Cooking A Mashed Potato Casserole Recipe
Recipe type: Potato Casserole
Everyone loves a good tasting Mashed Potato Casserole. There is no arguing that this cheese filled Mashed Potato Casserole is a comfort food. When the large casserole dish emerges from the oven with this quick gourmet dish I am in culinary heaven.
The secret to a good mashed potato casserole recipe is that it must be a quick, easy, fast, and simple casserole recipe to cook. When cooking casserole the chef must pay particular attention to the recipe for potato casserole.
When we cook this Mashed Potato Casserole dish it is certain that when you rest the casserole pan onto the dinner table you will have cooked a “quick healthy food.” Rest assured that the Mashed Potato Casserole will be thought of in the category of fast vegetarian recipes. It is a fact that the Mashed Potato Casserole is a fast easy recipe, it is a quick healthy food, and it is a simple casserole to cook.
Cooking this Mashed Potato Casserole with four different types of cheese will be the one of the best easy side dish recipes that you will ever have the enjoyment to cook. You can use it as a “make ahead” recipe, and because you are going to make it from scratch this homemade food is sure to please. And if all that was not enough…the leftovers are really fast cooking and taste great. Are you ready to make a delicious comfort food?
How To Make Mashed Potato Casserole
Ingredients
- 5 lbs of white potatoes that we need to peel and cut into 1 inch chunks. We are using white potatoes because of their low starch content.
- 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese
- 1 cup (approx 4 ounces) cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1/4 cup of blue cheese crumbles
- 3 ounces of softened cream cheese
- 8 ounce tub of sour cream
- Garlic Salt, One Teaspoon
- Paprika, 1/4 teaspoon
Directions
- Place the peeled cubed potatoes in a large sauce pan.
- Cover the potatoes with water
- Boil until the potatoes are fork tender
- Mash the potatoes in the sauce pan (don’t over do it)
- In a separate large mixing bowl–beat the cream cheese, blue cheese, and cheddar cheese together.
- Now into the cheese mixture beat in the sour cream, garlic salt, and paprika.
- Make sure this mixture is smooth
- The oven should be preheated to 350F
- Stir the cheese mixture in with the mashed potatoes. Make sure it is blended well.
- If the potatoes seem a little stiff add milk. Just one tablespoon at a time. Do not add to much milk.
- Now spoon the mashed potatoes into a 13×9 baking dish
- Sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top of the potatoes
- You are going to bake for 35-40 minutes uncovered
- The mashed potato casserole is done when the potatoes are hot and top is lightly browned.
This Mashed Potato Casserole Recipe makes a great side dish recipe for everyone in the family, including the one or two vegetarians that demand a vegetarian recipe. Vegetarian casserole recipes and vegetarian casseroles are very popular because they taste so good. You have just made a quick, simple, easy, fast, and delicious Mashed Potato Casserole.
We hope that you have enjoyed cooking and eating the Mashed Potato Casserole Dish. It sure is a quick, easy, simple, fast, and healthy comfort food. This side dish recipe makes great leftovers. As an added bonus it is also a make ahead recipe.
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There are certain foods that kids love: Hot dogs, Mac and Cheese, Hamburgers, and Mashed Potatoes. Wait a second….Why mashed potatoes? It is not too difficult if you think about it from a kid’s perspective. First and foremost you can call them smash or smashed potatoes. What kid wouldn’t jump on that like white on rice? And of course they are easy to play with on the plate. Anybody with an imagination a fork and a good portion of mashed potatoes could make a sculpture. And the fact that you could pour gravy in the middle of a mashed potato volcano is just about irresistible…especially if it decides to blow.
I think the mashed potato is so kid friendly that it sticks with us througout our entire life. Sure we try and make it into adult food. We call it garlic mashed potatoes or a mashed potato casserole, so adult sounding. But the kid in us really knows that the best mashed potatoes are loaded with cheese. Of course anything loaded with cheese will get your kids attention.
A good mashed potato recipe is easy to incorporate into a mashed potato casserole. When you stop and think about it, to make mashed potatoes is 90% the same as making a large mashed potato casserole. The only difference is popping it in the oven.
The best mashed potatoes also make for the best leftovers. Have you ever noticed how all comfort foods make for great leftovers? I think is because we tend to make comfort foods from scratch. We use homemade recipes to make homemade food. All homemade food just seems to taste just as good if not better the next day. With the advent of the microwave oven, heating up the mashed potato casserole will make you into a quick gourmet chef.
Potatoes are typically served as a side dish in most restaurants. Probably because potatoes are inexpensive. Which of course makes potato recipes very attractive to the bottom line. Side dish recipes need to taste good as well as be cost effective. Easy side dish recipes like the mashed potato casserole serves both purpose. A easy casserole recipe will be quick to make and have the added advantage of being a “make ahead” recipe.
One thing you should keep in mind as your cooking mashed potato recipes is that they can all easily be vegetarian casseroles. Yes, vegetarian casserole recipes are easy to make with potatoes. When you cook the casserole just remember not to add any meat products and viola!! You have yourself vegetarian recipe.
I tried to become a vegetarian once. It didn’t work out. I like bacon with my potatoes….and just about everything else. But vegetarians and vegans are good people. Just don’t offer to buy them a Value Meal at McDonald’s or Burger King. I guess they can have the salad. But no french fries.
What do you think of instant potatoes? I don’t like them. The large potato growers and processors have made big strides with instant potatoes, but they still don’t taste as good as homemade. I had a friend who tried to convince me that the Potatoes Au Gratin that comes out of a box is as good as a homemade potatoes au gratin recipe. But I’m not buying it. Besides you can’t buy sweet potato au gratin in a box…can you???
I do make a very good tasting pepper casserole with mashed potatoes. There is no end to the combinations you can make in the oven.
If you are on a low carb diet, like the South Beach Diet or the Atkins diet you can substitute cauliflower for potatoes. I’m not going to get into that right now, but just be aware that people do that. That’s right…they make cauliflower mashed potatoes.
I never seriously though about becoming a chef or a full time cook. Even though I enjoy cooking I don’t have any desire to spend all of my time in the kitchen. Cooking school was not one of my dreams. Although I do watch the pros on The Food Network. They are always using kitchen gadgets in ways I never thought of. But in all honesty, Rachel Ray and Paula Deen can be the stars. I just want to be able to whip up quick dinner recipes.
Remember: When Cooking a Mashed Potato Casserole Recipe have fun. Enjoy yourself! The potato recipe is nutritious because the potato is filled with nutrition — vitamins and minerals.
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Sounds really good actually, although that’s a lot of different cheeses.
A couple of tablespoons of chives or green onion would probably add a nice accent to this as well. Thanks!
Hey Frugal…liked your post on not scrimping when it comes to knives!!!
Your right…there are a whole lot of different cheeses on this mashed potato casserole. Four different types to be exact. I like a cheesy potato casserole.
While this casserole recipe calls for cheese, other recipes on this site do very well without the cheese. What I was really going for was an easy homemade casserole that people could make enjoy with any meal–even a holiday meal.
The chives and green onions that you mentioned really would be a good and tasty addition. In some weird way it would also make this a more healthy recipe. Is that possible with all that cheese?
has anyone that has actually made this have an opinion? thinking of taking this to a cook out this weekend, and need to put it together the night before
Thank you for this recipe!