Serve these creamy potatoes as a side dish to our Top Round Roast Beef. The beauty of mashed potatoes is that they could be made in so many different ways. I like mine light, fluffy and impossibly creamy! Adding loads of butter and milk usually accomplishes that. However, if you want to make them a bit less calorific, cream cheese should be your secret weapon. What is even better you can infuse your spuds with different flavours cream cheese comes in.
Cooking in Instant Pot
You are probably wondering why you need to use Instant Pot to cook your potatoes when boiling them in a pot is easy enough. All true but let me tell you what is also true. Pressure cookers like Instant Pot are known to be much speedier than stove top cooking. I use it weekly at home to produce meals, that normally take hours in the oven. One of my favourite dishes to make in the pressure cooker is French Coq au Vin. Same flavours as the classic in half the time and effort. It’s also great for easy soups like Chicken Tortilla Soup! Another reason to use Instant Pot is extra cooking space. If you are like me and have limited space available, cooking during the holiday season is a real issue. So many burners are engaged at once! Here is when Instant Pot comes to the rescue! You can plug it in anywhere. If your kitchen counters get too crowded, just move it to your dining room. Problem solved.
Serving Suggestions
These potatoes can be served as a side dish to hundreds of recipes! My personal favourites are Beef Bourguignon and Chicken Stroganoff. If you happen to have leftovers, let me suggest a wonderful dish you can make. My Salmon Cakes with Garlic Chive Yogurt Sauce uses a potato mash as a base instead of breadcrumbs, which creates divine texture!
More Mashed Potato Recipes to Try
Herb and Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes Traditional Colcannon Mashed Potato Casserole with Mushrooms and Caramelised Onions Champ (Irish Potato Mash)
