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Mashed Potatoes
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Mashed Potatoes

Potatoes cooked from cold salted water until tender, dried in the hot pot and mashed by hand with hot milk and butter.

⏱ 36 min
🧀 Dairy🥬 Vegetarian🌾 Gluten-free
Versions:Original🌱 Vegan⚖ Pareve

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Peel the potatoes and cut into similar-size pieces.
    PeelerKnifeCutting board
  2. 2
    Cook the potatoes in a pot of cold salted water covering it by about 2 cm, 20–25 minutes from the boil, until a fork goes into it easily.
    ⚙ Cooking in salted waterStoveSmall saucepan
  3. 3
    Drain and return them to the hot pot over low heat for a minute: the excess moisture evaporates.
    ColanderStove
  4. 4
    Heat the milk and butter to just below boiling.
    StoveSmall saucepan
    💡The milk and butter go in hot and in small portions: cold liquid cools the mash, and too much liquid makes it runny.
  5. 5
    Mash the potatoes with a hand masher, gradually adding the milk and butter, until there are no lumps.
    Masher
    💡Mash by hand, not in a food processor or blender: the blades release starch and the mash turns gluey.
  6. 6
    Season with salt and stir briefly and serve hot.
318calories
6 gprotein
45 gcarbs
13 gfat
● protein 8%● carbs 56%● fat 37%

Per serving (297 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (7) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)
  • Masher · Also works: Fork (Takes longer) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Stick blender (Gluey mash)
  • Peeler · Also works: Paring knife (Wastes more of the fruit, slow)

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🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Cinnamon · Milk · butter · Hot stock instead of milk · A little cooking water in the mash (½ cup) · Green onion folded in

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🔗 Used in

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