Garlic Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Series Summary

Creole cuisine is a style of cooking originating in Louisiana that combines French, Spanish, French Caribbean, African and American style cooking. Similar to the other Louisiana classic style, Cajun food, Creole cuisine is both rich and spicy. However, creole cooking focuses much more on natural ingredients and doesn't rely as heavily on the Acadiana influence of Cajun but rather sticks closer to classical European style dishes. With the rising popularity of Creole and Cajun food, many classic American dishes are starting to be influenced and altered with the Cajun flavor. Garlic mashed potatoes is one such food.

In this free video series, watch as master chef Karl James teaches how to make garlic mashed potatoes. Learn all about this garlic mashed potato recipe with videos explaining the ingredients for garlic mashed potatoes, how to cut the garlic, how to mash the potatoes, how to add the butter, how to add the milk, how to add the sour cream, and how to bake garlic mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes are a great protein enriched dish that goes well with pretty much any and all meat dinners. So watch this fantastic online recipe and start mashing those potatoes today!

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Karl James owner of Creolesoul catering located in Round Rock, Texas and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to continue on with this series we call making a meal and in this is part two of that series of the first side dish which we are going to make garlic mashed potatoes. Okay let's continue on with making a meal this is actually part two and this is our first side dish which you is going to be the garlic mashed potatoes. The ingredients that we are going to need for this is of course potatoes, as well as garlic, we are also going to use sour cream, a little bit of milk, some butter, some sea salt and black pepper as our seasonings. We are going to peel the potatoes, we are going to boil them and get them soft, we are going to mashed those in with our garlic, add a little sour cream and milk and butter to get a smooth blend and seasoning it with some salt and pepper. Then we are going to take that, put it in a baking dish, then going to stick that in the oven for a little bit to let it all come together. So this is the ingredients that we need for our garlic mashed potatoes let's get started. "