French Mashed Potatoes with Cheese and Garlic (Aligot)

Name: French Mashed Potatoes with Cheese and Garlic (Aligot)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Europe, French
Ingredients: 2 pounds, Yukon Gold potatoes (4 to 6 medium), peeled, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices, rinsed well, and drained; , Table salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 medium, garlic cloves, minced or pressed through a garlic press (about 2 teaspoons); 1 - 1 1/2 cups, whole milk; 4 ounces, mozzarella cheese, shredded (about 1 cup) (see note); 4 ounces, Gruyère cheese, shredded (about 1 cup) (see note); , Ground black pepper

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2009, America's Test Kitchen TV

French cookery’s intensely rich, cheesy take on mashed potatoes flouts the rules. To Americanize the dish, we ignored a few more. Vive la résistance!

SERVES6

TIME45 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a lightened version of this recipe for French mashed potatoes with cheese and garlic, we chose medium-starch Yukon Gold potatoes and used a food processor to mash them. A combination of mozzarella and Gruyère gave our mashed potatoes re...

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