Trying to replicate your favourite restaurant-style garlic mashed potatoes? Then try this easy 5 ingredient red skin garlic mashed potatoes recipe! They're the ultimate dinner side dish that pairs great with any meal!
Everyone loves these mashed potatoes because they're packed with a delicious garlicky flavour. They're super creamy and remind me of the garlic mashed potatoes I always get at The Keg Steakhouse restaurant (if you know, you know).
All you need is 5 simple ingredients to make these delicious mashed potatoes! If you're new here, Cup of Flour is a recipe website which aims to make cooking approachable for everyone and that means only making recipes with basic ingredients! Learn more about Cup of Flour on the About page!
Ingredients
- RED SKIN POTATOES
- BUTTER
- MILK
- GARLIC
- SALT & PEPPER
Instructions
- Boil: Bring a large pot of water to a boil on high heat. While the water is heating up, wash and roughly chop your potatoes into 1-inch cubes. Carefully place the chopped potatoes into boiling water. Let boil for 10 - 15 minutes or until a fork can easily poke through.
- Mix: Strain the potatoes, and place them back into the same pot or a separate bowl. Add the butter, milk or cream, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Shred the garlic using a cheese grater over the pot, or mince the garlic finely and add to the pot. Using an electric mixer or hand-held masher, mix/mash for about 1-2 minutes or until most potato chunks are gone.
- Serve: Add more milk and salt for desired flavour and consistency. Serve and enjoy.
FAQs
Place in an air-tight container in your refrigerator for up to one week.
Add about ½ to 1 tablespoon of butter to your leftover mashed potatoes and about 1 to 2 teaspoons of milk or cream. Mix with a spoon, place in your microwave until warm, mix again, and serve.
The potatoes are likely experiencing one of two issues. 1. over mixing the potatoes or 2. over cooking your potatoes.
Serving Suggestions
These creamy garlic mashed potatoes are a great side dish for chicken or steak dinners paired with some roasted maple-glazed carrots, brussels sprouts with bacon, or prosciutto-wrapped asparagus! They also taste great next to some Turkey and green bean casserole on Thanksgiving!
Related Recipes
If you love potato side dishes with dinner then try these easy loaded scalloped potatoes, baby potatoes with onion soup mix, roasted yukon gold baby potatoes, scalloped potatoes, dill pickle potato salad, and red skin potato salad!
Some other potato recipes you'll enjoy are this Italian sausage and potato soup and creamy potato and mushroom soup!
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Red Skin Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
These red skin garlic mashed potatoes taste just like that classic restaurant-style mashed potatoes that you order at a restaurant!
Ingredients
- Red Skin Potatoes, roughly chopped into 1-inch cubes (8)
- Butter, salted or unsalted (½ Cup)
- Milk or Cream (⅓ Cup)
- Garlic Cloves (2 shredded or minced)
Instructions
- Boil: Bring a large pot of water to a boil on high heat. While the water is heating up, wash and roughly chop your potatoes into 1-inch cubes. Carefully place the chopped potatoes into boiling water. Let boil for 10 - 15 minutes or until a fork can easily poke through.
- Mix: Strain the potatoes, and place them back into the same pot or a separate bowl. Add the butter, milk or cream, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Shred the garlic using a cheese grater over the pot, or mince the garlic finely and add to the pot. Using an electric mixer or hand-held masher, mix/mash for about 1-2 minutes or until most potato chunks are gone.
- Serve: Add more milk and salt for desired flavour and consistency. Serve and enjoy.
Notes
Grate the garlic. Grating the garlic instead of mincing it with a knife makes the flavour more elevated in this raw form.
If you don’t have fresh garlic, garlic powder works just as well! Use 2 - 3 teaspoons.
Add the butter first before the other ingredients, it will help the butter start to melt over the hot potatoes and make it easier to mix.
Use the potato-to-person ratio when picking your potatoes. Ever wondered how many potatoes you should grab for a mashed potato recipe? Think about how many whole potatoes you and your guests might eat. If you have 8 people to feed and think everyone would probably eat 1 potato amongst all the other food being served, grab 8 potatoes!
Add salt and pepper to taste. I like a lot of cracked black pepper in these mashed potatoes!
Nutrition facts are estimates only.
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 15
- Category: Dinner, Lunch, Side Dish
- Method: stove top
- Cuisine: American
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