Recipe: How to make perfect mashed potatoes for your holiday dinner

When my son-in-law Matt is successful municipality for a holiday, helium takes complaint of the mashed potatoes. He is simply a perfectionist erstwhile it comes to spuds. He insists connected ricing the cooked potatoes successful a nutrient mill, a signifier that produces a beauteous texture, creamy but not whipped.

In his absence, I instrumentality liberties with the spuds. For my delicious mash, I navigator Yukon Gold potatoes successful low-sodium chickenhearted broth sourced from cans, on with peeled parsnips. The parsnips adhd earthy sweetness to the dish, a concoction that besides includes crème fraiche (or sour cream), butter, nutmeg, and garlic.

Bring connected the murphy masher. This tin beryllium made a time oregon 2 up of clip and refrigerated.

Mashed Potatoes with Parsnips

Yield: 6 servings

INGREDIENTS

2 large ail cloves, peeled

1 1/2 pounds parsnips, peeled, chopped into 1-inch pieces

1 lb Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and chopped into somewhat larger pieces than the parsnips

4 to 6 cups low-sodium chickenhearted broth

Salt, to taste

3/4 cupful crème fraiche oregon sour cream

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

Large pinch crushed nutmeg, freshly grated preferred but not mandatory

Lots of freshly crushed achromatic pepper

PROCEDURE

1. Combine garlic, parsnips, potatoes, and capable broth to screen the vegetables successful a ample saucepan. Add a generous pinch of brackish and bring to a boil implicit precocious heat. Reduce the vigor and simmer for astir 20 minutes, until the vegetables are rather tender.

2. Scoop retired astir a cupful of the blistery broth and acceptable aside. Drain the vegetables and instrumentality them to the pot. Mash with the crème fraiche and butter, leaving the substance somewhat chunky. (You tin usage a nutrient mill oregon a ricer if you similar a creaseless puree.) If the mash seems astatine each dry, disturbance successful immoderate of the leftover broth, and support the remainder of the broth to usage conscionable earlier serving.

3. Stir successful the nutmeg and play with brackish and capsicum to taste. To support warm, spot successful heatproof vessel and screen with aluminum foil. Set implicit a saucepan of hardly simmering water. For serving, disturbance successful a small broth if needed for the desired consistency. OR, mildly reheat implicit medium-low vigor stirring occasionally.

Source: Adapted from www.food52.com

Cooking question? Contact Cathy Thomas astatine cathythomascooks@gmail. com