Side Dishes

Best Mashed Potatoes

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 45 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Total Time 1 hr 15 mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 6)

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ kg potato (s), waxy
  • 0.5 ½ bulb garlic
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 1 tablespoon, leveled salt
  • 100 g butter
  • milk, or cream
  • 0.5 ½ nutmeg, grated
  • Parmesan, or other cheese, grated
  • Herbs
Best Mashed Potatoes
Best Mashed Potatoes

Instructions

  1. Peel the potatoes and cut into 2-3 cm cubes, place in a saucepan and cover with water. Peel the garlic and cut into very large cubes or leave whole, add to the potatoes. Add the salt and bay leaves and cook for about 30 minutes, until the potatoes are soft. Drain the water and remove the bay leaves.
  2. Add the butter and some milk to the potatoes and garlic and mash everything with the potato masher. Add milk until the desired consistency is achieved.
  3. Rub the nutmeg into the pulp and stir everything again, season with salt if necessary.
  4. Other ingredients can now be added as desired, such as cheese or fresh herbs.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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