Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
These Cheesy Mashed Potatoes are creamy, filling and delicious. It's made with seven ingredients. Serve at Thanksgiving, Christmas or Sunday lunch all year round!
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 363kcal
Equipment
- Saucepan
- Sieve
- wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 1 kg Potatoes
- 3.5 tablespoon unsalted butter Add more or less to your preferred taste!
- ¾ cup milk
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder to taste
- 50 g grated cheese optional, cheddar works well
- herbs of your choice to garnish
Instructions
- Wash and peel potatoes
- Add potatoes to a large saucepan. Fill the saucepan enough cold water to cover the potatoes.
- Bring to a boil. Then cook on a low/medium heat for 15-20 minutes.
- Once the potatoes are cooked drain out all of the water.
- Add ¼ of the potatoes to a sieve and use a wooden spoon to push them through into the sauce pan. Repeat this step for the remaining potatoes.
- Use a wooden spoon to push the mashed potatoes to one side of the sauce pan. In the same saucepan (in the space you've just created), add unsalted butter, milk, salt , pepper, garlic powder and cheese. Heat until they begin to bubble.
- Turn off the heat and mix all of the ingredients in the saucepan together (adjust seasoning if necessary).
- Plate up, add butter, a pinch of salt and pepper and garnish with fresh herbs.
Notes
Batch: Feel free to half, double or triple the ingredients in this recipe to feed more or less people.
Nutrition
Serving: 321g | Calories: 363kcal | Carbohydrates: 46.6g | Protein: 9.73g | Fat: 16.03g | Saturated Fat: 9.724g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.755g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4.043g | Trans Fat: 0.555g | Cholesterol: 44mg | Sodium: 196mg | Potassium: 1135mg | Fiber: 5.6g | Sugar: 4.32g | Vitamin A: 514IU | Vitamin C: 49.3mg | Calcium: 170mg | Iron: 2.03mg