What are some of your favorite things to add to mashed potatoes?
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Thanks!Great mashed potato recipe's?
Fry half of your potatoes in Olive Oil and season them to match your main dish. Like if you were doing lamb, add some rosemary etc. Skies the limit there. Add them and the oil when you mash (You'll need to reduce butter obviously).
This adds a great layer of flavor and texture to the dish.
Enjoy and Good Luck.Great mashed potato recipe's?
Mashed Potato Tips:
1. Start with russets, Idaho etc.. Just a plain basic potato, no need for red potatoes, or Yukon golds etc鈥?Just stay with the classics here.
2. Don't over boil the potatos the way to tell when they are done is just when a fork can be poked all the way thru a potato with out any force.
3. Drain well or you will have a thin watery mashed potato.
4. When you emtpy your potatos back into the bowl to mash, weather you hand mash or use a mixer just mash the potatos and seasonings without the butter and milk first. Then when you get the consistentcy you want add some milk and butter and stir/fold it in. Potatos can sometimes get a glue like consistentcy due to the starch, mixing them ';dry'; frist helps to prevent that.
Seasoning ideas.
I like to use white pepper in my potatos, but don't use as much it's very strong.
I also like garlic powder/salt, onion powder/salt, and celery salt.
If they taste a little bland add a dash or two more salt, the salt helps to bring out the buttery, creamy-ness of the potatos.
Cream is good in mashed, and I also like to use evaporated milk, it has a nice consistncy with out being to overboard and is realtvly cheap.
You can also add cream cheese, ricota cheese, sour cream, and I haven't trie d fets yet but now I want to. Buttermilk is good too.
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A good recipe for left over mashed taters.
1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg lightly beaten
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup mashed potatoes-warmed just a bit
1 tsp dried parsely
Mix everything together and form into little round balls, then fry in hot oil, drian and enjoy.
Or you can make these into potato pancakes and just mash the balls flat.
Good luck and enjoy.
If you really want to use red taters for mashed here is a recipe we used to use at my Mother in laws restaurant. I haven鈥檛 had them in ages and they sure do sound good right now, just something different.
2 lbs red potatoes-quartered
1 陆 tbsp mashed potatoes
3 tbsp butter
1 cup sour cream
Boil taters with skin on until tender. Drain and mash with the remaining ingredients.
You do want to make sure you at these up right away though. They just don鈥檛 do as good as left overs and definiltly get gluey very easily.
This is my family's favorite mashed potato recipe!
Garlic Smashed Red Potatoes
3lb. small red potatoes
4 cloves of garlic minced
1t. salt
1t. pepper
2t. italian seasonings
1t. chives
1/2 cup water
2T. olive oil
Chive and Onion Cream Cheese Spread
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup milk, if desired
1. Cut potatoes into halves or quarters as necessary to make similar size pieces; place in a 4 to 6 quart slow cooker. Stir in garlic, salt, pepper, Italian seasonings, chives, water, and oil until potato pieces are coated.
2. Cover; cook on high for 3-4 hours or until potatoes are tender.
3. With fork or potato masher, mash potatoes and garlic. Stir in cream cheese spread until well blended. Stir in butter and enough milk until creamy. Serve immediately, or cover and hold in slow cooker on low setting up to 2 hours.
I usually make ';supreme'; mashed potatoes with:
* melted butter (lots of melted butter)
* whole milk or sour cream
* minced garlic
* cheddar cheese
* chives or chopped green onions
* salt, pepper, and dried parsley to taste
Here is the weird ingredient I sometimes use: chopped green olives. Sounds weird but it is really good (if you like olives of course). Note: I use the fresh green pitted olives from my grocery store deli, not the ones in the jar with the pimento but those would probably work too.
I also sometimes chop cooked broccoli or spinach and mix that in too. Probably any vegetable would work.
I loooooove garlic, so when making mashed potatoes I like to crank the oven up to 400F, and throw in a couple of garlic bulbs (with the tops cut off). Pour a little olive oil over them, and some freshly cracked salt and pepper to taste. Roast them in the oven for about 45 minutes.
Steaming keeps in a lot more flavor than boiling, so for really creamy, tasty spuds be sure to steam them! Once they're done, add a little butter, cream and the roasted garlic cloves (I've been known to put two whole garlic bulbs in my potatoes). For the yummiest, creamiest potatoes, I highly recommend using a blender (the slender blenders work best and are easiest to clean - http://www.blackanddecker.ae/en/homeprod鈥?/a>
Add more salt and pepper to taste, and make sure you don't kiss anyone for a while after eating them! :)
My favorite alterations are:
- Add chicken bouillon to the water when boiling (or use chicken broth)
- Add milk and sour cream while blending to make it more creamy
- Add a pinch of sugar (it adds a special flavor)
- Add a pinch of garlic powder
- Add diced green onions
- Make breakfast potato pancakes with leftover mashed potatoes: mix one egg and about 1/3 cup mashed potatoes: pan fry (add ketchup if you like it).
You have a lot of suggestions to your post. Enjoy trying them all!
Make your mashed potatoes just like you normally would, then add a dash of nutmeg and an egg. Whip the egg into the potatoes well. The heat from the potatoes cooks the egg, and the mashed potatoes have a depth of body you would not believe, nice color and a wonderful sheen.
Steam frozen fresh or tinned green peas over the top and if you can't get them minted, add some mint leaves to the peas.
Drain the spuds and mash, then fold in the peas. The flavour of the mint will permeate the potatoes giving them a wonderful taste.
You could use diced carrot of corn kernels.
Using pasrnips or sweet potatoes will give a wonderful sweetness to them.
I like to shred extra sharp cheddar and mix it in with it . Then press it into a baking bowl like a pie shell . Then throw in leftover chicken and vegetables or whatever meat I want to use up out of refrigerator .Then add a can of cream soup with it . ( chicken , celery , mushroom )
here is a nice side as well . Dice up some onion and green bell pepper add some sliced black olives flour and dry mustard mix them with the potatoes and form into patties . Now you can fry them or bake them . These are great with any chops or even chicken . To jazz them up spoon some salsa on top and a dab of sour cream or just put out the ketchup bottle most kids think it is a food group anyway .
Cream cheese, sour cream and minced green onion.
You can also use all of the above, add two eggs and bake the mixture in the oven to brown the top, it makes a nice side dish.
I like my mashed potatoes simple: salt, pepper, nutmeg, heavy cream, and plenty of butter.
You could try mixing in Ranch dressing for extra flavor.
After cooking your potatoes %26amp; are in the mashing stage, I use warm milk, salt, pepper, and crushed garlic. Absolutely our of this world!
Oh~I also leave the skins on potatoes~~all the vitamins are in those skins.
Happy Cooking!
Red skins, diced boiled and skin left on
1/2 package cream cheese, room temp!!!
2-3 cloves garlic, chopped
Green onion, chopped
Whip it all up together!
Add in 2-3 T milk or chicken stock if you need it to move more.
Well its epends how you make your mash potatoes
Me, its potatoes, milk and butter
Mixing yoghurt in is delicious!
Perhaps sour cream and sweet chilli sauce?
Pumpkin?
My favorite and standard recipe is just potatoes, cream cheese, and melted garlic butter, all mashed together.
Minced garlic, butter, shredded sharp cheddar cheese, crumbled bacon - YUM! Top with some diced green onion for color, add sour cream if you wish....
i boil them until soft. i add canned evaporated milk and butter and mash. more or less to taste and thickness...then i serve with either gravy or sourcream and bacon bits
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add sour cream, chopped chives garlic and white american cheese
yum yum
buttermilk
cream cheese (makes it beautiful %26amp; white!)
sour cream
roasted garlic (out of the jar is easiest)
Substitute sour cream in place of milk. Add some fresh dill if you like. It's quite tasty.
Ranch dressing
bacon
sour cream
cheese
chives
mayo instead of butter
