Easy Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are a comfort food and pair well with so many dishes. They're easy to make and great to eat!
Ingredients
- 5 pounds potatoes use whatever type of potato you prefer
- 2 sticks butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- Skin your potatoes (skip this step if you'd like all the good-for-you nutrients found in potato skins)
- Chunk your pototaoes and place in a colander. Rinse the dirt and dust off your potatoes. Toss them into a large stock pot.
- Cover the potatoes with water and salt the water. Place over high heat, cover, and bring to a boil. Boil potatoes until soft (or your chosen consistency)
- Once potatoes are fork tender, strain off the water and return to the pan for mashing (you can also mash potatoes in your stand mixer with the paddle attachment). Drop both sticks of butter into the hot potatoes. You can allow the butter to melt a bit before mashing.
- Mash potatoes until most of the chunks are broken up. Sprinkle in the desired salt, pepper, and starting with 1/2 cup buttermilk. Whip the potato mixture again. Depending on your desired texture, add more buttermilk.
Notes
You can use any potato you wish for this recipe. Russet potatoes will give you a light, airy mashed potato. Golden potatoes will give you a flavorful, rich mashed potato.
You can use whatever milk product you prefer in this recipe. Buttermilk offers more depth of flavor. Milk will give more sweet notes (beware it's thinner than buttermilk and you may use less of it). Heavy cream will add richness and decadence.
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