The Best Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes!
I’ve made these mashed red potatoes probably 6 times in the last 2 months (no joke) so it’s probably a recipe that needs to be shared, right? Oh my, oh my are these garlic mashed red potatoes good! Good luck stopping at one serving. These will be a huge hit for any garlic lovers, and will definitely make it into the side dish rotation. My mom is the kind of cook who made roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy every single Sunday as I was growing up, and believe it or not—she likes these creamy garlic mashed potatoes better than the potatoes she’s been making for 40+ years! These mashed red potatoes are really easy to make. The most time-consuming part is roasting the garlic, but if you start the potatoes about halfway through the garlic roasting, it goes pretty smoothly. You can even roast garlic a day in advance then just rewarm it before adding to the potatoes (it will add a nice smell to your fridge). And if you are head over heels in love with garlic, feel free to roast an extra head of garlic so you can top your serving with a few extra cloves.
Garlic Mashed Potatoes Ingredients
To make these roasted garlic mashed potatoes, you’ll need the following:
Garlic Olive oil Red potatoes Salt and pepper Milk Heavy cream Butter
How to Make Garlic Mashed Red Potatoes
Roast garlic, remove cloves and mash. Boil potatoes until very tender, drain and mash. Stir warmed milk, cream and butter and roasted garlic into potatoes. Season with salt and pepper, garnish with parsley and serve warm.
How to Reheat Mashed Potatoes
I recommend reheating individual servings of garlic-mashed red potatoes in a saucepan over low heat. You may need to add a splash of milk or cream to loosen them up a bit.
Can I Prep Garlic Mashed Potatoes in Advance?
Absolutely! If you’ll be serving these creamy garlic mashed potatoes to a crowd (roasted garlic mashed potatoes are PERFECT for Thanksgiving) and want to prep them ahead of time, I recommend transferring them to a baking dish and covering them with foil before chilling them. This can really cut down on the Thanksgiving Feast preparations if you do it a day in advance. Reheat the roasted garlic mashed potatoes in a 350 degree F oven in a baking dish covered with foil until heated through.
Can You Freeze Mashed Potatoes?
Yes, mashed red potatoes freeze well. You can reheat them from frozen or thaw them first, and garlic mashed potatoes can be reheated in the oven or on the stovetop. For detailed instructions on how to freeze and reheat mashed potatoes, see THIS POST.
Tips for the Best Garlic Mashed Potatoes
These are intended to be slightly lumpy which is why no beater or potato ricer is used and they are simply mashed by hand and stirred with a spoon. With that said just be sure you cook the potatoes through until they are soft. A fork should glide right through them when they are done and some will even fall apart. Since they are lumpy you don’t want stiff lumps. No thanks. Lumpy, textural potatoes are a good thing here as long as those little lumps are soft. I don’t recommend serving these with chives. I know a lot of potato recipes can benefit from some chives but here it will just compete with that incredible roasted garlic flavor so leave them off. And lastly, this isn’t intended to be a healthy recipe, we all need to splurge a little sometimes so don’t hesitate to add some extra butter over the top. MMMMM buttery, garlicky, extra delicious mashed potatoes. My kind of comfort food!
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