How To Make Slow Cooked Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are a classic comfort food. This recipe simplifies it with the use of a slow cooker. The potatoes come out perfectly creamy and garlicky.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4lbsred potatoes,cleaned and rinsed, peeled or unpeeled, cut into 1½ inch pieces
- ½cupwater
- 1tspsalt,or to taste
- ½tsppepper,or to taste
- 1½tbspgarlic,(4 cloves), minced
- ¼cupbutter,melted
- ⅔cupsour cream
- ½cupcream,warmed in the microwave
- ½cupmilk,warmed in the microwave, or as desired
- chives and butter,minced, for serving, optional
Instructions
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Spray a 6 to 7-quart slow cooker with non-stick spray. Place potatoes in the slow cooker then pour water evenly over top.
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Toss with salt and pepper then add garlic and pour butter evenly over potatoes and garlic. Cover and cook on High heat for 4 to 4½ hours, or until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork (don’t drain!).
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Mash potatoes with a potato masher then add sour cream and heavy cream.
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Whip with an electric hand mixer until the desired texture is reached while adding in milk to reach desired consistency.
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Serve warm with more butter and minced chives if desired.
Nutrition
- Calories: 271.49kcal
- Fat: 15.34g
- Saturated Fat: 9.39g
- Trans Fat: 0.29g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.03g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.70g
- Carbohydrates: 30.73g
- Fiber: 3.15g
- Sugar: 3.75g
- Protein: 4.55g
- Cholesterol: 44.73mg
- Sodium: 283.88mg
- Calcium: 62.13mg
- Potassium: 881.42mg
- Iron: 1.40mg
- Vitamin A: 142.73µg
- Vitamin C: 16.21mg
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