(Mashed potatoes - Traditional recipe)

Time: preparation: 20 minutes ........ cooking: 50-60 minutes 1 Kg (2 1/4 lb) potatoes 125 g (4 1/2 oz) unsalted butter Milk Salt easy recipe

  Spoon measures are American spoons, that is standard cook's measuring spoons used in USA.
  The best plan is to regard 2 American teaspoons or tablespoons as 1 English teaspoon or tablespoon (eating spoons)

Steam potatoes. Peel and purée them with a vegetable mill. Put mashed potatoes together with butter and salt in a saucepan. Cook over a gentle flame until butter is well melted. At this point begin adding cold milk gradually, stirring. It's impossible to say what is the right quantity of milk: it depends on many things. But mashed potatoes must be soft and dry!

Note
In this page we have the traditional recipe of mashed potatoes. Many people like this dish but a great number can't eat for the quantity of fat. We've realized a light version for those people that have this problem.

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