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Mashed potatoes are usually made with potatoes, milk or cream, and perhaps butter. It is also popular to add cheese, roasted garlic, or other extras to mashed potatoes.
One reason eggs might be mixed into mashed potatoes would be when preparing a batter for potato pancakes.
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You can add an egg or two - whole eggs, or just the yolks - to potatoes after the milk, cream, or butter. Just push the potatoes out to the sides of the pan, drop in the just-beaten eggs and mix through. The potato mixture should still be warm, not hot.
Add only sufficient egg to incorporate without the mixture becoming too soft; add one at a time if unsure.
The added egg has the effect of making the mashed potato a little firmer on reheating, if you use the excellent option of making more than you immediately need and refrigerating the rest.
Once the potato has been refrigerated overnight you can cut it into slices and fry in butter for a delicious light meal. A traditional Irish breakfast is bacon, started in a cold pan and fried on medium heat until crisp; set aside, raise heat to medium-high and put a couple of slices of yesterday's mashed potatoes into the bacon fat (with a little butter, heated to foaming, if you like). Fry until browned on each side, set aside and keep warm while you quickly fry one egg per potato slice. Serve each potato slice with an egg on top, bacon on the side: you'll be glad you did!
You can also cut the mashed potato into squares and bake, as for duchess potatoes, below.
Adding egg to mashed potato is also good when using the potato as topping for a baked dish; the potato becomes firmer on baking, and is crisper on top.
Side dishes such as duchess potatoes (potato cakes) are made by mashing potatoes, butter and egg yolks together. Spoon or pipe into small heaps, about the size of a half-apple, onto a nonstick or greased tray or baking paper, brush lightly with egg yolk (beaten with sufficient water to make it coat the potato easily) and bake at 200C (400F) for about 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
Use a proportion of two yolks to 750g (24oz) potatoes when making duchess potatoes.
Plain mashed potatoes and potatoes mashed with egg can be frozen. Duchess potatoes can be made a couple of days ahead and refrigerated, covered, until ready to bake.
For a quick meal, slide a tray of pre-made duchess potatoes into the oven while you cook lamb chops or cutlets in a pan. Use wine or stock to deglaze the pan and reduce to make gravy; serve with a green vegetable if you like, and the potato cakes.
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Can somebody be allergic to mashed potatoes?
There are allergies to almost anything. For mashed potatoes, though, you might consider what has gone into the mashed potatoes. If milk or milk products were ingredients and someone who has milk allergies eats the mashed potatoes, then they will appear to be allergic to mashed potatoes. If sulfite-treated potatoes are used and the consumer is allergic to sulfites, they will likely have a reaction to the mashed potatoes.
What food is used in the zit scene of Animal House?
Mashed Potatoes
What is a potato masher use for?
A potato masher is used for mashing cooked potatoes in making mashed potatoes.
What are the best mashed potatoes?
The most commonly used words are "creamy" and "buttery." Oddly, these also describe the two most common ingredients added to boiled potatoes when mashing (cream or half-n-half and butter.) um...yum :)
How many calories in steak and mashed potato?
Calories in steak and mashed potatoThe calorie content of steak and mashed potato depends on how the steak is cooked, what kind of steak and potatoes are used, the weight of the steak and potatoes, whether you add milk and butter to the mashed potatoes and if so how much. Please feel free to ask the question again and include more details. Alternatively, for the calories in cooked steak by weight, and the calories in mashed potatoes by weight, see the page links, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.
Where and when did mashed potatoes originate?
Potatoes are native to the Andes Mountains in South America. A curious fact of culinary history is that there were no potatoes in Europe before the late 15th century. When potatoes are boiled, (a basic cooking method used in primitive cultures) the potatoes easily decompose in the water after a time. In fact, when making mashed potatoes, care must be taken not to overcook the mash. Chances are good that mashed potatoes (or something very much like them) were first eaten by the forebears of the indigenous Aymara and Inca people [who kept no surviving records of such trivia] in the Andes, millennia before Columbus.It's believed that Antoine Parmentier, a physician, was the first to make mashed potatoes, in a 1771 competition held in France.
What are some recipes for leftover food?
If you have leftover chicken you can grind it up and add celery and mayonnaise to make chicken salad. You can use leftover ham and mashed potatoes to make croquettes. Leftover ham can also be used the next day for ham and eggs.
What color potato is used for mash potatoes?
Potatoes that are contain more starch than the average are used as boiling potatoes. The color of a potato does not dictate its use due to there being hundreds of varieties of potatoes. Potatoes that are ideal for making mashed potatoes are russet varieties (the majority of Idaho grown potatoes are russet, and Caribe. Yukon Gold, Peruvian Blue, Superior, Kennebec, and Katahdin are all purpose potatoes.
What is an egg beater used for?
The rotary beater is used for beating eggs white or whipping cream
What is the function of potato masher?
it mashes potatoes
How do you say your mashed potatoes are awful in Chinese?
你的土豆泥做得很糟 [nǐ de tǔ dòu ní zuò dé shěn zāo] Another term frequently used for mashed potatoes is 薯泥 shu(3) ni(2) 薯 shu(3) is the shortened form of 马铃薯 ma(3) ling(2) shu(3), the Chinese term for 'potatoes'. You can also use a more generic phrase '薯泥不好吃' shu(3) ni(2) bu(4) hao(3) chi(1), meaning 'mashed potatoes are not nice', 'mashed potatoes taste awful'.
Why didn't the pilgrims whip up mashed potatoes at their big dinner?
Potatoes weren't something that the Pilgrims were used to eating. They'd been in the New World for less than a year. They still were learning their way around the names and uses of the different edibles in their new home. It was only much later that the potato became a standard in the diet of colonial America.
