I love using my crockpot. It's so easy, also cuts down on all the dishes at dinner time. These start as cubed potatoes and end up as savory, creamy mashed potatoes without ever leaving your crock!
Total Time: About 15 minutes prep
Yield: Serves about 8-10
Source: self
Ingredients:
* I used chicken bouillon as one of the seasonings and it gives these a nice rich flavor.
Steps:
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I made mashed potatoes in my crockpot for Thanksgiving. I didn't cube them, just peeled the potatoes and added a stick of butter, some roasted garlic and about a cup of vegetable broth. I would have used chicken broth but my oldest son is a vegetarian.
I started the potatoes first thing in the morning, before I got the turkey in the oven, and cooked them on high until the turkey was done and resting. I mashed them right in the crockpot, adding salt and some heavy whipping cream. They were perfect. I had enough left over to make a potato soup after everyone was tired of Thanksgiving food.
Jess, your recipe sounds fabulous! I had no idea you didn't even have to cube the potatoes, just peel. What a time saver, I will try that! What a clever idea to use the leftover mashed potatoes to make soup!
Already made the Crock Pot Candy and will do the two pot roasts (from Schwan's already has gravy) with carrots, green beans and celery in the 2 crocks too. The potatoes I use are from the Schwans frozen food truck. Called "mashed potato nuggets" or something like that. No cutting, peeling or waste. I microwave them in a ceramic serving bowl. Season as you like.
The recipe sounds great. Crock Pots are wonderful. I think I am going to try this for Christmas. One word of warning!
Whatever you do, after your mashed potatoes are ready, DO NOT put the lid on the crockpot to keep them warm. A few years ago I put my mashed 'taters in the crock-pot to have 'em nice and warm for my Thanksgiving feast...Ha! Ha! Ha!
With a flourish I removed the lid. I had a huge pot of potato soup. Fortunately, I kept the lid off, and by the time people came back for 2nds I had mashed potatoes again.
I love any crock pot cooking. I'm trying this recipe this week.
I'll have to get my wife to help me with the crock pot. This will be nice on the nights she's working and I'm alone with the kids.
Sounds good. However, those bouillon cubes are very high in processed sodium, which makes people's blood too thick, increasing their odds of getting high blood pressure or a stroke and stressing one's heart.
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