Red and Gold Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter

Catapult your mashed potatoes to the NEXT LEVEL with one simple ingredient - brown butter! When you take butter just past the melting point (and before the burning point), the milk solids caramelize and create the most wonderful nutty flavor. Add that nuttiness to creamy mashed potatoes and you completely change the game. It's an unbelievable transformation, and just one little tweak.

Just keep an eye on the butter, you want BROWN butter, not black butter!

About the garlic: I always throw a few garlic cloves in with my potatoes when they're boiling. The cloves soften right along with the spuds and become mashable! Just mash them right in with the potatoes for that wonderful, sweet garlic flavor we all love so much.

About the potatoes: I used petite red and gold potatoes for this, but really any size potato works here. And, leave the skin on so you can enjoy little specs of red and gold in the finished dish. Plus, there's tons of fiber in that skin.

Red and Gold Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter

1 1/2 pounds small or petite red and gold potatoes, unpeeled cut into 2-inch chunks
3 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus a little more for serving if desired
1/4 cup milk, plus more if needed
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
Salt and ground black pepper

Place the potatoes and garlic cloves in a large saucepan and pour over enough water to cover by about 2 inches. Set the pan over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-high and boil for 12 to 15 minutes, until the potatoes are fork-tender.
Drain.
Melt 3 tablespoons of the butter in the same pan over medium heat. Cook until the butter is just past the melting point, until the butter becomes light brown. Remove the pan from the heat and return the potatoes to the pan with the milk and onion powder. Mash until smooth (or a little chunky if you like it that way), adding more milk if necessary. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve (I like to add a little more butter on top for serving).

Serves 4