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Mashed Potatoes with Sour Cream
These easy mashed potatoes with sour cream are the perfect, low-maintenance, budget-friendly side for any time of year. Made with thin-skinned gold potatoes, butter, milk, sour cream, and fresh chives, these mashed potatoes are a super simple and comforting dish. There’s nothing complicated about these mashed potatoes. No peeling or ricing the potatoes, no tricky instructions, and no requiring a gravy for flavor (unless you want to make gravy). Just simple ingredients and steps.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Step 1
Add cubed potatoes to a pot filled with cold water seasoned with 1 tbsp of sea salt.
- Step 2
Cook on high heat for about 15 to 20 minutes, or until the water begins to boil.
- Step 3
Boil the potatoes for 15 minutes until they’re fork-tender (tender enough to be easily pierced or cut with a fork), then remove from the heat.
- Step 4
Drain the potatoes and place them back in the pot.
- Step 5
Mash the potatoes with a potato masher.
- Step 6
Mix in the butter, sour cream, milk, salt, pepper, and chives, if using. You can also leave the chives out if you're looking for a mashed potato dish that would pair better with gravy.
- Step 7
For extra creamy mashed potatoes, you can use an electric hand mixer to mix them up. Just make sure not to mix them too much or they’ll become gummy.
Notes
- Step 8
If you’re making these potatoes to pair with gravy, we recommend leaving the chives out. You may also want to go low on the salt level since gravy is usually salty.
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