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Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
5 from 30 votes

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes feature red potatoes cooked with their skins on, combined with roasted garlic cloves, butter, cream, and milk for a creamy, slightly textured mash. Roasting the garlic before mixing enhances its sweetness and mellows sharpness, enriching the potato's flavor. The potatoes retain some skin for a rustic texture, and parsley garnish adds freshness and color.

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
50 mins
Total Time
1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 6
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 2 garlic medium heads
  • 2 tsp olive oil
  • 2 1/2 lbs red potato diced into quarters (or sixths if larger, unpeeled
  • salt freshly ground
  • black pepper freshly ground
  • 1/2 cup milk (anything but skim)
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup butter diced into 1 Tbsp pieces, plus more for serving
  • parsley for garnish (optional, chopped, fresh

Instructions

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  1. Preheat oven, prep garlic: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Cut garlic heads about 1/2-inch from the top to expose cloves. 
  2. Roast garlic: Transfer garlic heads to a sheet of foil, drizzle 1 tsp oil over each head, wrap foil tightly around garlic so it's fully covered. Roast in preheated oven until lightly golden and cloves are soft, about 40 - 45 minutes.
  3. Mash garlic: Remove from oven and let cool (cook potatoes while they cool) then press and pinch cloves out of peels into a small bowl. Mash cloves with a fork and set aside.
  4. Cook the potatoes: Place potatoes in a large enameled cast iron pot and add enough cold water to cover potatoes, sprinkle in 1 Tbsp salt. Bring water to a boil over medium-high heat, then cover with lid, reduce heat to medium-low and allow to boil until potatoes are very tender when pierced with a fork, about 20 minutes. 
  5. Heat milk, cream and butter: Near the end of potatoes cooking, measure out milk in a liquid measuring cup, add cream and butter. Heat in microwave until hot, about 45 - 60 seconds. 
  6. Drain and mash potatoes: Drain potatoes then return to pot and mash with a potato masher (they should have some lumps in them). 
  7. Stir in milk mixture and garlic: Add hot milk mixture and mashed roasted garlic, and stir with a spoon while seasoning with salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately with more butter and garnish with parsley if desired.

Notes

  • For extra garlic flavor, roast an additional head of garlic to use as a topping.