Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Garlic Mashed Potatoes are a nice accompaniment to roasted meats, such as chicken or beef or pork.
Ingredients
- 5 medium sized potatoes - One potato for each person, plus one for the pot
- ½ Tsp salt
- 3 cloves garlic - depending on your taste and the number of potatoes that you are cooking
- ⅓ cup milk - depending on the starchiness of the potatoes and the number that you are cooking
- freshly grated nutmeg to taste
- freshly ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Peel the potatoes and cut into pieces about the size of golf balls. Rinse them and then put them in a pot and add the garlic cloves that have been peeled. Add about 1/2 tsp of salt and add water to cover the potatoes by about one inch.
- Put the pot on a burner and bring to a boil over a high heat. Cover the pot and reduce the heat to medium to cook the potatoes. Cook for about 25 minutes or until they are fork tender. Take them off the heat and drain them.
- Add the butter, salt, nutmeg and milk to the steaming potatoes which are now drained, but still in the cooking pot. Using a hand mixer or potato masher, blend the mixture together until it is nice and fluffy. You might need to add more milk, if the mixture is a little dry.
Notes
A rule of thumb is to always start cooking vegetables that grow in the ground (e.g. potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnip etc.) in a pot of cold water, that you bring to a boil. Vegetables that grow above the ground should be added to a pot of boiling water.