Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy garlic mashed potatoes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
I love mashed potatoes and I usually make my own version that's very similar to this one. I replace the garlic with garlic oil that my hubby makes (chop up lots of garlic and fry it in veggie oil till golden). We put this in a lot of our asian dishes but it tastes especially good in mashed potatoes.
Easy Garlic Mashed potatoes is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy Garlic Mashed potatoes is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook easy garlic mashed potatoes using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Garlic Mashed potatoes:
- Take 6 medium peeled potatoes, cut into quarters
- Prepare Tsp salt
- Get 1 stick butter or margarine
- Take 1/2 cup sour cream
- Prepare Enough milk to thin potatoes to your taste, a splash at a time
- Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
- Get 1 tsp, more or less, garlic powder
Squeeze softened garlic into blender; cover and process until blended. Drain potatoes; place in a large bowl. Place potatoes and garlic into a large saucepan full of cold water. Check potatoes for doneness by poking a few wedges with a fork or skewer–if still firm, cook another minute or two and check again.
Instructions to make Easy Garlic Mashed potatoes:
- Put chopped potatoes in a medium sauce pan and just cover with water. Add salt to the water and boil potatoes on medium heat til tender. About 20 minutes.
- When tender, drain potatoes and return them to the pot, add the stick of butter, put the lid on and let it melt.
- Once butter melts, I unlid and mash well with a potato masher. Add sour cream, salt, pepper, and garlic powder and mash some more. Add milk as needed, a splash at a time, until you get the consistency you want.
- I add 1 tbsp of butter to melt on top and return the lid.
Garlic mashed potatoes, to me anyways, is the bees knees, only topped by mashed potatoes smothered in delicious thanksgiving turkey gravy. The only problem, however, is actually making truly garlicky, yet easy garlic mashed potatoes. The addition of raw garlic is far to pungent, leading to an unappetizing mash. This is my secret recipe for Garlic Mashed potatoes, reverse engineered from a certain Italian restaurant. I guarantee that these are the best potatoes you've ever tasted.
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