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Ina Garten's Secret Ingredient For Creamy Mashed Potatoes
By Betsy Parks
If you want something more inspired in your next batch of mashed potatoes, do what Ina Garten does and add goat cheese to give it some complexity.
Goat cheese is a light, tangy, fresh cheese made with goat milk, and it has an unmistakable gamey flavor that adds sourness to fatty, salty mashed potatoes.
In Garten's recipe for goat cheese mashed potatoes, she adds around 7 to 8 ounces of herbed goat cheese to 3 pounds of boiled Yukon Gold mashed potatoes.
The goat cheese is for flavoring, so you'll still need milk and butter. Garten also uses a little sour cream to enhance the tangy flavor of the cheese and add a creamy texture.
Because potatoes are so temperature-sensitive, it's a good idea to let your goat cheese come to room temperature before you mix it in.
Once everything is combined, serve your goat cheese potatoes while they're hot, and sit back and wait for the compliments to come rolling in.