Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Bacon and Cheddar Mashed Potatoes Recipe

This is another version of the popular cheddar mashed potatoes recipe. With this recipe we are adding bacon, so if you can not live without the meat taste – this is the recipe for you.

Bacon and Cheddar Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Prep time: 30 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Ingredients

2 1/2 pounds potatoes (Yukon gold or Russets are best for mashed potatoes)
1 cup shredded extra-sharp cheddar cheese
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons reduced-fat sour cream
4 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup chopped green onions
salt and pepper

Instructions

Peel the potatoes. Cut them into big pieces. Big pieces suck up less water and mashed potatoes will taste better. Put them into a pot and cover them with cold water. Add salt and bring to boil. When the water boils you can turn the heat down (or your stove will be really messy) and let your potatoes simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes. When they are soft and tender they are done.
Now drain them and return them to your pot. Put the pot back on low heat. Why? By doing this you will get rid of all the water and mashed potatoes will taste better. Just make sure you don’t burn them.
Now add cheese and milk and mash the potatoes. Put them back on fire and cook them until all the cheese melts. Make sure you keep stirring so you don’t burn the potatoes. When the cheese melts you can add the rest of ingredients – sour cream, bacon, green onions, salt, and pepper. Using this much potatoes will feed around 8 people, so you can easily cut all the ingredients in half in you don’t need so much mashed potatoes.

Notes And Extra Tips

Also, if you like, you can replace bacon with prosciutto. This is the end of this bacon and cheddar mashed potatoes recipe. Enjoy your potatoes.

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Cheddar Mashed Potatoes Recipe

This cheddar mashed potatoes recipe uses…duh – cheddar cheese to make your mashed potatoes better. Lot’s of times it can happen that your mashed potatoes turn out a bit plain. Maybe your potatoes were not the best kind for this recipe, maybe you forgot to follow some of the tips and tricks we include in our recipes to make mashed potatoes better or just plain and simple you need some more depth to the taste. Cheddar cheese help you add richness to your mashed potatoes. Sure you can use other cheeses but cheddar is the most popular one to add to your mashed potatoes. So what do we need?

Cheddar Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Prep time: 30 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Ingredients

2 pounds potatoes (Yukon Golds or Russets)
3/4 cup warm milk
2 tbsp butter
1 cup shredded extra-sharp Cheddar cheese
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 Tblsp chopped chives
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Peel the potatoes and cut them into big pieces. Put them into a pot and cover them with cold water. Add some salt and start cooking. When water boils turn the heat down and let it simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Your potatoes are cooked when they are soft.
Drain them and return them to the pot, put the pot back on low heat. This will make the rest of the water evaporate. Be careful not to burn the potatoes. Now add all the milk (milk must be warm, cold milk can make potatoes gluey and also – it will take longer for cheddar cheese to melt), butter, onion powder and salt and pepper for the taste.
Use a wire masher, potato ricer… to mash your potatoes and only then stir in the Cheddar cheese. You should put your Cheddar cheese mashed potatoes back on low heat so all the cheese melts. But make sure you stir them all the time so you don’t burn them.
At the end, for that extra little bit, sprinkle your cheddar mashed potatoes with chopped chives. 2 pound of potatoes will feed 4 to 6 people. That’s it, cheddar mashed potatoes recipe is easy.

These mashed potatoes also go great together with beef, like beef you can bake using these beef brisket recipes. Enjoy!

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Healthy Mashed Potatoes Recipe

We always asume that healthy foods are some exotic weird sounding plants that come from the other side of the planet and that taste like crap. The weirder they are teh more we are happy to believe they have some extra healing powers. So what if I told you that an ordinary potato also has some health benefits? It’s true, every mashed potatoes recipe on this site will also give you mashed potatoes that will be good for you?

How is that? The “secret” (lol, it’s no secret) is, that potatoes are mostly made out of water and starch. Some of that starch is a bit special. It is resistant to enzymatic digestion. That means that it does not get digested in your stomach and in your small intestine but it comes all the way to the large intestine. Can you name me a food that does the same? If you can’t remember – foods that are rich in fiber. So in a part common potatoes have similar effects and benefits food rich with fiber.

Healthy Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Prep time: 30 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Now lets take some of these healthy potatoes and turn them into a nice healthy mashed potatoes recipe! BTW, since every potato has these capabilities all mashed potato recipes on this site are healthy :).

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs potatoes (Yukon Gold are arguably the best potatoes for making mashed potatoes, Russtes are also good)
5 Tbsp milk
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pepper for taste

Instructions

So we can really call this recipe healthy, we kicked out the cream and replaced it with milk. Cream has more fat which is bad for you (if you eat to much of it of course). It is also nice to hold back on the salt if you want to avoid some of the problems that to much salt brings (like high blood pressure).
Let’s get started – peel the potatoes and cut them into big pieces. Big pieces absorb less water than small potato pieces. More water – watery potatoes with less taste. Cover them with cold water, add salt, and bring them to boil and then simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.How do you know potatoes are cooked? They must be soft if you sick a knife or a fork in the fattest potato in the pan.
Done? Now you need to drain the potatoes and then put them back on low heat. This will make all the water evaporate (be carefull not tu burn them) and potatoes will taste better – less water – more taste. Heat the milk (don’t add cold milk) and add it together with butter. Also add some salt and pepper.
Now all there is left is to use a wire masher and mash the potatoes and this healthy mashed potatoes recipe is finished.

Check here for a few things on wire masher …

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Best Mashed Potatoes Recipe

When it comes down to the final taste of your mashed potatoes it really mostly comes down to what kind of potatoes did you use for your mashed potatoes recipe. Two most common potatoes are Russets and Yukon Golds, which one to choose? For this recipe – we call it the best mashed potatoes recipes we have chosen Yukon Gold.

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Fast, Easy, Basic Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Prep time: 30 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Most of the mashed potatoes recipes are easy, but with this one I will try to cut out all of my babbling and just stick to the facts. Ups…well here I go again…

Ingredients

2 pounds russet or red potatoes
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
3/4 to 1 cup milk
salt and pepper

Instructions

Peel potatoes.
Cut them in 4 pieces and cover with cold water.
Boil and then simmer the potatoes in salted water until they are soft and tender (15-20minutes).
Drain potatoes, put them back on low heat for a minute or so.
Take them off.
Add butter and milk.
Mash the potatoes until they are smooth and add some more salt and pepper for the taste (try them).
That’s it.

Simple Mashed potatoes

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Sweet Potatoes Recipe | Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Hey potato lovers. This recipe will be a bit different. I found a few sweet potato recipes on the net and this one I liked best. Why? Hmmm…. since I dedicated this blog to mashed potatoes recipes, maybe it has something to do with the fact that this is a mashed sweet potatoes recipe. lol. Or maybe not. OK, let’s start, what do we need?

Sweet Potatoes Recipe | Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Prep time: 30 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Ingredients

4 pounds sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon chili powder
2 teaspoons cumin seeds (if you hate cumin you can skip it, I hate it)
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper (freshly ground)

Instructions

First turn on the oven and set it to 350 degrees F (180 C). Yes, with this mashed sweet potatoes recipe we will be using an oven and we will not be cooking potatoes in water.
Now take the potatoes and pierce each one of them a few times with the fork. This will make little holes that will let the water evaporate and heat penetrate the potatoes. Tun your sweet potatoes on the oven rack and roast them. How do you know they are done? It’s the same thing as with cooking them. Actually – potatoes are always done when they become soft and tender. You can test this by piercing them again with the fork or a knife. Generally it should take 45 minutes to 1 hour for potatoes to be done.
Now take them from the oven and let them cool down for a while so you don’t burn yourself when you peel them and cut them.
minutes later…
OK, now peel them and cut them into pieces. How big should the pieces be? It doesn’t matter :) we will be smashing the sweet potatoes anyway. Put sweet potatoes into a bowl, add butter and smash them with a wire smasher, potato ricer…etc… You can leave some lumps and bumps if you like, or you can make them smooth.
And to finish this of – add the rest of the ingredients. Add chili powder, ground cumin, ginger, maple syrup, salt and pepper. Use a big spoon or something to mix this into your mashed sweet potatoes and you are done.

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Garlic Mashed Potatoes Recipe

If you don’t mind garlic breath then you will love garlic mashed potatoes :) …no, this is not the best way to start this garlic mashed potatoes recipe. Lets start this way. Adding garlic to mashed potatoes is great, it makes them tastier, gives them a special twist and it’s pretty easy to do. So if you are after something a little bit different when it comes to mashed potatoes – try garlic mashed potatoes.

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Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes Recipe

This is another simple way to make mashed potatoes taste a bit different. Instead of cream and ordinary milk we will be using buttermilk and so I call this the buttermilk mashed potatoes recipe. All the same tips and tricks that I already mentioned in other mashed potatoes recipes apply here. So make sure you cover potatoes with cold water, after you drain them put them back on the stove at low heat to evaporate excess water, just make like four pieces from each potato, if you make smaller pieces they will suck in more water and don’t over mash them. Right, I’ll include these along the way so don’t worry.

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Yukon Golds Or Russets For Mashed Potatoes Recipe?

I already wrote about what kind of potatoes to choose for mashed potatoes. But since this was more of a general look into the types of potatoes this is where I will try to get specific. I browsed the Internet looking for different suggestion – which potato variety is best for mashed potatoes. It seems that two most commonly used are Yukon Gold and Russets. And the general consent is that Yukon Gold is best. Why?

Bot Russets and Yukon Golds are starchy potatoes – that means lots of starch and less water. What does that mean? More starch means fuller potato cells which give fluffier texture.

But still, just comparing Russets and Yukon Golds, Russets have more starch than Yukon Golds, which are more of all-purpose potatoes. And most cooks say they are best for making mashed potatoes. So if you can get them, try them. If not, don’t worry, your mashed potatoes recipe will taste just fine.

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How To Mash The Potatoes

In every mashed potato recipe come a time when you have to mash the potatoes. The moment comes somewhere between cooking and eating them :). Right. Apart from this obvious fact, what do you need to know about mashing the potatoes? There are a few techniques and tools that give a bit different results. They influence the texture of the mashed potatoes. Three most commonly used tools are wire masher, potato ricer and electric mixer.

Wire Masher

Wire masher is the most common tool for making mashed potatoes. You use your hand power to squash and mash the potatoes and the more you work them, the smoother the potatoes will be.

Potato Ricer

Potato ricer looks like and oversized garlic press. Potato ricer mashes the potatoes by forcing them through small holes on the bottom. These holes are often not much larger than a grain of rice. There are a few different types of potato ricers. The most basic potato ricer consists of a grid on a handle. You pres the grid against a flat surface (like the bottom of the pan) and put the potato in between. The second type is the before mentioned – one that looks like a giant garlic press. And the last and most “evolved” is called a food mill. Potatoes (or other food) are driven toward the grid by a large screw, kind of like with the meat grinder. I guess this is to complicated for a simple mashed potato recipe. So if you are using potato ricer use the second one – the one that looks like garlic press.

Potato ricer makes mashed potatoes smoother that wire masher. And finally…

Electric mixer

I won’t be explaining what an electric mixer is (duh), but I will tell you what potato mixer does. First it makes mashed potatoes really really smooth and secondly it also makes them lighter, fluffier by mixing air into the mashed potatoes.

These were the basic tools for making mashed potatoes, you need one of them with every mashed potato recipe. Maybe one more thing – if you are more of a nature man, camping out or if you simply do not have any of the tools above – a simple fork will do as well. You will have to work harder for worse result but if you have no other option you can mash your potatoes with a fork.

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