How can I make mashed potatoes that actually taste good?

Question

I want to know what ingredient i can mix to make it soft and creamy with a normal potatoe.

Answer 1

8-10 medium size red potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup milk (about)
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt(optional)
salt and pepper, to taste

Wash potatoes. Cut, unpeeled and boil until tender.
With an electric mixer on medium speed, mash potatoes. Do not overbeat. Add ingredients, beating until creamy. Add more milk if needed to get the correct consistency.

Answer 2

Cook the potatoes on the stove by boiling them first. Once boiled to a soft consistency, drain the water and place potatoes in a large mixing bowl. Add salt, pepper, butter and milk to taste. The butter should be about 1 tablespoon, and the milk should be just enough to make the potatoes creamy when you mash them. You can either use a fork or potato masher, or use a hand mixer. Good mashed potatoes just come from practice. But the milk will make them nice and creamy.

Answer 3

What you can do is peel and cut your potatoes into big cubes and boil them in water. When they're cooked (stick a knife in one to see if it's soft), drain off the water. Then put in some butter and milk, but let it sit with the warm potatoes for a bit so the butter melts and the milk warms up. (Or, you could warm the milk a bit and then add it.) Then, your choice: use an electric beater, a hand-held potato masher, or a ricer, although most people probably wouldn't have a ricer around. How soft and creamy you want them is up to you. Start with a smaller amount of milk and add more if you feel you need it.

Answer 4

Use baking potatoes (not red skinned or new)

Warm up you milk, Half and Half, butter (melt it), sour cream etc. This keeps the cold ingredients from making the hot potatoes pasty and sticky. Just put them all in a MW-safe measurng cup and nuke a couple minutes.

Adding a block of cream cheese (depending upon how much you're making, of course) will make the potatoes creamy in flavor and whiter in color.

Use kosher salt; it has a milder flavor than table salt.

Mash by hand rather than by mixer... use a sturdy metal potato masher adn slolwy add your warmed ingreients as you mash

Taste for S&P and adjust before serving!

Answer 5

There are many ways to make mashed potatoes taste great even if your are using boxed dry potatoes. But it is pretty much up to you and who you are serving. Have a favorite seasoning? Garlic for example...put some in...love bacon? Add some real bacon bits. Potatoes are a great food canvas..they are such a simple flavor themselves.....they make a great base for some spectacular blends of flavors. A little extra cream(or milk) and butter or margarine go a long way for making "plain" mashed potatoes tastier, if you want to keep it simple. Good Luck!

Answer 6

Sweety make sure you use a good potato...I prefer Yukon Gold...then when it's boiled soft drain it, add butter or margarine and add milk as you mash to a nice very soft consistency. Serve immediately.

If you want a more salty flavourful type of mashed potato...boil the potatoes in chicken stock or put some chicken soup powder into the water...some people cut of the tops of a few garlic cloves, bake them and then squeeze the soft pulp out of the garlic and mash them in with the potatos too.

I like mine simple as I like to serve them with gravy...there's probably other ways to do them but that's what I do.

Answer 7

Roast an entire pod of garlic in the oven (cut off the top first), until the inside is soft. Squish it out into the potatoes that have been boiled in chicken boullion and drained. Push through a potato ricer. (Kinda like a huge garlic press). Add cream that you have heated with a large sprig of rosemary in. Add butter, sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. Whip with electic mixer.

Answer 8

sour cream makes wonderful mashed potatoes. Per approximately 3-1/2 to 4 lbs of potatoes add about 16 oz of sour cream, don't forget to add lots of butter. Use a small hand mixer and add milk to get the right consistency.

Answer 9

milk little bit more milk you may not be putting enough milk in the mashed potatoes and put butter in it also. Salt and pepper. When boiling them make sure they are so soft that a fork can just break them apart that is when they are done and can be drained and mixed with a blender. When you are mixing put a little bit of milk couple of splashes of milk 2-3 table spoons butter and put salt and pepper in it. it will taste good.

Answer 10

add milk and butter and some chicken broth make sure the potatoes are boiled completely before you mash them. Mixing them with a mixer helps make them creamy