The Best Mashed Potatoes | Irish Gaelic Patato Ricer

I've e'er struggled amongst mashed potatoes.  Not eating them.  Making them.  Not beingness able to main the perfectly polish together with creamy mashed potatoes, I went amongst the lazy man's 'smashed potato'... a globe without peeling, where lumps are welcome, expected together with encouraged.  They're good.  They produce the undertaking - merely they ofttimes demand jazzing upward - garlic, sour cream, rosemary, etc. to detract from the fact that they are basically a busted upward tater together with lack whatever desirable texture.

"Real" mashed potatoes, amongst their smooth, creamy together with light-as-air texture demand nothing.  No sour cream, no cheese, no herbs.  Simple.  If it has been a piece since y'all convey had "real" mashed potatoes, y'all may non fifty-fifty know what I'm talking about.  You mightiness last thinking, "but the cheese, garlic together with sour cream are what brand mashed potatoes together with therefore good."  Silly girl.  Real mashed potatoes are correct upward at that spot amongst heirloom tomatoes together with modest summertime strawberries.  Natural. Real. Simple.  Nothing merely a splash of milk, dab of butter, tabular array salt together with pepper.

How produce y'all accomplish this unattainable mashed tater dream?  Enter, Potato Ricer.  For years I've heard the Barefoot Contessa beak close using her tater ricer.  I thought, "Do I actually demand a specialized slice of equipment to squeeze a potato?!"  (Remember, you're talking to mortal that rolled out 100 carbohydrate cookies a calendar week amongst a bottle of vino together with that used a teacup for measuring...)  When he saw me mashing potatoes amongst a can, Mike said, Yes.  Yes, y'all produce demand a specialized slice of equipment to squeeze a potato.  Then the most amazing affair happened... a tater ricer appeared inwards my stocking from Santa.

We've had mashed potatoes three times inwards the by nine days.

Now run out together with larn this mashed tater ricer.  It is on sale for $16 at Williams-Sonoma... Mike paid total toll ($32) for mine.  Ugh.  Still worth every penny.

The Best Mashed Potatoes
creamy, light... existent mashed potatoes

ii pounds of Yukon Gold potatoes
1/4 loving cup of milk
ii tablespoons of butter
body of body of water tabular array salt & cracked pepper

Peel the potatoes together with cutting them into 1-inch pieces.  Place them pot filled amongst water, seasoned amongst salt.  Bring the H2O to a boil together with laid until the potatoes are fork tender - close 7-10 minutes.  Drain the potatoes from the water.  Using the tater ricer, squeeze potatoes dorsum into the sauce pan.  Return the potatoes to the stove.  On depression heat, stir inwards milk, butter, tabular array salt together with pepper.  Do non operate out the potatoes on the stove for longer than five minutes, or they volition burn.  To reheat, microwave them inwards a drinking glass bowl. 

Mashed Potatoes become cracking amongst :

Pan-Seared Lemon Garlic Chicken
Pancetta Sugar Snap Peas (coming soon!)

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