And if all or part of your potatoes are green? Toss them. Green potatoes may contain high levels of solanine—a chemical that not only tastes bad, but can also make you sick. You want your mashed potatoes smooth and silky, not thick and chewy. Why does it happen? You could be using the wrong potatoes. Choose starchy potatoes or a mixture of waxy and starchy potatoes. The lesson here? For mashed potatoes that are smooth without being gummy, a potato ricer is your best bet.
If you choose to use an electric mixer, add your butter and milk toward the beginning of the mixing, and mix gently, stopping as soon as the potatoes are smooth. You can also use a potato masher, but this will produce more rustic potatoes, not a smooth mash. Whipping potatoes too vigorously with a hand mixer or putting them in a food processor can result in something akin to wallpaper paste.
To achieve the desired light, fluffy texture, use high-starch potatoes like russets or Yukon golds and mash them gently by hand to prevent the release of excess starch. You can probably salvage slightly gummy potatoes. Sprinkle 2 tbsp flour evenly across the surface of the mashed potatoes, assuming you started with 0. Fold the flour and butter into the potatoes with a spatula, scraping from the bottom of the bowl and mixing towards the centre.
Dot the surface with 2 tbsp butter. Bake the casserole at degrees Celsius for 30 minutes, or until browned on top and hot throughout. This assumes you started with 0. Flip it over to lightly coat both sides with flour. Repeat to form eight pancakes. Pan fry the potato pancakes in the skillet until golden brown on one side, approximately five to eight minutes.
Flip and repeat on the other side. Transfer the pancakes to a plate lined with paper towels to drain excess grease. Serve immediately with gravy or a dab of butter, or use the pancake as a base for a piece of meat or fish. Mashed potatoes should be three things: creamy, lump-free and seasoned to perfection.
Follow these ten tips to bring your spuds from school cafeteria slop to 5 star restaurant quality. Potato peels can be oh-so messy. To prevent skin and dirt getting all over your cutting board, place a large sheet of plastic wrap on the board. Peel your potatoes onto the plastic wrap and once the potatoes are all peeled, grab the plastic by the corners and bring them together, catching all the peels and disposing of them.
Rinse the potatoes after peeling to make sure there is no residual bits of grainy dirt. As you cut the potatoes, put them in a pot or bowl of cool water to prevent browning. If the water seems to be getting brown, discard the water and refill the bowl with clean water. Cooking potatoes is different from cooking carrots.
For instance, you can drop carrots into boiling water and they will cook rather quickly. However, if you dropped diced potatoes into boiling water the outside can become mushy before the middle is anywhere near cooked. Yuck, right? Instead, start potatoes off in cold water and bring it to a simmer. This allows for a more gradual cooking, which penetrates to the center of the potato before the outside has a chance to get mushy.
There has been a debate on whether to add salt to the beginning with the cold water or once the water has started boiling.
Plus, this way the potatoes are seasoned right through the cooking process, making it more even and flavorful. While there are bushels of potato types to pick from, we suggest using starchy potatoes if you are planning on mashing them.
The starch breaks down more easily, thus creating creamier mashed potatoes. Look for Idaho and Russets in particular. The best way to make sure your potatoes cook evenly is to cut them into uniform sizes. Small enough so they cook fast but not too small that it takes forever to chop. After draining the cooked potatoes put the potatoes back in the pot, turn the heat to medium, and stir occasionally letting the potatoes dry out for a few minutes.
This leads to more flavorful and less waterlogged potatoes. You can tell the potatoes are fully dry when the bottom of the pan looks starchy, kind of like white flour on the bottom. Before adding milk or cream to your potatoes, pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds to heat it up. The added heat not only absorbs better into the potatoes, but keeps your potatoes nice and warm. Stick to the basics; a potato masher and some arm strength. Looking for something absolutely lump-free?
Try a potato ricer! Too much mashing can turn into a gluey mess. Potatoes keep warm very well! You can make your mashed potatoes twenty minutes in advance. Place the mashed potatoes in a warm bowl and cover with foil.
Here are ten time-tested ways to rescue your meal from the brink of disaster. Your guests will never need to know. The fix? Warm some turkey or chicken stock, transfer it to a food-safe spray bottle and generously spritz your platter of carved meat. Alternatively, drizzle it on with a spoon. For really dry meat, put the carved pieces in a baking dish, pour stock over them, cover with foil and bake at degrees F until warmed through, about 10 minutes.
The warm broth will seep into the meat, making each bite juicier. A pound frozen turkey can take up to three days to thaw in the fridge. Forgot to take yours out in time? No worries. You can speed up thawing by sealing the bird well and submerging it in cold water an ice cooler works well for this.
Change the water often and make sure it is cold. If the turkey is still not fully thawed on the big day, cut it in half between the breasts or into eighths. Place the turkey pieces on a rimmed baking sheet with aromatic vegetables and herbs, then roast until the internal temperature reaches degrees F. The breast pieces will cook faster than the dark meat, so be sure to take them out earlier.
To moisten overcooked stuffing, combine melted butter and turkey or chicken broth in a bowl, then baste the mixture over the dry stuffing. Cover with foil, return it to the oven and bake for a few minutes until a little steamy. To thicken up a soupy gravy, combine equal parts flour and water in a bowl to form a paste. Bring your gravy to a boil and whisk in dollops of the paste until the mixture thickens to the desired consistency. A cornstarch-and-water paste will also do the trick.
Normally you should small and taste them before adding into the dish. If the liquid you add is cooking water, the potatoes will be bland and will dry out very fast. Always add milk, be it dairy or plant-based. Another reason for dry mashed potatoes is the cold. This is because the starch is a very good binder and keeps the shape of the mashed potatoes intact. Paired with the butter that is now cold in the mash, you get stiff, dry-looking mashed potatoes. Simply reheat in a somewhat deep plate, with another plate on top as a cover.
Reheat on medium, and stir the whole thing every now and then. The perfect mashed potato needs the prefect, starchy potato. Waxy potatoes are better to keep whole, as they have a denser structure and will get you a very lumpy mashed potato. Gift Guide. Mariah Carey. Taylor Swift. Holy Nostalgia, Charlie Brown! Now You Know. Customize Select the topics that interest you:. Get it wrong, however, and mashed potatoes can be a culinary nightmare. Have you ever ended up with a glue-like mulch where your mashed potatoes were supposed to be?
How could you have messed up something as easy as boiling a few spuds? Well, it has happened to me, and now I know why. According to the experts, there are a few key factors in reaching peak creamy mashed potatoes as opposed to sticky spuds. Susan Chen, writing for PopSugar. She recommends Yukon Gold for their flavour and consistency.
Over on TheKitchn. The next, and perhaps most crucial step, is the mashing, and Martha Stewart gives us a clue into the science-y bit in an article on her website called How to make mashed potatoes — and how to fix them when things go wrong. Top tips regularly point to pairing the spuds with cheese, to create a topping for gratin, as grilled cheese has a remarkable ability to cover a multitude of sins. See a sample. Exclusive competitions and restaurant offers, plus reviews, the latest food and drink news, recipes and lots more.
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