German
Kartoffelpueree (German Mashed Potatoes)
Kartoffelpueree (German Mashed Potatoes) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb starchy potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 4 tbsp butter
- 3/4 cup whole milk, warmed
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Put the potatoes in a large pot of salted water, bring to a boil, and cook for 15 to 18 minutes, until completely fork-tender.
- Drain the potatoes well and return them to the warm pot for a minute to steam off excess moisture.
- Mash the potatoes with a potato masher or ricer until smooth.
- Beat in the butter and warmed milk a little at a time until the mash is light and creamy.
- Season with the nutmeg, salt, and pepper; this is the staple starch that anchors a German plate alongside the main dish.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kartoffelpueree (German Mashed Potatoes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kartoffelpueree (German Mashed Potatoes) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Kartoffelsalat Norddeutsche Art (Cold North German Potato Salad) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Kartoffelpueree (German Mashed Potatoes) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on potato, butter, and milk.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Germany.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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