81% less fat • 31% fewer calories • 86% more iron than the original recipe. If you think you have to give up your favorite mashed potatoes, think again.
Skinny Mashed Potatoes
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 45 min
- Servings 10
- Ingredients 6
Ingredients
- 3 lb unpeeled red or Yukon gold potatoes (about 8 medium), cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 to 2/3 cup buttermilk
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives, if desired
Instructions
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Step1In 3-quart saucepan, place potatoes; add just enough water to cover. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender; drain.
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Step2In same saucepan, mash potatoes, oil and salt with potato masher just until lumpy. Gradually add buttermilk, mashing until blended but still lumpy. (Amount of buttermilk needed to make potatoes creamy depends on variety of potatoes used.) Season to taste with pepper. Stir in chives.
Nutrition
130
Calories
1 1/2g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
25g
Total Carbohydrate
2g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 130
- Calories from Fat
- 15
- Total Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 3%
- Saturated Fat
- 0g
- 0%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 135mg
- 6%
- Potassium
- 780mg
- 22%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 25g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 13%
- Sugars
- 2g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 15%
- 15%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 15%
- 15%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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