American
Mashed Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. 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
- 2.5 lb russet potatoes
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Peel and cube the potatoes, then boil in salted water until fork-tender, about 15 minutes.
- Drain well and return the potatoes to the pot.
- Mash with the butter and milk until smooth.
- Season with salt and pepper and serve.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside 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
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. 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 | Baked Sweet Potato |
| 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
Mashed Potatoes takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. 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 the United States.
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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