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Mashed potatoes
- Serves
6
- Difficulty
Easy
Published 1999
You need good floury potatoes for mash, such as Golden Wonder or King Edwards. This may seem a lot of potatoes, but to an Irishman you can’t have too many spuds.
Ingredients
1 kg 150 g 250 ml <
Method
Put the potatoes, in their skins, in a big pan of cold salted water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender but not mushy. Drain, then return to the pan, off the heat. Cover the pan with a folded tea towel - or an old newspaper, which is what my mother always used - and leave for 5-10 minutes so the potatoes can steam off the exces
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