I need you to pinky swear you are not going to laugh right now...promise?!? Alright, here is goes - I have never made fresh mashed potatoes before! That's right, I forced my family to eat those repulsive flaky dried instant potatoes. Disgusting, I know. Now I have made a baked potato and pan fried diced potatoes but never have I mashed a potato! So today I used the recipe for Garlic Mashed Potatoes from my Kitchenaid mixer recipe booklet that came with the machine. And let me tell you something. I was afraid for no reason. So simple and if I can just toot my own horn here for a second they were AMAZING toot toot!
Ingedients:
5 large potatoes (about 2 1/2 lbs), peeled, quartered, and boiled
1/2 cup low fat milk (heated)
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
(kitchenaid recipe book)
Directions:
Step 1: Warm mixer bowl with hot water
Step 2: Place warm potatoes in the bowl
Step 3: Use flat beater and gradually turn to speed 2 for about 1 minute or until smooth
Step 4: Add remaining ingredients and turn to speed 4 beat approx 30 seconds then turn to speed 6 for 1 minute
Step 5: Exchange flat beater for wire whip and turn to speed 10 for 2 to 3 minutes
Tips:
*TASTE THE POTATOES! You may need a little more salt or a little more milk. Be a tester before you serve bland mush.
*make sure you dice the potatoes, don't quarter them. They will take longer to boil and will not be as easy to mash.
I am not laughing! I know I didn't get the itch to really start cooking until Brayden was old enough to eat it. Then I went nuts. You are right on track! It is oh so satisfying to make meals your family loves.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chelsea! I honestly make about 5 different meals for my family. Hopefully I will broaden the scope this year. The recipes on here are stictly mixer ones, which makes it THAT much more difficult. I can't be making baked goods daily or my poor family and friends will gain 20lbs by March! SO if you have any meals/treats/etc that you would like to share I am all ears!!!
ReplyDelete5 is great! I started out with one. Lasagna. I made it until we could no longer speak the word! So I went online & started trying a new recipe every week. If we all liked it, it went on my list! I broke it into categories: chicken, pasta, beef, meatless. Pretty soon I had a TON of options! My fav is allrecipes.com. I even bought their cookbook so I wouldn't have to print them all out. They have them in categories & they're all rated. I always pick the ones with 4-5 stars so i know my chances will be good :) keep it up!!
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