Creamy Chive Mashed Potatoes
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 2 lbs russet potatoes
- 1⁄2 cup low-fat cream cheese or fat free cream cheese
- 3⁄4 cup low-fat buttermilk (more or less depending on desired consistency of mashed potatoes)
- 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
- 2 tablespoons chives
- salt (to taste)
- pepper (to taste)
directions
- Peel and cube potatoes and boil for twenty minutes in heavily salted water.
- Allow all the ingredients to come to room temperature while the potatoes are boiling.
- Drain the potatoes and in the bottom of the pot add butter and cream cheese. Place potatoes back into the pot, but make sure the stove is turned off.
- Using a hand mixer (if you do not want to do this in the same cooking pot you can use whatever bowl you choose) start "mashing" the potatoes.
- Add in chives and black pepper to taste and mix to desired consistency.
- Taste for salt level and if it needs more add it in at this point.
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