Creamiest Mashed Potatoes

This recipe will give you the best mashed potatoes ever. they are smooth and creamy and very flavorful for a dish using only 4 ingredients.

The first step to making the best mashed potatoes, is to give them a good cleaning. We will be boiling the potatoes whole with the skin on. For this recepie, I will use fingerling potatos as they are in season and reletivly quick to cook due to their shape.

Next, bring a pot of water up to a boil, and put the cleaned potatoes into the water. Reduce to a simmer and cook for about 25-30 minutes. If you are using round or large potatoes increase the time to about 40 minutes. Then, drain the potatoes.

After draining the potatoes ,quickly peel them. This must be done when the potatoes are hot or they will become very starchy and sticky. I find the best way to peel them is to cut into the potatotes and peel them from the cut.

Next, use a stick blender, a blender, or a fine food mill to puree the potatoes. Pureeing the potatoes give it a really smooth texture. After blending push the potatoes through a strainer.

Preparing some butter roughly equal to a third of the weight of the potatoes, and separate them into 3 portions. heat the potato mash in the saucepan and add a portion of butter. Mix the butter in with the potatoes as the butter melts, and repeat with the remaining 2 portions of butter. Once this is done, optionally add around 2 tbsp of milk. Finally, season with salt to taste. Now you are left the with best mashed potatoes on earth.