Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

• About 1 kg/2¼ lb starchy (floury) potatoes
• 60 g/4 tablespoons butter
• 60 ml/¼ cup milk, half-and-half, or light cream
• Salt
• Pepper
• Nutmeg (optional)

Steps

1. Peel the potatoes and dice them into pieces about 2–3 cm/1 inch thick.
2. Place the potatoes with about 1 tablespoon of salt into a pot and add about 1.5 liters/1½ quarts of water.
3. Boil the potatoes for about 15–20 minutes or until tender, then drain.
4. Either:
5. Put through a potato ricer, then stir in the butter and milk or cream; or
6. Add the butter and milk or cream, then mash with a potato masher.
7. Add salt, pepper and (if you like) nutmeg to taste.
8. Serve hot. Yields 4 servings.

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Adapted from “Mashed Potatoes” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.