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Mashed Potatoes made with roasted garlic, butter and sour cream are an easy make ahead side dish and one of the best mashed potato recipes you’ll find!
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes are easy to make & are loaded with amazing flavor. Perfect for a weekday dinner side dish and are a huge hit at Thanksgiving.
I just so happened to make these roasted garlic mashed potatoes when we had friends over for dinner. I wanted to make something I had already posted on the blog so I wouldn’t feel pressure to photograph anything, so we cooked up a couple of roasted chickens (which I used the leftovers to make green chile enchilada casserole), herbed green beans with corn, and these mashed potatoes.
I thought, “potatoes – boring. I won’t want to photograph those”. Well, once I mixed them up and tasted them, there was no way I wasn’t going to share the recipe with you! They were that good.
How to roast Garlic:
See that gorgeous roasted garlic? When I roast garlic, I always roast a lot more than I need for the current recipe and keep the cloves in the frig. The husband will pop them like candy.
- To make roasted garlic cloves, you need to first preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- You will then cut the stem end, which is the opposite of the root end, off of the head of the garlic to reveal the tips of the cloves.
- Next you will remove the outer papery-like skin, leaving the inner skin on. Place your garlic cloves in an oven safe dish.
- The next step is to drizzle some olive oil over your garlic cloves before roasting the cloves in the oven. You will keep your garlic cloves in the oven until they are golden brown and fragrant. Overall, it should take around 20 minutes for your roasted garlic cloves to be done.
What can you add to mashed potatoes for flavor?
Some people may think that mashed potatoes can be a little bland and boring. However, these roasted garlic mashed potatoes are far from that!
The main ingredient in these garlic roasted mashed potatoes are red skinned potatoes. The ingredients that you add to the potatoes are what really gives these garlic mashed potatoes their flavor.
You will be adding kosher salt, roasted garlic, butter, sour cream, and then more salt and pepper at the end to your own personal taste. As you can see, these ingredients make up easy garlic mashed potatoes that have a ton of added flavor to them!
How do you make roasted garlic mashed potatoes?
Homemade roasted garlic mashed potatoes are super easy to make. You will start by placing your chopped potatoes in a large pot of water and bringing it to a boil after adding the kosher salt to it. It should be about 15-20 minutes until your potatoes are tender and ready. You can also cook the potatoes in the Instant Pot.
While this is happening, you can start roasting your garlic, like I already explained above.
Once you have finished boiling your potatoes and roasted your garlic, you will drain your potatoes and mash up your roasted garlic. Make sure to separate the cloves from any of the skin before doing this. You will mash your roasted garlic cloves until they form a paste. Then, you will add your cooked potatoes, smashed and roasted garlic, butter, and sour cream to a stand mixer and mix on low until your mashed potatoes reach the consistency that you desire. This should take around two to four minutes. The final step is to salt and pepper your roasted garlic mashed potatoes to how you like and serve! Enjoy!
Can you make these mashed potatoes ahead of time?
You can totally make these roasted garlic potatoes ahead of time. You will start by making your garlic mashed potatoes like it is stated above and then refrigerating them. You will then have to reheat your mashed potatoes on low in a slow cooker until they are warm, making sure to stir occasionally. Once your roasted garlic mashed potatoes are warm, change your slow cooker from low to warm. If you think your garlic mashed potatoes look a little dry, you can add some chicken broth or more butter to liven them up.
For Thanksgiving, I always cook as much as possible the day before so that effort and clean up is minimal on Thanksgiving day. These are no exception. Make them ahead of time and on the day of, keep them warm (or as the husband likes – piping hot) in the slow cooker! I do the same thing when we have company over for dinner so that I have less mess to worry about.
Love roasted garlic recipes?
You’ll definitely want to try:
- Roasted Garlic Beet Hummus
- Roasted Garlic Broccolini
- Roasted Garlic Cocktail Pups
- Roasted Garlic Toast
- BLT with Sun Dried Tomato Roasted Garlic Aioli
Looking for recipe variations of Mashed Potatoes? Try these:
- Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes
- Gorgonzola Celery Root Mashed Potatoes
- Loaded Cheesy Mashed Potato Casserole
- Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes
- Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 pounds red skinned potatoes skin on, chopped
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 head garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 tablespoons butter cut into slices
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place chopped potatoes in large pot and cover with cool water. Add teaspoon of kosher salt. Over high heat, bring to a boil and continue to cook until the potatoes are very tender, about 15-20 minutes. Drain.Alternatively, place potatoes in Instant Pot with one cup water and cook on high pressure for 12 minutes. Drain.
- Meanwhile, cut stem end (opposite of root end) off head of garlic to expose tips of cloves. Remove outer papery skin, but leave inner skin on. Place in an oven safe dish. Drizzle with olive oil. Roast in 400 degree F oven until golden brown and fragrant, about 20 minutes.
- Once garlic has roasted and is cool enough to handle, separate cloves from any of the skin. With the side of a large knife, smash cloves into a paste.
- In bowl of stand mixer, combine cooked potatoes, smashed roasted garlic, butter, and sour cream. Mix on low until desired consistency is reached, about 2-4 minutes.
- Add salt and pepper as desired. Serve immediately.
- To make ahead, prepare as directed and refrigerate. To reheat, add potatoes to slow cooker and heat on low until warm, stirring occasionally. Once warm, change slow cooker setting from low to warm. If they appear dry, you can add chicken broth or, dare I say, more butter.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This post was originally created in November 2014 and has been updated with more fun facts and tidbits for your reading pleasure.
My husband made garlic mashed potatoes using a head’s worth of garlic cloves that had been simmered in half & half. The result was over-powering! I love garlic, but in something like potatoes, I think the flavor has to be a little more subtle. In fact, the garlic killed my taste buds and it was all I could taste in the whole meal. He just kept saying that there is no such thing as “too much garlic”.
Next time the meal plan called for mashed potatoes, I stepped in with your recipe. Everyone loved them! The roasting process made ALL the difference. The garlic added a nice edge to the dish without completely hiding the other ingredients (like — the potatoes) and the sour cream added a subtle tang and nice creaminess. Thank you!
Love it! So glad you showed him how to do it. 🙂 Great review. Much appreciated!!!
Roasted garlic adds such a great flavour to mashed potatoes – your recipe sounds delicious!
I love mashed potatoes. They are my favorite side dish. The only thing that can make them better are loads of garlic. I bet the addition of sour cream adds a nice richness to these.
Garlic mashed potatoes are my favorite food, cannot wait to try your recipe!! Thanks so much for sharing!
A great recipe my family loved it and I definitely would make it again!
I think mashed potatoes can be bland or AMAZING!! Roasted garlic is certainly my preferred tasty mashed potatoes recipe. And thanks for the great make ahead tip!
Loved the step by step photos and process, thank you – these were so flavorful!