Cooking Potatoes & Preparing Ingredients for Homemade Mashed Potatoes

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All right, we are back to show you the second part of the procedure for home made mashed potatoes. I've got some Idaho Russet Potatoes cut into small cubes behind me and they are just about done. I've submerged them into boiling water in the pot and they are just about nice and soft and ready to go so I turn those down to the lowest flame setting so that we can just keep them warm in mean time. Now what we are going to do to season these guys as I said before, there are a million different recipes out there for however you want to do that. But what I want to do actually is I've got a non-stick Teflon sautee pan here and what I am going to take is some garlic and shallots actually that I've done on a mince and I've got some whole butter here. So I'm going to put in just a little bit of this whole butter first to start with and get this melted down. We are going to sautee these so that they start to have the residual sugars start to seep out of them and they start to get a nice good sweat on them. I actually want to get a little color on these. I want kind of a golden brown color. What I've got off to the side once I hit that point is a half-n-half mixture of heavy whipping cream and regular milk, so its about a 50/50 mix there. We are going to pour that on top of these and let that cream reduce down until it becomes this nice thick liquid which will be poured into the potatoes as we throw them into our Kitchen Aide and start to actually mash them in that sense, so that is the game plan. I've got a high flame going on this fellow and again, I am using whole butter. So I am going to start with the garlic first. We'll start that swinting, get a nice color out of it. Again, I've got some shallots as well. We are going to get these kind of nice and brown and carmely and this will take just a couple of minutes and we've shown you this sauteed procedure in previous videos. We will come back here in just a little bit when we hit the color we want on these guys and show you when to add the cream and milk mixture.

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