"Ingredients to make the best mashed potatoes: cream, sour cream and butter. Make them even better? Add roasted garlic and chives! Make these mashed potatoes for the holidays and your guests might forget there’s other things on the table!"
Roasted Garlic & Chive Mashed Potatoes
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Prep time 20mins
Cook time 20mins
Serves or Makes: 4
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ingredients
- 3 pounds yellow or yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cut into large chunks
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 10 large unpeeled garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
- Handful of chives, snipped
- Salt & pepper
Method
Step 1
To boil potatoes: Boil peeled potato chunks in a large pot for 20-25 minutes until soft when poked with a fork.
Step 2
For easy roasted garlic: While potatoes are boiling, place unpeeled garlic cloves in a skillet over medium-high heat. Let them toast in the skillet for 7 minutes. Flip them so the other sides toast for an additional 7 minutes. The garlic skins should be charred, and the insides should be relatively soft. Let cloves cool, and then peel them! Add a dash of olive oil and mashed them with a fork.
Step 3
To assemble: Drain potatoes when soft and mash them with a potato masher to desired consistency (I like them quite smooth!). Add butter, sour cream, and heavy cream. Mix until combined. Add mashed garlic cloves, snipped chives, and a generous amount of salt and pepper. Mix again until combined.
Step 4
Mashed potatoes are best served right away, but you can keep them in the pot (covered) on low heat until the rest of your dinner is ready! Stir occasionally.