Sarasota's Five Minute Microwaved Mashed Potatoes

Submitted by SarasotaCook

"I have been doing this for years and I love it. Five minutes in the micro, then add your favorite toppings or ingredients and you have mashed spuds. I like to add some butter, maybe a little chicken broth, you can do sour cream, chives, herbs, cheese, bacon, cream or milk. Pretty much anything you want. I am listing my basic recipe, but use your imagination. You can add anything you want to these. Nothing like mashed potatoes in 5-8 minutes without the boiling water, peeling or the time involved."

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 8 red potatoes, cut into bite size pieces (you can use yukon gold too which work great, and if you want peel the potatoes, I just like skins on)
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1⁄2 cup liquid (you can use cream, milk, broth, or a mix of both)
• 1 tablespoon butter
• salt
• ground black pepper

• Options

• you can throw some sour cream in. health conscious use all broth. you can also add bacon, grated onion or cheese, etc

directions

1. Potatoes -- prepare your spuds. Just wash good and cut in bite size pieces. Place in a microwavable bowl, one that you will be serving in and add the water and cover with plastic wrap.
2. Cook -- Cook on high for 3-5 minutes, remove plastic wrap and stir. Put the saran wrap back on and cook another 2-3 minutes until the spuds are soft.
3. Dress -- Now, the spuds are done. What do you with them is up to you. Butter to me is a must to me and you can go lighter if you want. Add some liquid the 1/2 cup -- either broth, cream, milk, and of course salt and pepper. Then use a fork or potato masher to smash them up.
4. Now they are done -- NOW WHAT? -- Sour Cream? Bacon? Cheese? Scallions? Herbs? Onion? Anything you want.
5. Finish -- After adding all your flavors, you can return return to the microwave covered in the plastic wrap for just 1 minute until heated and serve. But many times the potatoes are hot enough and any extras will heat up with any additional cooking time.
6. 1 pot clean up, easy and quick.

Reviews

[JLBear71]

Wonderful! Easy! Love this! Bacon & Asiago Mashed potatos were so easy. Why did I never think of this before?!?

 

[Misty F.]

Turned out better than my usual method of microwave-baking potatoes, then peeling and mashing. I was too lazy to get out the cutting board so I just haphazardly chopped the potatoes in the bowl. I scaled down the recipe to make a meal for one. Ezpz

 

[bmcnichol]

This is a good basic recipe. I used milk and a bit more butter. We ate the potatoes with gravy so I didn't add any other ingredients. Quick easy way to make mashed potatoes.

 

[Boomette]

I made half the recipe for the 3 of us. This is so easy in the microwave. I used half and half cream. Thanks SarasotaCook :) Made for I Recommend tag game

 

[Anne1673]

You should really change the title to 10 minute mashed potatoes since after reading your directions it would take that long. Also, If you are making a bit more potatoes it would take the "normal" everyday cook a lot longer in the micro....so the instructions really don't apply do they...hum. <br/>While your recipe will give "new" cooks a idea of how to, I would think it would be helpful to be realistic about times.