How to cook mashed potatoes?

Potatoes are a frequent guest on our tables. This vegetable has high taste qualities in any way of cooking: during cooking, frying and stewing. However, if the potato is stored long enough, it loses some of its taste qualities. This situation can be corrected by learning how to make a delicious mashed potatoes.

Cooking mashed potatoes: preparation

1. Take 1 kg. potatoes, clean and rinse.
2. Peel the vegetables in a saucepan, and pour cold water so that it covers them.
3. Do not forget to salt, enough 1 teaspoon.
4. Put the pan on a strong fire, covering it.cover. Wait for the water to boil, and continue to cook on low heat for about 20 minutes. The potatoes can be determined by piercing it with a fork. When the fork is easy to enter into the potatoes, the cooking can be terminated.
5. After that, the water from the pan should be drained and a minute to dry the potatoes in a saucepan over very low heat. An oven can also be used for this purpose.

What to do next, how to cook mashed potatoes? Yes, it's very simple!

• We take a wooden or metal pestle andcrush the potatoes. Some recipes advise to wipe the potatoes through a sieve. You can follow this advice, if there is time and patience. While we are engaged in this, it is possible to heat in a suitable dish on a stove or in a microwave oven about 200 ml. milk. By the way, if the potato was not salted, you can add the missing salt to the heated milk, it is not recommended to salt the potatoes, it will turn out unevenly.
• The main secret of how to cook puree from potatoes is to thoroughly crush it, and then even more carefully mix all the other ingredients.
• Therefore, when potatoes are mashed, we pound out into itone or two raw eggs and continue to knead. After receiving a homogeneous mass, gently pour the preheated milk, continuing to knead the potato mass. The general consistency should be homogeneous and soft, without lumps.

In some recipes advise to add inThe crushed potatoes are not eggs, but butter. The result will be almost the same. However, the eggs give the potato, especially the old one, additional taste and pleasant color. Try it - you will not regret it! Mashed potatoes, in which oil is added, after cooling to turn into a hard lump, and when reheating it can be bitter.

Knowing how to cook potato mashed potatoes will make it possible not to leave hungry guests suddenly unexpected, because this is a quick and simple recipe for a wonderful, versatile dish.