How To Make Garlic Mashed Potatoes

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier with unsaturated fats.

cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: milk

Greek yogurt adds creaminess with fewer calories.

Chop and boil 8 cups of potatoes until steaming hot.

Microwave cream, milk, and butter before adding to the potatoes.

Drain the potatoes and give them a good shake to dry them.

Add the potatoes back to the pot they were cooked in.

Pour melted butter over the potatoes, incorporating it a little at a time to avoid gumminess.

Add about a tablespoon of salt, recommending to use salt in the water when boiling the potatoes.

Combine half and half and heavy whipping cream, pouring slowly into the mashed potatoes until desired consistency is reached.

Add minced garlic and a little pepper to the mixture.

Taste the mashed potatoes and adjust seasonings as necessary.

Use a mixer briefly to eliminate lumps.

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