Description
Creamy baked mashed potatoes elevate comfort food with rich, velvety goodness that melts in your mouth. Cheese, butter, and herbs blend perfectly, creating a side dish that makes dinner companions swoon with delight.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 4 lbs (1.8 kg) Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- ½ cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 4 ounces (113 grams) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) sour cream
- ½ cup (120 milliliters) whole milk or heavy cream
Seasoning and Flavor Enhancers:
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Topping and Garnish:
- ½ cup (50 grams) grated Parmesan cheese
- Fresh chives or parsley, chopped
Instructions
- Warm the oven to 375F (190C) and generously coat a 9×13-inch baking vessel with butter, ensuring complete coverage.
- Select robust potatoes and submerge them in a generously salted cold water bath, allowing them to simmer vigorously over medium-high temperature until extraordinarily tender, approximately 15-20 minutes.
- Carefully drain the potatoes, returning them to the original cooking vessel and transforming them into a silky-smooth consistency using a potato masher or precision ricer.
- Incorporate butter, cream cheese, sour cream, and milk into the velvety potato mixture, blending thoroughly until achieving a luxuriously creamy texture.
- Enhance the flavor profile by introducing garlic powder, salt, and pepper, meticulously adjusting the seasoning to cultivate a harmonious taste.
- Elegantly transfer the creamy potato mixture into the prepared baking dish, spreading uniformly to create an even surface.
- Adorn the potato landscape with delicate butter fragments and optional Parmesan cheese sprinklings for added decadence.
- Position the dish in the preheated oven, allowing the potatoes to transform for 25-30 minutes until developing a golden, slightly crisp exterior.
- Remove from oven and garnish with freshly chopped chives or parsley, presenting a visually appealing and aromatic side dish ready to be savored immediately.
Notes
- Use starchy potatoes like Russet or Yukon Gold for the fluffiest, most creamy texture that absorbs butter and cream perfectly.
- Avoid overworking the potatoes when mashing to prevent a gluey, paste-like consistency that can make them heavy and dense.
- Warm your dairy ingredients before mixing to ensure smooth integration and prevent cold lumps in the final dish.
- For a lighter version, substitute half the cream cheese with Greek yogurt and use low-fat milk to reduce calories without sacrificing richness.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Side Dish
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 364
- Sugar: 2 g
- Sodium: 494 mg
- Fat: 21 g
- Saturated Fat: 13 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 34 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 7 g
- Cholesterol: 42 mg