# Real Mashed Potatoes

This is the only way to make mashed potatoes.

- Total time: 1 min
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 7 potatoes
- 7 cups water
- 1 part cream
- 2 parts milk
- 10 black peppercorns
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tsp thyme
- 0.5 potato weight butter
- 1 pinch salt

## Instructions

1. Cut a circle around the potatoes and put them in cold water.
2. Put them on the stove.
3. In a pot, add one part cream and two parts milk and the rest of the ingredients. Leave this to infuse in the stove in low heat while the potatoes are boiling.
4. Strain the infused cream and milk mix.
5. Once the potatoes are tender, drain the water and leave them in the pot to steam for at least five to ten minutes.
6. Dry the potatoes with paper towels.
7. Press the potatoes through a potato ricer.
8. Pass the potatoes through a sieve.
9. Add in the warm infused milk and incorporate it nicely and easily.
10. Slowly add in the butter, approximately half of your potato weight.
11. Add the salt.

## Equipment

- knife
- pot
- stove
- sieve
- bowl
- potato ricer
- wooden spoon

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/_r4-mH2Bb
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/64c2b4aa-ca50-4000-929c-427cded66db0
- Extracted: 2025-02-26

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