Smashed Potatoes - Steam Style!

Here’s a quick and easy recipe for everybody’s favourite: Mashed Potatoes! Now before you say all mashed potatoes recipes are quick and easy, let me tell you about a French version I once saw that had at least 19 steps... I know, what ever happened to step 1: boil and step 2: smash!
Anyway, my recipe is not quite as easy as boil and smash but it is easy enough.

The idea of this technique is to steam the potatoes rather than boiling them, this doesn’t allow the potatoes to absorb as much liquid and get watery and you get a chance to add some flavour to the potatoes by flavouring the water in the steamer.

Another added bonus is that you get to dice the potatoes to small pieces (liquid is not absorbed remember...) which reduces the cooking time and makes the smashing much easier.

Here’s the recipe. Give it a try and let me know what you think...

Peal (optional) and dice 5 potatoes.
Bring some water to a boil in your favourite steaming pot.
Here’s the fun part: flavour the water with whatever flavours you’d like to have in the potatoes. I usually add crushed garlic, pizza spice mix, nutmeg, and some chicken stock.
Add the potatoes to the steamer, cover and steam until potatoes are tender (about 15 minutes)
Move potatoes to a bowl, add butter/milk/cream/salt/pepper to your liking.
Smash away to the desired smoothness.