Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes {vegan, pressure cooker option}

Are you looking for a vegan mashed potato recipe? These roasted garlic mashed potatoes are your easy incredibly delicious answer! Simply roast whole garlic cloves until they’re creamy soft inside, and mash them into smooth fluffy starchy potatoes—guaranteed goodness right off the stove.

Buttery sweet roasted garlic has no sharp raw garlic bite. Because the garlic mellows in the roasting, the garlic flavor is mellow too. An entire bulb of garlic goes into these roasted garlic mashed potatoes. You’d never no it. And if you roast two bulbs of garlic, your potatoes will have an even deeper mellow garlic flavor.

How do you make super-moist potatoes vegan and dairy free?

• Use olive oil and pure coconut milk. Coconut milk?!!  The mild coconut flavor vanishes into the garlic, salt and olive oil,  and no one can guess the secret ingredient. Creamy dreamy and vegan!

Can you cook potatoes for mashed potatoes in the pressure cooker?

• Yes! My Mom always cooked her potatoes in the pressure cooker. I include directions for Instant Pot pressure cooker roasted garlic mashed potatoes in the recipe instructions.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes recipe tips and tricks:

• Yukon gold and russet potatoes have low moisture and high starch content—both make excellent mashed potatoes.  Roasted garlic mashed Yukon golds have a pretty pale yellow color.
• An old-fashioned hand-held potato masher whips up the fluffiest potatoes. A food processor whips them too much—makes them gummy. My in-laws beat their potatoes with a portable mixer—a good method if you don’t overdo it.
• The creamy white liquid we stir into Thai curry dishes is the exact same pure coconut milk we mash into these potatoes. Lite coconut milk is fine here. Don’t mistakenly use the Coco Lopez coconut milk with sugar, that’s for pina coladas. Coconut water has no fat, and is not a good substitute.
• Freeze the potato skins for later, to make homemade vegetable broth. The potato boiling water is excellent soup base—save that too.
• If you don’t want to take the time to roast the garlic, just steam them along with the potatoes, as in this Vegan Shepherd’s Pie recipe.

This salad with pears, blue cheese, and pecans always gets rave reviews at our Thanksgiving table.

Thanksgiving is the day we set aside to give thanks for life’s blessings. Maybe you celebrate with family, or friends, or by donating your time in a soup kitchen. If you’re in charge of a side dish—make these roasted garlic mashed potatoes. If there is a vegetarian at your table, they’ll welcome the gesture.

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5 from 2 votes

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Roast whole garlic cloves ahead of time and heat them again so they’re soft enough to incorporate into the potatoes.

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time45 mins

Total Time1 hr

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Vegan, Vegetarian

Keyword: mashed potatoes, Thanksgiving side dish recipe, roasted garlic

Servings: 6 servings.

Author: Letty | @lettyskitchen

Ingredients

• 8 cloves garlic one whole bulb
• 1 teaspoon plus 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 pounds Yukon gold or russet potatoes , peeled, cut in quarters
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup pure coconut milk , warmed

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Separate the garlic bulb cloves, removing the outer papery skins. Put them in a small oiled baking dish, or on a sheet of foil large enough to fold over itself and the garlic. Drizzle with the first teaspoon of olive oil. Add a couple of tablespoons of water. Cover tightly or fold the foil over and crimp the edges.
• Bake for about 45 minutes, until the garlic is completely soft inside.

For Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker Mashed Potatoes:

• Place the potatoes in a steamer basket in the cooking pot. Add 1 cup of water. Lock the lid in place with the vent in the sealed position. Use the manual setting and set a 7 minute cooking time. Carefully turn the vent for quick release. When the valve drops, remove the lid.
• Remove from steamer, reserving cooking water. Mash with a potato masher. Slip the soft garlic from the skins and mash into the potatoes. Gradually beat in the warm coconut milk, mashing well, until the potatoes are smooth, light and moist. Season with salt and plenty of freshly ground pepper. Taste, adding more salt if you think it’s needed. Garnish with sliced green onions.

For Stovetop-cooked Mashed Potatoes:

• Put the quartered potatoes in a large saucepan. Cover with cold water, sprinkling in a teaspoon of kosher salt. Bring to a boil and simmer until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork, 20 to 35 minutes, depending on size.
• Drain the potatoes, saving the potato water for another use—like soup stock.  Mash with a potato masher. Slip the soft garlic from the skins and mash into the potatoes. Gradually beat in the warm coconut milk, mashing well, until the potatoes are smooth, light and moist.
• Season with the salt and plenty of freshly ground pepper. Garnish with sliced green onions. Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Calories: 192kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Sodium: 796mg | Potassium: 745mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin C: 19.6mg | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 5.6mg

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** This recipe is an update of the roasted garlic mashed potatoes I posted in October 2010, on my old muffintalk.wordpress.com blog. No photos back then.