Easy flavourful Mashed Potatoes

2 lbs potatoes
1/4 cup butter
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp salt depending on preference
ground black pepper to taste
chopped parsley optional
Brown the butter in a pan, until there is an aroma of a nutty flavour.  Make sure not to burn the butter.  
Boil the potatoes until it is cooked, drain and mash the potatoes.  Mix the potatoes with the browned butter, salt, pepper and buttermilk.  Add some chopped parsley and mix, this is optional.  Serve the mashed potatoes warm.   
This recipe is adapted from the smitten kitchen cookbook.
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24 comments:

  1. Oooo, delicious mashed potatoes!

    I love those beautiful butter you have used. I, on the other hand have made it with all sorts of butter substitutes(not margarine) and they never tasted as good as the ones with butter.

    Defintely worth trying!

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  2. Fast to cook and good to eat mashed potatoes.
    Deepa

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  3. Nothing can beat good old mashed potatoes - a perfect side dish to everything!

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  4. Oh my! I was thinking of making this today after I watched how Buddy Vastro did his verstion on the food network this morning. He used cream cheese. You mash potato looks as good as his..yummy.

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  5. nice side for bbq items.
    looks yummy

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  6. Akeela, lovely! What kind of potatoes did you use here?

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    1. Shri I used Yukon gold potatoes however you can use any type of potato

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  7. I always love smashed potatoes... This looks lovely dear... Bookmarking it

    Event: Dish name starts with R till April 15th

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  8. So tasty! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. What's the green in the potatoes? You don't list it on the ingredients. Is it parsley?

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    1. oops thank you for pointing it out I forgot to add it on the list, it is parsley :)

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  10. Mmm, yummy! These mashed potatoes look delicious. I use red russets most of the time. What type of potatoes do you use

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  11. I've never added buttermilk! I still got some buttermilk left from baking this past weekend. I'll give this a try tomorrow as a side dish. :)

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  12. Ottimo!!! :-)
    Un abbraccio

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  13. I have never used buttermilk in mashed potatoes, may have to try it next time I have it in the house.

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  14. Buttermilk would add a bright note to mashed potatoes.

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  15. I often use creme fraiche (we cannot get buttermilk here!) which is very yummy, but I like the idea of adding parsley, will try that next time. Have a good week Diane

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