Ingredients for Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Series Summary

Taters, potatoes, spuds, pommes de terre…whatever you call these amazing little tuber vegetables from the deadly nightshade family, don’t call them the native crop of the Irish, because you’d be wrong. Potatoes actually come from South America, in the area around what is now the country of Peru.

Potatoes are one of the most widely consumed vegetables on the planet. The starch (carbohydrates) and fiber they contain make them a nutritious food, well-suited to the human diet. Couple that with the fact that potatoes are easily adaptable to climate changes that would kill off other crops, and you have a staple food that has been incorporated into hundreds, or even thousands, of recipes, and cooked in as many ways as man can devise.

In these free cooking classes on video, learn how to make a recipe for homemade mashed potatoes. Our expert will walk you through this creamy, buttery side dish with step-by-step instructions. Learn how to wash, peel, cut, soak, and cook the potatoes, how to chop scallions, seasoning tips, how much milk to add, and how to garnish and serve the dish. Mashed potatoes go great with just about any main course, so whip up a batch for your next dinner meal. Your taste buds will go wild for these spuds.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Rich Buccola of New York City and behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to make some mashed potatoes. Alright so we are here today I'm going to show you how to make mashed potatoes. A really great side dish to have they are my personal favorite. I love mashed potatoes a lot of butter, a lot of milk, really creamy mashed potatoes. Well today I'm going to show you my auntie Darcey's old recipe for mashed potatoes. (If she was here she would kick me in the butt right now.) But what here trick was she would say the specialty just adding in a scallion to it. Little chopped scallions real fine. So today we are going to need about 2 1/2 pounds of potatoes so in a 5 pound bag you are looking at 6-8 potatoes. You are going to need butter. Butter makes them nice and creamy. You are going to need milk that adds to it, it makes it even more creamier. Scallions, the little hints of scallions that is going to really spice this up and give it a little jazz and just salt and pepper for taste. It is that simple. When I come back I will show you the hardware that we need for this and we would start making some great mashed potatoes. "