Recipe courtesy of Kathleen Daelemans

Chili Mashed Potatoes

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 servings
  • Total: 30 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Cook: 20 min
Achieving perfect mashed potatoes requires a little extra effort but the results are sublime. You cannot use a food processor, blender or any other motorized apparatus to mash the potatoes. Processing potatoes by hand using a ricer, food mill, potato masher or even just a wooden spoon yields perfect potatoes every time. Russet and Yukon gold potatoes make the best mashed potatoes. Choose firm potatoes without a hint of green and no soft or discolored spots. Do not refrigerate your potatoes or the potato starch will gradually change into sugar, causing unpleasantly sweet potatoes that will not cook up well.
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Ingredients

2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes, peeled, cut into even sized, large chunks

3/4 cups low-fat buttermilk

Salt and cracked black pepper

2 1/2 tablespoons sambal oelek, more or less to taste

Directions

  1. Place potatoes in a medium saucepan, cover with cold water, heat to boiling, reduce the heat and simmer until cooked through, about 12 to 16 minutes. Drain in a colander. Immediately place potatoes back in pot you cooked them in and place on same burner, which has been turned off. Stir occasionally over next 5 minutes to let potatoes dry out.
  2. In a small saucepan, warm buttermilk over medium low heat. Do not boil. Pass potatoes through a ricer or food mill. Alternatively, leave potatoes in pot and mash by hand using a potato masher or wooden spoon. Stir in enough warmed buttermilk to obtain desired consistency. Add salt and cracked black pepper to taste, stir until combined. Add sambal oelek, a teaspoon at a time, tasting after each addition. Serve immediately.
  3. MORPH: The morph on this is a simple dish called baked egg mashed potatoes. All you do is place leftover mashed potatoes in a shallow baking dish. Make wells, crack eggs into the wells, cover with a thin layer of cheese and bake until the eggs are set.

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MK D.

I did not add the chili sauce to my potatoes, but I thought this was a great recipe because it had never occured to me to use low-fat buttermilk in mashed potatoes. I used yukon gold potatoes, boiled whole and passed through a potato ricer into the buttermilk. All they need is a bit of salt and they are perfect and low fat and no one has been able to tell the difference between these and those that are loaded with butter!

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