Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook - Mashed Potatoes

Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients:

Potatoes, peeled

Salt and pepper for seasoning

Cayenne pepper, just a pinch

For the adult version:

Milk

Frozen butter nuggets

Preparation:

The first thing to do is to wash, peel, and boil the potatoes in salted water until it is completely tender to the point of being crumbly. When the potatoes are cooked, mash them with a potato masher or a ricer or a fork.

The next step is important because it is the secret to amazing mashed potatoes. Transfer the mashed potatoes onto a pan and place on low heat. Keep on mixing the potatoes so that they don’t burn while the heat makes sure that the excess water evaporates. Continue to mix the potatoes on low heat until there is very little steam leaving them.

At this point, you can set a little aside, season with salt and pepper, let it cool and feed the mashed potatoes to your baby. For the adult version, this is the stage where you add the milk. Add the milk a little at a time along with a little salt and pepper so that you are also gradually seasoning. When you reach the consistency where when you take some of the potatoes in a spoon and hold it sideways above the pan and it drops by itself, then you’ve put in enough milk. For the last step, add a pinch of cayenne.

 Be careful not to add too much. Cayenne requires heat to release its flavors so it may take a little while before you can actually taste it.

Want to make the mashed potatoes more interesting? Throw in some chopped chives or some roasted garlic.

This is an excerpt from the book: Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook