted and the potatoes are hot.
To make these baked potato casserole recipes easy, I have included directions for baking potatoes in the oven, and in the slow cooker in the recipe card below. These recipes are great for making lot of baked potatoes, easily.
Healthy Potato Casserole Recipe
This low calorie loaded potato casserole is just 168 calories and has 15.9g of protein!
Loaded potato recipes like this one make great side dishes for holidays, or weeknight dinners. To make it fancier for holiday gatherings, remove the skins (directions below), and for weeknight meals keep them on.
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Low Calorie Potato Casserole
Equipment
Ingredients
- 6 medium baked potatoes
- ½ cup Greek Yogurt
- ½ cup unsweetened almond milk
- ½ teaspoon garlic salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup cheddar cheese shredded divided
- 3 green onions thinly sliced divided
- 4 slices bacon cooked and crumbled divided
- 1 jalapeno sliced (optional)
Directions for Baking Potatoes:
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- In a large bowl, with a potato masher, mash the potatoes. If you don’t like the skins, scoop the insides of the potatoes into the bowl, and discard the skins.
- Add Greek Yogurt, almond milk, garlic salt, pepper, 1/2 cup of cheese, 1 sliced green onion and 1 crumbled slice of bacon, and mash together.
- Spread into a 9×13 baking dish.
- Top with remaining cheese, onions and bacon.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until the cheese is melted and the potatoes are hot.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Potato Casserole
Not all loaded potato recipes are low in calories. But I cut calories by using ingredients like Greek Yogurt in place of sour cream, and almond milk in place of heavy cream. But I didn’t sacrifice flavor, used real bacon in this recipe.
What you’ll end up with is a low calorie, absolutely delicious low calorie side dish that you will crave over and over again.
The nutrition and calories is based off 1 serving (1 cup) of the Healthy Loaded Baked Potato Casserole above.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is my goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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Article History:
- Originally written and published March 22, 2021 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on September 13, 2023 by Audrey Johns
