Real mashed potatoes.
I love mashed potatoes. Easy. Yummy. Real food. Great side dish.
Here’s how I make fantastic mashed potatoes with no processed foods, no funny stuff, all real ingredients.
Peel (optional) & chop up 8-10 potatoes into 1 inch cubes. I make massive amounts of potatoes because it’s one of my children’s favorites. Leftover mashed potatoes are gold. The potatoes can be from the grocery, farm market, or the garden.
Toss them into a pot & cover with filtered water.
Boil them until they are fork tender.
Do not over-cook them or you will have gummy, watery potatoes. Not good.
Once they are cooked, strain off the water.
I just made a batch of butter (like 10 minutes ago). So I am going to use this fresh butter in my mashed potatoes. It doesn’t get much more real than that.
I want 2 sticks, so I am weighing out 8oz.
Mix that in with the hot, strained potato chunks.
Now for some dairy. You could use milk, but why? When you have a Jersey cow – you are swimming in cream. So, for the creamiest, mashed potatoes, I use whole, fresh cream.
In it goes. I added 1 cup.
Salt. I needed to add 3 tsp of salt because my butter was cream approximately 20 minutes ago and it hasn’t been salted. If you are using salted butter you will only need 1 – 2 tsp salt (depending on how much you like salt).
1/2 tsp pepper & mix it all up. Some folks use only white pepper in mashed potatoes. I didn’t have any white pepper, so I have black specks in my potatoes.
I’m gonna serve my mashed potatoes in the pot they were born in. I just don’t see any need to dirty extra pans. I dot the top of my potatoes with some of that fresh butter.
In 10 minutes it will melt.
OH MY! All real ingredients. So good for you. So yummy.
Enjoy!
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Peel and cut potatoes into 1 inch cubes. Place in large pot and cover with water. Boil on stovetop until fork tender. Strain off water. Add butter & Mix with electric mixer. Add cream & mix. Add salt & pepper to taste. Dot top with butter. Serve warm.
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