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Leftover Mashed Potatoes Are Ideal For Savory Tender Biscuits
By Jess Jeziorowski
If you end up with leftover mashed potatoes after a holiday feast or dinner party, the best way to use them is by making savory, tender buttermilk biscuits.
Mashed potato biscuits offer the best things you like about biscuits and mashed potatoes — tender, flaky layers and fluffy, buttery potatoes.
Mashed potatoes create such tender-tasting biscuits because of their starch content, which plays the part of the gluten, absorbing liquids and providing structure.
Mashed potato biscuits practically make themselves and only call for a few pantry staples like flour, buttermilk, baking powder, and baking soda.
You can either use fatty, delicious mashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream or plain mashed potatoes that you can just gently crumble into the dry ingredients.
After mixing the dry ingredients with the mashed potatoes, grate ice-cold butter into the bowl and handle it as little as possible so the biscuits stay fluffy.
Ideally, use ¼ cup of mashed potato for every cup of flour, and reducing your liquids by half should yield the most delicious results.