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Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes, made with roasted garlic, fresh herbs, and gold potatoes, are an easy side dish recipe perfect for dinner!
Who doesn’t love some really good mashed potatoes? They’re basically the perfect side dish recipe that you can enjoy at dinner time! Can you imagine how good these roasted garlic mashed potatoes would taste next to a perfectly cooked prime rib roast? How about along side some homemade chicken parmesan? How about with some Creamy Garlic Pork Marsala. Yeah. I thought you’d agree!
There are a few tips and tricks to making the most flavorful, creamy, downright delicious mashed potatoes, and I’ll share all my secrets!
How do you roast garlic?
For this recipe, I add whole cloves of roasted garlic. Adding raw garlic to a side dish recipe like mashed potatoes can be too intense. Roasting garlic not only softens the texture, but it mellows the flavor and makes it a welcome addition to so many dishes.
There are many ways to roast garlic, but I’ll share how I do it. Instead of using a head of garlic with the papery shell, I buy a big bag of peeled garlic.
I line a baking dish with parchment, add as much garlic as I think I can consume over the span of a few weeks, then drizzle some olive oil on top. I roast this in a 350 degree oven for about 40 minutes while stirring every 10 minutes or so.
Roasted garlic can go from perfectly golden to burnt in a matter of minutes, so be sure to keep an eye on it.
What herbs taste best with mashed potatoes?
I’m a huge fan of fresh basil, so that is my most recommended herb. When you’re cooking potatoes, you can’t go wrong with fresh chives either.
Other herbs that I like to add to my mashed potatoes, but use more sparingly, are rosemary, oregano, parsley, and sometimes a bit of sage.
When adding fresh herbs to recipes like garlic mashed potatoes, it’s more of a matter of personal preference.
How to make the most delicious creamy roasted garlic herb mashed potatoes:
- I love to cook potatoes in broth. For this particular recipe, I used beef broth but you can use any kind that you like.
- Cooking potatoes in the Instant Pot is my preferred method. Not only is it the quickest way to make mashed potatoes, but I find that it makes them super soft and moist. You can also steam them on the stove top if you don’t have a pressure cooker.
- I’ve found that equal portions of butter and cream cheese make the creamiest mashed potatoes. If you haven’t tried it, you must!
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Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes
- 4 tablespoons cream cheese
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 tablespoons roasted garlic
- 1 tablespoon minced basil
- 1 tablespoon minced rosemary
- 1 tablespoon minced thyme
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
- 2 teaspoons salt
- freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Prepare 2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes by cleaning them and cutting them into 1 inch sized pieces. Add the potatoes to a large pot and fill with water to cover the potatoes. Bring the water to a boil over high heat, and then reduce to medium-high cooking the potatoes until fork tender about 20 minutes.
- Drain the potatoes in a colander and return to the large pot. Add in 4 tablespoons cream cheese, 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, 4 tablespoons roasted garlic, 1 tablespoon minced basil , 1 tablespoon minced rosemary , 1 tablespoon minced thyme, 1 tablespoon minced chives , 2 teaspoons salt and freshly ground pepper.
- Mash the potatoes with a hand mixer or potato masher until smooth and creamy. Serve!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Glad to see gold potatoes and not russet.
Frank
How do you cook 2 lbs. of cut up potatoes “in broth” when the recipe only calls for one cup of broth? Are we steaming these in a steamer basket over the broth or what? Exceedingly frustrating recipe because it makes no sense, so I will do my best to work around.
This recipe is amazing! My husband and kids couldn’t get enough! I used jarred roasted garlic because it was last minute. I imagine it is even better with fresh roasted garlic, but I can’t imagine it any better!