OMG mashed spuds!!

[Jaz]

Hi all, Ive had my thermy a couple of weeks and have been having a ball with it!! Tonight I did the mashed spuds!! OMG!! How good are they!!!!  No usually  a huge fan of mash but these were to die for!! nom nom nom!! xo

[Halex]

Yes they are great and so easy.

Hiw dd yiu cook them, there has been discussions here on the perfect mash.

Hally

[judydawn]

We couldn't live without mashed potatoes in this house.  It was the 3rd thing I made once I had my machine.

[achookwoman]

Love mashed spuds.  Usually make whole recipe even though we are only 2.  Make fish cakes or cottage pie with left overs.  Even put some into bread mixture.  Jaz,  glad you like them also.

[tarosuma]

I love potatoes mashed by hand but I just can't get to the point of liking them done in the TM.
They taste too goopy and heavy to me, does anybody else out there not like them or is it just me?  Am I using the wrong type of potato or something?  Or doing something wrong?   

[Cuilidh]

Every time I read a good mashed potato review I read an equally disappointing mashed potato review so I've been put off trying them - I still stick to my good old hand masher - at least I know I will end up with something that I like!

[LeeJ]

I was finding mine gluggy, and not that nice either, until I tried them this way! Lovely and soft and fluffy Just be careful to add just a tabespoon of butter and a tablespoon of milk, cooked this was, you need hardly any extra in it!


So this method is,
dice spuds (2cm dice), put in steamer basket in bowl, add 500gms of boiling water.
Set 20 mins, varoma, speed 3. (add other veg in varoma too!)
When finished, tip water out, put butterfly in bowl, add spuds, and whatever you add to spuds (everyone is different, us, its a bit of milk, cream and butter, with some salt), whip on speed 4, 20-60 seconds, until it reaches desired consistency.

I do a dash of milk, cream, and a tablespoon or so of butter. Just need to adjust to your own taste.

Lovely fluffy (not gluggy!) mashed potatoes.

[Carine]

I had my snob moment thinking how slack it was to make mashed potatoes using the TMX..until I tried it
LeeJ, my method is similar.  I do use a litre of water so that I can steam other veggies in the varoma while the spuds are cooking.

[judydawn]

Me too but I don't whip it as long - usually only around 10 seconds and it is more like preTMX mashed potato then.  You can always add a dash more milk if you think it is too thick but too much will make it too gloopy.

[Decadent Dot]

I too have always been a hand masher. I suppose that I am wary of mashed potatoes that have a look and feel of powdered potato results. Just too smooth. I really must give the Thermomix a go on this and stop being a "Wuss"

[Katya]

DD - the joy about TMX mashed spuds is that you can make them as smooth (or not) as you like.  I tend to only run it for a second or so at a time, scrape down the sides and then run it for another second until it gets to the desired consistency which tends to vary according to what I'm serving the mash with.  

Do give it a go, you can always turn the results into fishcakes or something if you don't like them   

[berpsie]

I make it with less liquid and usually half sweet potato and we love it!   Yes it is different from your classic mashed potatoes (which I have always loved) but I am loving it the Thermomix way and so does the family!  And when it is on Shepherds Pie it is divine!

[LeeJ]

I like a nice lump in my mashed potato  , much to my husbands' disgust. He is so smitten with thermomix mashed potatoes, he actually 'agreed' to the thermomix purely on smooth mashed spuds 

[judydawn]

Sounds like a win all round then LeeJ