Recipe: Mashed Potatoes — Cooking, Travel and Lifestyle!

Mashed potatoes are incredibly versatile, you can use them in a lot of different dishes and products. You can make a lot of variations on it and combine it with lots of different ingredients to keep it interesting. This following recipe you can use as a base and you can add other ingredients according to taste. We will give some suggestions of ingredients that you could add to the mashed potatoes.

Recipe: Mashed Potatoes — Cooking, Travel and Lifestyle!

Mashed Potatoes, British Style, Recipe

I’m a mashed potatoes fanatic!

Cooking With Alfred

Prep: 10 mins – Cook: 25 mins – Total: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 1 ½ lbs Yukon Gold potatoes
• 1 tbsp salt
• 4 tbsp butter
• ¼ cup milk
• salt and pepper – to taste

Instructions

1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into quarters
2. Place the potatoes in a pan and add cold water until they are covered by at least an inch of water.
3. Add the salt and bring to a boil.
4. Skim off any scum that appears on the surface, then reduce the heat to medium and cook for 20-25 minutes until tender to a fork.
5. While the potatoes are cooking, heat the milk in the microwave (or in a small pan) until it is just below boiling.
6. Drain the potatoes very well and leave them in the sieve or colander for several minutes to really steam dry.
7. Use a hand masher or potato ricer to mash until smooth.
8. Add…

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