Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Make Them Today, So You Can Eat Tomorrow
When it comes to holiday dinners, the more dishes you can make ahead, the better, right?
Mashed potatoes are central to our holiday meals (how else can you make gravy volcanoes?) and they are the easiest thing in the world to make ahead.
Stress-free! (At least the potato part.)
An Easy Mashed Potatoes Recipe
In this simple recipe we are are mashing boiled potatoes and garlic (a potato ricer is helpful for making everything fluffy), mixing them with butter, cream cheese, yogurt, and a touch of rosemary.
The cream cheese helps fortify the mashed potatoes so they reheat well, and the yogurt gives them a light tang. You could also use sour cream.
Heap the baking dish with the potatoes, and chill until a couple hours before dinner time, then let come to room temp and bake. Easy!
Make-Ahead or Freeze!
Once prepared, let the mashed potatoes cool completely, then cover and store in the fridge for up to two days.
You can also freeze these mashed potatoes for up to two weeks. The high fat content in these mashed potatoes means that they will freeze and thaw just fine.
To freeze, first line your casserole dish with a layer of aluminum foil followed by a layer of plastic wrap. Add the mashed potatoes, cool completely, then freeze in the casserole dish until solid.
Once frozen, use the foil to lift the mashed potatoes out of the pan by lifting up on the foil. This way, the mashed potatoes are molded in the shape of your casserole dish, but your dish isn’t tied up in the freezer for weeks. (The layer of plastic wrap between the mashed potatoes and the foil protects the potatoes from picking up a metallic flavor from the foil.)
Cover the top of the frozen mashed potatoes with plastic wrap and another layer of foil, so the mashed potatoes are completely protected. Freeze fro up to two weeks.
How to Warm Frozen Mashed Potatoes
Frozen mashed potatoes can either be thawed overnight in the fridge, or warmed while still frozen. Either way, unwrap the block of mashed potatoes from the plastic wrap and foil, and place it back in the original casserole dish. If thawing overnight, cover and place in the fridge.
If your mashed potatoes are thawed, followed the reheating directions in the recipe as written. If reheating from frozen, add 15 to 20 minutes onto the warming time. You may want to stir the mashed potatoes once or twice while reheating to make sure they are warming evenly.
If the frozen mashed potatoes seem a bit watery when reheated, just stir in some more butter or cream cheese.
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Updated November 24, 2018 : We spiffed up this post a little to make it sparkle! No changes to the recipe.
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