How to make mashed potatoes - creamy mashed potatoes recipe
Hello and welcome back to in the kitchen with matt.
I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today I will show you how to make creamy mashed potatoes, mmm yummy.
They are simple, easy to do, I had a request from my friend Yasmine over in Kuwait, to
make some creamy mashed potatoes, so here we go, let's make some creamy mashed potatoes.
Let's get started.
Okay, first let's get started with one and a half pounds of Yukon Gold Potatoes.
Yukon Gold potatoes really make a good creamy mashed potatoes, you can use russets or any
potato really, but here in the United States, the Yukon is really a great potato for creamy
mashed potatoes.
What we are going to do is peel the skin off, cut out the eyes, and cut it up in little
squares.
Okay once we have washed, peeled and cut up our potatoes, we are going to go ahead and
take a large pot and put them in there.
And then we are going to take cold water and fill it up about an inch higher then our potatoes.
And now we are going to add one tsp. of salt.
Now let's take this over to the stovetop to boil.
Now let's turn our stovetop on high and we are going to bring this to a boil.
Once our potatoes are boiling we are going to turn out heat onto low, and then what we
are going to do is we are going to cover it, and we are going to let it simmer for 15 to
20 minutes until the potatoes are nice and soft when you poke a fork in them.
Alright it has been about 20 minutes, go ahead and pull that off, take a fork in there, it
is really nice and easy to poke that potato.
It's nice and ready to go, and now we want to go ahead and drain these potatoes.
All right now we transfer the potatoes to a large bowl, then we are going to take two
tablespoons of butter, and I am actually using my homemade butter, I made this yesterday,
there is a video that I have that you can see on how to make you own homemade butter
it's really easy to do, check that out, two tablespoons of butter and then one quarter
cup of heavy cream, add those together.
And then let's go ahead and heat this up in the microwave, 20 to 25 seconds at a time,
until the butter is melted.
All right, and now we are going to use a potato masher and mash these potatoes together.
If you don't have a potato masher I will put a link down below where you can pick one up,
I got mine at Walmart, a couple of bucks, pretty cheap.
And just go ahead and start mashing with our potato masher.
Okay and then we will add our melted butter and cream mixture, we will just use our masher
here again a little bit, and you just keep on mashing.
At this point, I am going to add just some milk, you can leave it like that if you like,
I am going to add a little bit of milk, I have about 2 to 3 tablespoons of milk.
And I am going to start with just a tablespoon of milk, and with a wooden spoon go ahead
and stir this nicely.
And the amount of milk that you use is totally up to you.
I want to add just a little bit more.
Let's do just a little bit more, wind up doing all of it.
So that was about 2, 2.5, 3 tablespoons of milk.
And if you have some more clumps, just grab your masher and keep mashing it, if you want.
Give it a little taste.
Mmm, yummy.
At this point I am going to do some salt, a couple shakes of salt, and a couple shakes
of pepper.
I don't like to heavily season it, because I like each individual to be able to season
it, the way that they like it.
So I just add a little bit of the salt and pepper to begin with, and then let each individual
season it.
Just give it a good mix.
And there we go, nice creamy mashed potatoes.
All right our creamy mashed potatoes are done.
They were really easy to do, if I can make them, you can make them.
I am Matt Taylor, this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for
joining me, as always if you have any questions or comments, put them down below and I will
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