It's coming home time to family and friends and home-cooked meals. Even meat and potatoes like your grandmother used to make can be easy--so easy that you can do it even on a weeknight.
Here's how you do it.
You put the potatoes i the crockpot so that all you have to do is mash them. The gravy?--just add water. The meat?--it's tough to cook a roast when you're at work. Have your meal on Sunday. Or cook it on Sunday and stick it in the fridge for later.
You've got to admit, this is a lot easier to--less work. And that leftover beef and gravy?--that's for hot beef sandwiches later in the week, maybe on Fully Loaded Baked Potato Bread. Life is good.
Crockpot Mashed Potatoes
If you use seven pounds of potatoes, you'll max out a large crockpot. The recipe below is scaled back to five pounds of potatoes. We mashed them right in the crockpot. If we had mashed them with the paddle in the stand-type mixer, they would have been fluffier, but that would have been an extra step and a dirty bowl.
Crockpot Mashed Potato Recipe
Ingredients:
- 5 lbs. Russet potatoes, peeled and cut into small chunks
- 1 stick of butter, cut into cubes
- 2 cups chicken broth
- pepper to taste
- Minced garlic (optional)
Directions:
- Place the potatoes, chicken broth, butter, and minced garlic (if desired) in the crockpot. Cook on high for 4 to 5 hours.
- Mash the potatoes in the crockpot.
- Add seasoning and other preferred additions such as sour cream, cream cheese, ranch seasoning, bacon bits, or shredded cheese.
That’s it! Enjoy!
