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| Mashed Potatoes (with skins) |
Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot
Makes 8-12 servingsINGREDIENTS
3 lbs size B butter golds potatoes
2 C cashew milk
2 tsp KCl
DIRECTIONS
Wash/scrub potatoes, removing potato eyes. Quarter the potatoes into an IP-sized strainer. (The one I use is at the link. It's not an affiliate link but it is Amazon Smile.)
Pour 1C water into Instant Pot liner. Put the strainer with the potatoes in it into the liner.
Manual 9 min NPR. (That's the "manual" button, use - or + button to adjust to 9 min, and allow the pressure to release naturally before opening the lid.)
Remove strainer with the potatoes. Empty pot liner of water. Dump potatoes into it. (If you don't want the skins in, this is the time to peel the potatoes. You can actually pull the skins off by hand. It's tedious, though, for all three pounds of potatoes.)
Use a potato masher to mash up the potatoes. When you're about a third of the way done, add the milk and salt and mash the rest of the way until you get a consistency and texture you like.
Want potato soup instead? Increase the milk amount and you get potato soup!
NOTES
If you care about the nutritional value/are counting calories/etc:
Put into storage glass container (weighing while you do so). Divide final weight by 12 to get the grams per serving. (Usually at 160 g).
NUTRITIONAL INFO
based on 12 servings
Calories 88
Fat 0.3 g
Carbs 20 g
Protein 2.5 g
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Okay, here's the trick to these potatoes. You don't need to add butter but you must use the "butter golds" brand of potatoes. They've been bred to have a butter flavor in the potato itself. Any other potato isn't going to taste quite right.
I came up with this recipe all by myself in that it's not modified from anyone else's on the net, but I got the time amount from seeing the variation in other people's mashed potato recipes and fiddling with it till I got the one I liked; and the milk and salt just come from my mom's old way of making potato soup / mashed potatoes.
But I think that's how all recipes start--you want to make your own cobbler, so you make a guess at how long to cook it based on other cobbler recipes. I wonder how the first person to make something did it. Just guessed low and kept adding time, I suppose.
