Top chef reveals the best way to cook mashed potatoes
A top chef has revealed the easy way to make mashed potatoes taste better.
Tyler Florence, host on The Food Network, has revealed that the traditional way of cooking mashed potatoes in water, then adding milk or cream and butter when you mash them, isn’t the best way to bring out the flavour.
Tyler told Pop Sugar, “Potatoes have a really delicate, beautiful minerality to their flavour profile, and when you cook potatoes in water and you pour that water down the drain, you’ve extracted all the flavour of the potato.”
“So what I do with mashed potatoes — because you finish them with cream and butter anyway, right? — is I’ll take that same cream and butter and add that to the potatoes and cook the potatoes in cream and butter.”
Tyler also adds garlic and herbs and when it has cooked and cooled he runs it through a colander until the cream collects in the bottom.
“Then I’ll put the potatoes back into the pot and take the potato-infused garlic cream and fold that back into the potatoes, and it’s the most incredible flavour profile. It’s the best mashed potato you’ll ever taste in your entire life,” he said.
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