All these years I have been making smashed potatoes all wrong.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
I am no stranger to making smashed potatoes.
If smashed potatoes were a language, I would consider myself proficient, perhaps even a native speaker.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Then I use the bottom of an oiled measuring cup to gently smash them down.
Simple, effective, and easy.
The thing about cooking is that theresalwaysroom for improvementits an insanely maddening yet simultaneously beautiful thing.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
My smashed potato confidence was flipped upside down when I assisted a fellow personal chef with a private dinner.
There were smashed potatoes on the menu, and I noticed that heroastedthe potatoes instead of boiling them.
This initially struck me as a minor difference.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Roasting the potatoes instead of boiling makes more sense for a handful of reasons.
No need for a pot to boil the potatoes or a colander to drain them.
Its a small win but a good one, at that.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Efficiency reasons aside, the roasting method is also superior because of the results.
I can confidently say thatthisis the only way to make smashed potatoes.
Hot pans yield crispy food, you feel me?
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
There is a part of me that feels super bummed that Ijusthad this spud epiphany recently.
from making the same mistakes as me.
