If you love mashed potatoes, you are going to LOVE love love these in the Instant Pot. One pot, 30 minutes and done. Fluffy, creamy, perfect, and honestly just so low maintenance. They are infused with an herby butter, so they’re rich and interesting, but also: E-A-S-Y. You get both. Your mashed potato life will never be the same. comment icon 226 more comments
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Ingredients For This Recipe How to make mashed potatoes in the Instant Pot Frequently asked questions about Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes The best potato for mashed potatotes in the Instant Pot Ways to use leftover mashed potatoes WATCH how to make Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
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Reasons To Love These Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
There are so many! Here are the ones that make me jump up and down:
Garlic Herb Butter
This is not necessary, but I highly recommend. Sauté butter, garlic, and fresh herbs like sage, thyme, and/or rosemary to make a garlic herb butter.
Something Creamy
I like to use either cream cheese or sour cream to make things really creamy.
Cheese
Cheese is optional in this, but seriously… why not? Parmesan is a favorite for a little something extra!
Liquids
You can use broth or milk, just something for the potatoes to cook in!
You can use russet potatoes or yukon potatoes (some commenters have used red potatoes as well). You can peel your potatoes, or leave the peels. It’s ready to go in 30 minutes with very little fuss. It has amazing garlic herb flavor. But also, you can pick the herbs you like, and you can decide how much garlic, and basically it’s a choose your own adventure.
How To Make Mashed Potatoes In The Instant Pot
I am not kidding when I say that these will cut significant time out of your Thanksgiving prep time. While these cook away, you could be making the cranberry sauce, assembling the stuffing, chatting with your Aunt Nancy, whatever. Here’s how easy it is: And you’re done!
What Is The Best Potato For Mashed Potatoes In The Instant Pot?
I’ve had success with many types of potatoes:
Russet potatoes Yukon potatoes Red potatoes
Besides some variations in taste and texture, the timing will be adjusted slightly for each type. Russet potatoes need a bit more time because they are larger, and red and yukon potatoes don’t need quite as long because they’re smaller. Russet potatoes are the standard potatoes used for mashed potatoes but I love Yukon potatoes as well.
Ways To Use Leftover Mashed Potatoes
If you haven’t completely conquered this batch of mashed potatoes when all is said and done, thankfully there’s no shortage of ways to use them. Here are a few ideas:
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie (easy, yummy, cozy, SO GOOD) Leftover Mashed Potatoes Gnocchi from Life as a Strawberry Everything Cheesy Potato and Egg Casserole from Half Baked Harvest Loaded Mashed Potato Cakes from Spend with Pennies Mashed Potato Doughnuts from Dinner with Julie Potato Rolls from Spicy Southern Kitchen
Mashed potatoes forever. ❤️
Other Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes
Sweet Potato Casserole (a Thanksgiving staple!) Bacon and Brussels Sprout Salad (the salad I bring to EVERY Thanksgiving) Baked Mac and Cheese (perfectly cheesy with a buttery crispy top) Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie (perfect use of leftover potatoes too!) Pumpkin Dessert Bars (let’s just say these include yellow cake mix – thank me later!)
One More Thing!
This recipe is part of our coziest comfort food recipes page. Check it out! 4.7 from 74 reviews A few comments have noted that 12 minutes was not enough time to cook their potatoes. This is most likely because of the size variation of potatoes. I like to try to get evenly sized potato pieces without spending a lot of time cutting them up all (you’re just going to mash them anyway!) so I usually cut the big ones in half and leave the rest alone. But if you’re working with very large potatoes, you may want to cut them into quarters, or cook them for closer to 15 minutes. To prevent lumpy potatoes, mash them right after they’re done cooking. Don’t let them sit around for too long. They’ll develop a skin and it will be harder to get them to mash smoothly and evenly. This is the Instant Pot that we use. (affiliate link) A previous version of this recipe was written for half of this amount.
