How to Make Potato Flakes Taste Better
May 26th 2010 Posted at Cooking Tips, Potato
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Here are a few tricks to make instant mashed potato flakes or buds taste better.
Sour Cream
Use sour cream and water instead of the milk that the recipes on the boxes or bag normally ask for. For every quarter cup of milk, you’ll use about a tablespoon of cour cream. Make up the rest of the needed moisture with water.
Eastern European “Vegetable Condiment”
Vegetable condiment is sort of like a combination soup stock and seasoning that is popular throughout eastern Europe. It’s basically dried chopped and powdered vegetables, seasoning, and salt. It is usually very inexpensive, and comes in many flavors, and is made by a few different companies. Pick the types that don’t contain any MSG. Use a half teaspoon of vegetable condiment for every cup of finished mashed potatoes. If you can’t find vegetable condiment, try chicken soup powder.
Mayonnaise
Adding about a teaspoon of mayonnaise to every cup of finished mashed potatoes is said to make them taste more like fresh potatoes. I don’t agree, but it does make them more flavorful than plain. Use real mayonnaise, not the “salad spread” that hardly has any eggs in it.