Mashed Potatoes
From tuilelaith 6 years ago
- 1 hour to make
- Serves 1
I love the taste of food, that's why I am a big girl. I do not understand the boiling away of flavor when making food. so this is how I make my mashed potatoes.
Ingredients
- 1 large potato, or 2 small ones (3 medium will make 2 servings) shopping list
- Real butter shopping list
- Milk, the fresher the better shopping list
- Salt shopping list
- pepper shopping list
- garlic powder, optional shopping list
- onion powder, optional shopping list
- chives, optional shopping list
- Italian seasoning, optional shopping list
- rosemary, optional shopping list
- fried onions, optional shopping list
- frozen or fresh peas, optional shopping list
- crumbled bacon, optional shopping list
- Velveeta cheese, optional (my youngest daughter uses this) shopping list
- Any REAL cheese grated, optional shopping list
How to make it
- Bake the potatoes as if making baked potatoes.
- If you are a microwave person, microwave them for 5 to 7 minutes, until soft through.
- Place the potatoes into a bowl and sort of cut them up.
- I love the skin left on, however, if you do not like the skin it will come off very easily at this point.
- Place a good amount of butter, depending on your taste, into the potatoes.
- Add any seasonings you want added at this point also.
- I use a hand masher, as I like lumps, and mash the cooked potatoes until they are to your favorite consistency.
- If you do not like lumpy, you may use an electric mixer for fluffier mashed potatoes.
- When the butter in melted and the potatoes and as mashed as you like them add the milk and mash a little more.
- If adding peas, fried onions, or any other veggie or bulky item, stir them in at this point.
- Serve with or without gravy.
- They are so good you will not care if you have gravy, I promise you!!!
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- Remember that over mashing with give you a glue type texture so once the milk is added do not work the potatoes to much. Potatoes that have been beaten too much turn into a sticky, gooey paste because the starch in potatoes has been released. Over boiling them can cause dull and not so great mashed potatoes also, yet another reason NOT to boil them.
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I recently started making mashed potatoes this way when I decided to try to get by without so many processed foods. That meant the instant mashed potatoes had to go! This method is much better!
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