Cook It Yourself - Delicious Mashed Potatoes

well hello everyone ! how was your day? having fun with life? Good. Prepare yourself because i'm going to share with you something that is useful or perhaps can ruin your diet plan, (if you're in the middle of diet). So, a few days ago i was craving for food (you know food?) like potatoes. So, yesterday, i decided to make my own rendition of Mashed Potatoes ! I'm using my beloved auntie's recipe for the potatoes but the gravy, i searched it on the net.

So, are you ready?

Okay, Let's start!

Ingredients needed :

• Potatoes (Any potatoes)
• Milk (Any milk)
• Butter
• Chicken Stock/Chicken Cube (for the gravy)
• Salt&Pepper
• Flour (for the gravy) 

Ingredients needed

I recommend you to use Russet potatoes as it taste much more better than the normal potatoes but you can just always use the normal potatoes, the taste would not vary so much.

As usual, before you do anything to the potatoes, rinse it first with water, just like what i did (he he )

rinse it twice or thrice just to make sure that you get rid all the dirt on the skin. Next step is to peel the skin. After you peeled the skin, you'll need to chop the potatoes into half like this :

naked potatoes ! Big chunks okay? Not small one.

After that, boil the potatoes. Put a little bit salt and half of the chicken cube or chicken stock powder into the wataah. Let it boil for 7-10 minutes (Please be patient, i know that some of you can't wait too long haha)

While waiting for the potatoes to boil you can always turn the radio on or what so ever and when the beat drops, drop it like a Masta ! haha (okay out of topic)

so, How do we know that the potatoes are well boiled? 

the easiest is to take out one cute potatoties out of the water and try to chop it with a fork, if its like you know, fall apart ? ( i can't think of any suitable words haha) then it's done but if its still feel a little bit hard then you need to let it boil again and wait for a couple of minutes.

so, the next step will be needing your lovely muscle and strength (not really! ha ha)

remove your potatoes from the boiled water and place it in a big bowl. 

and smash or crush or whatever with all of your strength! think of the ones that hate, the ones that cheat or lied to you, your exes, or yourself he he eceh (keep calm just enjoy it okay? ha ha) oh and yeah before you smash it, do not forget to put butter and milk (& a little bit of salt) into the bowl full with potatoties. 

if you think the milk is not enough, then add milk again it goes the same with the buttah.

after awhile your potatoties+milk+butter will be smooth like this: 

it will be really really smooth and super delicious!

smash it with your smasher until it turn out to be a smooth creamy potatoties but some prefer it the lumpy way, and again, it is up to you my dear :)

and you're done for the potatoes !

Now let's move to the gravy.

Oil your pan with vegetable oil. let it heat for awhile and pour in the flour little by little and mix it until it turn brownish. After that, pour in the chicken stock little by little and keep on stirring it. Stir it until it turns dark brown. You can also use chicken soup to replace chicken stock if you want and it taste good too!

i used a little bit of chicken stock and chicken soup and also don't forget to put black pepper!

So, that's it, our dish now is ready to be served! :) Enjoy your meals and if you make one according to this recipe or other recipe do tweet me a picture of your dish ! :) i would love to see it ! ^^ 

& thank you for reading and a lot more recipes coming soon ! 

p/s [ Disclaimer: this is not the only way to do mashed potatoes and the gravy, and some recipes that you found online might be the same as this one. please don't judge! All the best! ^^]

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