Rustic Mashed Potatoes

Name: Rustic Mashed Potatoes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 pounds, russet potatoes, unpeeled, sliced ½ inch thick; 3/4 teaspoon, table salt, plus salt for cooking potatoes; 1 cup, half-and-half; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 10 pieces; 1/2 teaspoon, pepper

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2019

Side Dishes

Potatoes

No peeling, no fancy ingredients, no fuss—just perfect mashed potatoes.

SERVES4

TIME45 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For simple, uncomplicated rustic mashed potatoes, we left the skins on and simply sliced the potatoes before boiling them. Choosing starchier russet potatoes, rather than Yukon Golds or Red Bliss, gave us a fluffier mash, and cooking and ma...

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