This holiday season, America's Test Kitchen is here to help you make the perfect mashed potatoes with a time-saving hack. Discover how to ditch the traditional method and achieve creamy, delicious results in just 12 minutes.
A holiday meal without mashed potatoes is like Santa Claus without a beard. It's obvious something's missing. Potatoes, in general, are a beloved vegetable. When they're on the holiday table, they play so well with all the other dishes there.'Let's say you have a roast or turkey along with the mashed potatoes . It just brings it all together. Add some gravy to that and I mean, come on, you're singing at that point!' But mashed potatoes can be tricky to prepare.
It's easy to make them too dry or a little too runny. To offer a little holiday cooking assistance, Souza showedAnd the cooking tips Souza shared will have you more than ready to whip up the perfect mashed potatoes dish. 'We love Yukon Golds or russet potatoes for this recipe. Yukon Golds are a little bit earthier and sweeter. Russets are the classic mashed potato. They have a drier texture. Both are great. I like Yukon Golds because they have a nice, butteriness to them.''With mashed potatoes, there is one cardinal rule, and that is that you take chunks of potato, put them in cold water, then you bring that up to a boil. That is taught in culinary schools, it's taught to kids when they learn how to make mashed potatoes. We are going to break that rule. This recipe starts with boiling water and thinly sliced potatoes. It takes about 12 minutes Now, 12 minutes to cook potatoes for mashed potatoes is lightning fast. If you had chunks in cold water and you were heating it up, you're looking at, you know, an average of 40 minutes probably to get there. So that's the real beauty of this technique.''We use three different tools for making mashed potatoe
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