Creamy potato and wild garlic mash
- Published: 18 Feb 15
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
The intense flavour of wild garlic in this mash recipe contrasts beautifully with the creamy, fluffy potatoes.
You can learn how to forage for wild garlic here.
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Ingredients
- 1.5kg floury potatoes, such as maris piper, cut into chunks
- 50g unsalted butter
- 50g wild garlic leaves, sliced (see tip)
- Generous splash of double cream
- Grating of nutmeg
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Method
- Put the potatoes in a pan of cold salted water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 20 minutes until very tender, then drain and return to the pan briefly over a low heat to dry.
- Melt the butter in a small pan and fry the wild garlic for 30 seconds. Mash the potatoes with the cream, nutmeg and most of the garlicky butter. Stir through the fried wild garlic and the rest of the butter. Taste, season and serve.
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- Recipe from April 2012 Issue
Nutrition
Nutrition: per serving
- Calories
- 208kcals
- Fat
- 7.7g (4.7g saturated)
- Protein
- 4.1g
- Carbohydrates
- 30.4g (1.2g sugars)
- Fibre
- 3.4g
- Salt
- trace
delicious. tips
Wild garlic grows in abundance all over the countryside – you can smell it after the rain in the spring. Pick it (make sure you’re allowed to!), then wash well when you get home. Its garlicky flavour is fresh and intense but not overpowering.
If you can’t find any wild garlic, add 2 peeled young garlic cloves to the pan with the potatoes and mash them in at the end.
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