Pressure cooker Mashed Potatoes. Creamy Pressure Cooker / Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes. Fluffy, creamy butter garlic smashed potatoes with cheese No doubt, homemade mashed potatoes wins the crown as one of my favorite comfort food. I can seriously eat this everyday.
I'm so excited about this pressure cooker mashed potatoes recipe.
It might just be the next best thing - right after sliced bread.
Ok, I might be a bit dramatic, but this is a game changer for. making mashed potatoes every kind of way, these days, it's all about the electric pressure cooker.
You can have Pressure cooker Mashed Potatoes using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Pressure cooker Mashed Potatoes
- You need 2-3 lbs of potatoes (as many as you like).
- It's of Water to just cover potatoes.
- It's to taste of butter.
- Prepare of milk to taste and thickness.
- Prepare to taste of salt and pepper.
The potatoes come out perfectly every time, and it's What Kind of Potatoes To Use. Russets make for great mashed potatoes because they are starchy, but you can also use Yukon gold potatoes. Pressure cooker mashed potatoes in your Instant Pot, Crockpot Express or Ninja Foodi. It's one of our favorite side dish Instant Pot recipes. 😉.
Pressure cooker Mashed Potatoes step by step
- Peel, wash and cut potatoes.
- Add to inter pot, put water in the pot to where it just covers the potatoes, and some salt 1tsp (or so a pinch.)Cook for 10 min with a natural release.
- Drained off water. In a bowl make up the mashed potatoes. Don’t make them in the inter pot..
- I used a hand mixer added some butter and milk. Adding sour cream is good too, makes it creamy..
- I have edited this recipe to where you can make whatever you need for your size of family or just a single severing. For less potatoes 1 cup of water will work. I have been making my mashed potatoes like this ever since I got my first pressure cooker over a year ago..
- See picture for cook times I did 10 mins. If using more potatoes than picture add to cooking time... for 3-4 cut potatoes cut small 6 mins and up should work. You may have to play with cooking time each pressure cooker is different and you have to find what ones best for you... I had to make mine 3 different times before I found what works best..(it’s better to under cook it, an add time to it, than to over cook them).
Wash and scrub your potatoes well, even though you are taking the skin off. Potatoes in the pressure cooker, easy easy easy. peel as many potatoes as you want, cut them into quarters. Put about an inch of water in the pressure. For classic mashed potatoes, our go-to is the russet. They're low in moisture and super starchy so, once mashed, they absorb all of that dairy like a charm.