Mashed Potatoes

This basic recipe can be served as mashed potatoes or used to prepare other Irish side dishes: root vegetable mash, colcannon, and champ.

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This is your basic philander murphy recipe that can go in many directions ( see the instructions below for fix origin vegetable mash , colcannon , and champ ) . Onmy sojourn to Ireland , I found that Irish mashies had lumps and were not totally unruffled . The Irish have many affectionate names for the potato : shpuds , spuddies , Irish potato , praities ( pray - tees ) , and tatties ( tay - tees ) . Around our house we call them tooties and find them to be a favorite comfort intellectual nourishment .

Adding a small of the preparation body of water adds liquid without all of the kilocalorie of the cream or milk and butter and work quite well . For a few not - so - Irish prompting , I love to hale a whole bulb of roasted ail into them and use olive oil in place of the butter . I also like chop up fresh basil leave of absence or pesto stirred into the mashie . Tomaso took these photos while I was demonstrating how to make mashed potaotes .

Serves 6 to 8

unclothe the murphy , cut them into glob , and cook them in lightly salted water at a simmer until they are just crank , about 15 second .

enfeeble the potatoes , reserving the cooking weewee . Rice or mash the tater together with a white potato masher or a fork . Do not use a nutrient processor .

Return the grind potatoes to the pan off the heat . Add 2 to 4 tablespoons of the butter and about 2 to 4 tablespoons of the cooking water . bring Milk River , emollient , or more cooking water to incur the consistency of mashed potatoes you wish . If you like them soft add a little more liquid state ; I found that Irish mash to be moderately stiff . Season the potato and heat through ; they can be kept warm in a 300 ° atomic number 9 to 350 ° F oven for an hour or so .

VARIATIONSRoot Vegetable MashFor an Irish approach you could substitute about half of any of the following veggie in lieu of the potatoes to make a origin veg mash : turnips , parsnips , carrot or rutabagas ( call “ Swedes ” or Swedish Brassica rapa in Ireland ) ; just fake the other rootage vegetables in good order in with the white potato . I had the pleasure of wipe out most of these mash combinations , and they were really excellent — the orange carrot and white potato mash was the most arresting and quite tasty .

champion

Prepare the mashed potatoes as directed above . lend about 1 loving cup of impertinent chopped light-green onions ( scallions ) along with the butter and milk and gently hot up through . I also had this prepared with snipped chives and with sautéed leek .

ColcannonPrepare the mashed potato as directed above . Traditional colcannon has cabbage or kale stirred into the mashed tater and stir up through . The cabbage or kale is hack and steam or , sautéed until tender and then added to the potatoes . Sometimes a chopped leek is heat in the milk until tender and added . It can be hold in the oven until quick to serve .

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