Garlic And Olive Oil Smashed Yukon Gold Potatoes Food

CRISP GARLIC YUKON GOLD POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°F Brush a baking sheet with 1 tablespoon of the oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Arrange the gold potatoes on the baking sheet, cut side down, and bake for 45 minutes, or until crisp and golden brown. Transfer the potatoes to a bowl.
• Heat the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil in a large skillet. Add the garlic and cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until crisp and lightly browned; do not let the garlic get too brown or it will be bitter.
• Pour the garlic and oil over the potatoes, add the parsley and toss. Season with salt and pepper and serve at once.

GARLIC AND OLIVE OIL SMASHED YUKON GOLD POTATOES

Steps:

• Steam potato wedges until very tender, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat 5 tablespoons oil in large skillet over low heat. Add garlic; sauté until golden, about 6 minutes.
• Add potatoes and thyme to skillet. Mash coarsely. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl, drizzle with remaining 1 tablespoon oil, and serve.

GARLIC YUKON GOLD MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place the potatoes and garlic in a large saucepan. Cover with 1 to 2 inches cold water and season generously with salt; the water should taste like the sea. Bring the pot of water to a boil and cook until the potatoes are fork-tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Drain the potatoes and garlic well and pass through a food mill or ricer. DO NOT use a food processor or blender; it will result in a very sticky and rubbery end product.
• While passing the potatoes, bring the heavy cream to a boil in a small saucepan and remove from the heat.
• While the potatoes are still hot, add one-third of the cream and the butter and stir vigorously into the potatoes. Repeat this process with the remaining cream until you achieve a velvety and smooth consistency. Taste the potatoes for seasoning and add salt if needed. Serve immediately or cover with foil and keep warm in an oven on low heat.

OLIVE OIL SMASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Put the potatoes in a large saucepan with salted cold water to cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and return to the pot. Smash the potatoes with a large fork or potato masher.
• Add lemon zest and olive oil. Fold into potatoes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

MASHED YUKON GOLDS WITH ROASTED GARLIC

Steps:

• You first need to make the roasted garlic; four heads are enough for this recipe, but I suggest you do more, as the roasted garlic keeps in the fridge for at least a week, or it can be frozen (squeeze the garlic buds out of the skins first) and then you can just break off what you need.
• To prepare roasted garlic, preheat oven to 375F.
• Using a sharp knife, cut off the top third or so of each garlic bulb, exposing the cloves; remove all the papery white skin that you can, but leave the bulb intact.
• Place cut garlic heads on a piece of foil that is big enough to just come up around the heads and cover them.
• Drizzle about 1 tsp of olive oil over the exposed top of each head.
• Bring foil up around the heads to seal, then place this foil package on a pie plate and slide into preheated oven for about 40 to 50 minutes; when done, garlic will be very soft.
• As soon as it is cool enough to handle, squeeze garlic into a small bowl and set aside; if you are ambitious, keep the roasted skins that are left behind and use them in a stock.
• You can't get around it, your fingers are going to get garlicky and sticky--but it really is a fun task!
• Now, to make the potatoes (and all you're really doing now is making mashed potatoes, likely the way you always do): put chopped potato chunks in a large pot and cover with cold water, lightly salt, and bring it to a boil over high heat.
• When potatoes are cooked through (test with the point of a sharp knife or a fork), about 20 minutes after the potatoes boil (depending on how big you cut your chunks), drain well and then return to pot; with heat on high, shake potatoes around in pot for about 20 to 30 seconds to dry them out a bit; then remove pot from burner.
• Using a potato masher, mash potatoes, adding soft butter and the roasted garlic.
• When all chunks have been mashed, add half of the warm milk (or cream, if you wish) and keep mashing; add more milk if needed until potatoes are the consistency you want.
• Try the potatoes; add salt and pepper to taste.

OLIVE OIL AND GARLIC WHIPPED POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Separate garlic head into cloves, discarding loose papery outer skin but keeping skin intact on cloves, and wrap tightly in foil. Roast garlic in middle of oven 30 minutes, or until soft. Unwrap garlic and cool slightly. Peel skins from each clove and on a plate with a fork mash garlic pulp until smooth.
• While garlic is roasting, peel potatoes and cut into 2-inch pieces. In a 4-quart kettle cover potatoes with cold salted water by 2 inches and simmer until potatoes are very tender, about 30 minutes. Drain potatoes in a colander and transfer to a large bowl. With a potato masher mash potatoes. Add garlic pulp, 3/4 cup oil, milk, salt, nutmeg, and pepper and with an electric mixer beat until smooth.
• Serve potatoes drizzled with remaining 1/4 cup oil.