Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes (5 Ingredients)
This 5-Ingredient Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes recipe is the easiest mashed potatoes ever. Fluffy, creamy, flavorful mashed potatoes can be on your table in no time. Stovetop option included.
Hello, instant pot mashed potatoes
Some of us have loved mashed potatoes from the slow cooker. Others of us have blissfully enjoyed this make-ahead baked mashed potatoes.
I belong to both those camps and I don’t even need gravy to devour really great mashed potatoes (though amazing homemade gravy certainly doesn’t hurt.)
Many of us would happily serve up homemade mashed potatoes a lot more often if it were as easy as 8 minutes and 5 ingredients. No boxed or pouched or otherwise packaged stuff. Please give a warm welcome to today’s special dinner guest, the lovely Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes. I see regular appearances happening from here on out.
The Big Five Ingredients
The goal is to create a mashed potatoes recipe that’s not only busy-weeknight-friendly and fast, but also to deliver on the all-important deliciousness factor.
This Instant Pot mashed potatoes recipe boasts a pure buttery flavor with creamy texture, and is even (a little) healthier without any sour cream or cream cheese or what-not cheese.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Russet potatoes or Yukon Gold potatoes: Russet potatoes are high in starch and low in moisture, resulting in a fluffier and drier texture. Yukon Golds are medium in starch level and low moister, which yields a creamier texture. The choice is yours, and if you don’t want to choose, use a combination of both.
- Regular strength chicken broth or stock: many recipes use water, but we love the flavor that a good broth provides. It also adds moisture/liquid to the mashed potatoes without adding more fat.
- Milk: feel free to use either whole milk or lowfat milk, but try to avoid fat-free milk, as you do need some fat for creaminess. Whole milk is the favorite here.
- Real butter. Of course butter and plenty of it. Though it might sound like a lot of butter, it’s actually less than most mashed potato recipes. Start with the amount listed, and add more melted drizzles at the end if you’d like (who doesn’t like?)
Flavor options for your instant pot mashed potatoes
Your 5-ingredient Instant Pot mashed potatoes recipe is awesome as-is. Just a simple drizzle of butter on top or homemade gravy is drool-worthy and tastes incredible.
However. If you would like to jazz things up once in awhile, here are flavor options to help you make that happen:
- Roasted garlic. This is the ultimate add-on for mashed potatoes, if you’re going to add on. It’s crazy easy to roast whole heads of garlic ahead of time. If you’re a garlic fiend like myself, feel free to go wild and roast an extra head of garlic to make garlic-butter to spread on everything.
- Freshly chopped herbs: play with your favorite herbs, including chives, parsley, or thyme. Just sprinkle a bit of it in at the end – remember that less is more when it comes to mashed potatoes.
- If you really want to go all out with creaminess, you can add in a bit of sour cream or almost-melted cream cheese.
- Sprinkle in a bit of freshly grated parmesan cheese or other cheese, for all the cheese lovers.
Stovetop Cooking Option:
You can opt to make this recipe using stovetop alternative as well. Simply boil peeled/cubed potatoes in a large pot of salted water for 15 minutes, or just until potatoes are fork-tender. Drain and proceed with recipe as written.
Serve instant pot mashed potatoes with:
- Tender Roast Turkey, which is super delicious for any and all holidays.
- Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Gravy, so you can have the roast cooking while you’re at work all day and just snap together the Instant Pot mashed potatoes afterwards.
- Beef Tenderloin with Garlic Wine Sauce, which is my favorite dish to serve when friends come over for dinner
You’ll also love this Roasted Greek Chicken with Garlic Potatoes:
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- ½ cup chicken stock, regular strength
- 3 lbs russet or yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
- ½ cup milk, whole preferred
- ½ cup butter, sliced and softened, plus more for drizzling
- Kosher salt
- Optional seasonings: freshly ground black pepper, garlic powder or roasted garlic, chopped herbs of your choice
Instructions
- Pour broth into the inner pot of your Instant Pot. Place potatoes onto steamer rack. Close lid and lock in place. Turn steam release handle/valve to correct position, if needed. Cook on high pressure for 8 minutes.
- While potatoes are cooking, combine milk and softened butter slices into a saucepan over low heat. Stir until butter is completely melted and milk is warmed through. Turn heat off and keep warm.
- Once pressure cooker is done, do a Quick Release. Gently remove lid and remove steamer rack, sliding potatoes into the pot with broth. Use a potato masher to mash potatoes.
- Add warm milk/butter mixture and a generous sprinkle of kosher salt – any optional seasonings can be added now as well. Keeping Instant Pot on "warm," continue to hand-mash potatoes to your desired texture. Taste and add more salt, if needed. Serve with drizzle of melted butter or gravy, if desired.
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