Healthy Mashed Potatoes – Eat Yourself Skinny

These Healthy Mashed Potatoes are creamy, completely scrumptious and made lighter with Greek yogurt, much less potatoes and a complete head of cauliflower!  The good aspect dish to your vacation desk or weeknight dinner.

Mashed potatoes have at all times been a staple aspect dish in my household rising up served with turkey on Thanksgiving and with our ham on Christmas.  Unfortunately, potatoes are likely to get a foul rap as a result of they’re greater in carbohydrates so individuals assume they’re unhealthy, nevertheless the way you put together them is essential!  For this healthy mashed potato recipe, we’re chopping down on the potatoes and sneaking in a complete head of cauliflower for some additional veg and utilizing protein-packed Greek yogurt to make this so creamy.  If you’re on the lookout for a low-carb possibility although, my mashed cauliflower recipe is scrumptious!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Healthier than conventional mashed potatoes and nonetheless so creamy.
• You’ll by no means guess a complete head of cauliflower is on this recipe!
• Easily made multi functional pot in simply half-hour.
• Perfect aspect dish for Thanksgiving, Christmas or weeknight dinner.

Ingredients You’ll Need

• potatoes – I personally desire to make use of Yukon gold potatoes on account of their pure yellow colour and buttery texture, however you could possibly additionally use russet potatoes.
• cauliflower – provides in some additional nutrition and permits us to make use of much less potatoes holding this dish lighter and decrease in carbs.  You’ll want one complete head of cauliflower.
• Greek yogurt – takes the place of bitter cream or cream cheese that’s sometimes utilized in mashed potato recipes and provides in some protein making these mashed potatoes so creamy.
• milk – I used unsweetened almond milk to chop down on the fats and energy that milk and cream historically convey to mashed potatoes, however be at liberty to make use of skim milk or any sort of milk you favor.
• rooster broth – this provides additional taste whereas permitting us to make use of much less milk.  If you don’t have low sodium rooster broth you should use vegetable broth and even additional milk.
• butter – you don’t want plenty of butter in these more healthy mashed potatoes, however they certain do make such a distinction and provides them that basic style.  You can even use vegan butter as a dairy-free possibility.
• seasonings – mixture of garlic powder (or you could possibly use minced garlic cloves), salt and black pepper to season the mashed potatoes.
• recent herbs – that is elective, however I used a mix of recent thyme together with some recent chives to garnish these potatoes.  You might additionally add in recent parsley, rosemary or sage.

How to Make Healthy Mashed Potatoes

1. Chop, chop, chop.  Peel and lower your potatoes into 2-inch chunks and chop the top of cauliflower into florets.  Set them apart.
2. Boil the potatoes.  Place the potatoes solely (maintain off on the cauliflower for now) to a big pot of salted water and convey to a boil.  Reduce the warmth to medium-low, cowl and let the potatoes simmer for about quarter-hour.
3. Add the cauliflower.  Add within the cauliflower florets and proceed to simmer for an extra 8 to 9 minutes, till cauliflower and potatoes are mushy and fork tender.
4. Mash.  Drain the potatoes and cauliflower then add them again into the pot they have been cooked in.  Add the milk, Greek yogurt, rooster broth, butter, garlic powder, salt and pepper and both mash utilizing a potato masher or mix every part utilizing an electric mixer (or stand mixer) till you get your required consistency and a pleasant creamy texture.  I personally desire to make use of a hand mixer because it actually will get the mashed potatoes completely fluffy!
5. Serve.  Transfer mashed potatoes to a bowl, style and season with extra salt and pepper, if wanted, and garnish with recent thyme and chives.  Enjoy!

How to Serve Mashed Potatoes

Mashed potatoes make a terrific vacation aspect, however they’re additionally scrumptious with different on a regular basis dinners!  Here are a few of my favourite recipes to serve with these mashed potatoes.

Prepping and Storage

You can retailer leftovers in a sealed-hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days.  You can simply reheat these mashed potatoes on the range prime or within the microwave.

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