Double Potato Mash

Recipe courtesy Nigella Lawson

Show: Nigella FeastsEpisode: Comfort Foods

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (5)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(5)

Cook Time:
1 hr 30 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
10 to 12 servings

Times:

Prep: 30 min
Inactive Prep: 30 min
Cook: 1 hr 30 min
Total:: 2 hr 30 min

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Ingredients

4 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes
4 1/2 pounds white all-purpose potatoes
1/2 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon ground mace
Salt and freshly ground white pepper

Directions

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

Loosely wrap the sweet potatoes individually in aluminium foil and cook in the oven for 1 1/2 hours or until cooked through. Leave to cool in their foil parcels.

Meanwhile, peel and chop the white potatoes and cook them in salted water until tender; then drain and mash.

Open the sweet potato parcels carefully over the mashed white potatoes to catch all the juices that have leaked from them. Still holding each sweet potato over the other potatoes, peel the skin away with your fingers and scoop out the flesh into the mash.

Add the oil and mace and beat the potatoes together very well with a wooden spoon adding salt and pepper, to taste. Serve immediately.

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recipe Double Potato Mash
Anonymous 11-26-2007
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better way to eat mashed potatoes
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I will make this again.
recipe Double Potato Mash
Jennifer South Perth, NY 11-12-2007
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The best mash ever!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

My boyfriend and I find normal potato mash (even with butter, cream, cheese or anything) disgustingly bland. This recipe is... the answer! The combination is so beautiful, and if you're too lazy to roast the sweet potato's I've tried boiling them in with the normal potato's and that worked too! Thankyou Nigella!Read more
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d Minneapolis, MN 07-01-2007
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DELICIOUS
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I have always loved sweet potatoes, so I knew this would be good. Combining white and sweet potatoes is such a simple idea,... yet I've never seen it done before. It's terrific! Thanks again Nigella !Read more
recipe Double Potato Mash
Anonymous 01-23-2007
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why mess with a good thing
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

my daughter said it tasted like rotten oranges. I didnt think it was that bad, but why mess with mashed potatoes?
recipe Double Potato Mash
Jon Milwaukee, WI 01-16-2007
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Great with the Beef Casserole
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

I usually just cube and roast a combination of white and sweet potatoes, so I was excited to try a mashed version. The... finished version is quite delicious. The lack of cream and butter (replaced by the olive oil)isn't missed, as the consistency is still velvety. The addition of white potatoes really does cut down on the sweetness of the sweet potatoes and the ground mace adds a lemony nutmeg taste. I loved this with the Beef Casserole and am curious to try this with roast chicken, as well.Read more