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September
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Paleo Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Posted on September 29, 2012 by admin

Paleo recipes are simple, delicious and healthy. In fact, Paleo diet is very healthy. Paleo recipes involve limited ingredients and are simple to prepare.

You can make various Paleo recipes for your Paleo diet to stay in the best of shape. However, here we will discuss about Paleo mashed sweet potatoes recipe.

Ingredients required for Paleo mashed sweet potatoes recipe are as follows:

  • A couple of sweet potatoes

Half sized onion in rough and medium chopped form

  • Two to four twigs of rosemary

  • Dry basil

  • Paleo mayo

  • Pepper and salt

  • Butter or coconut oil

Cooking steps for Paleo Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe:

First, fill a large sized pot with water, keep it on the stove, and then wash the sweet potatoes. Next, you need to chop the potatoes in suitable cube sizes usually of inch size. You can keep the skin or remove it, as it depends on your preferences. Next, cut the onion and put in the pot, now add rosemary twigs. After this, cover the pot, but not fully to allow the steam to escape. You will come to know that the potatoes are fully cooked when they turn soft and easy to slice.

Take out rosemary twigs and here, you might have only the stem of the twigs and this is a good sign. Now drain the potatoes fully, but make sure that you do not loose the onions, as they are yummy factor of Paleo mashed sweet potatoes recipe.

Next, add some tablespoons of butter, a bit of basil, pepper, salt and a spoon of mayo. Now, mash the entire mixture with your handy masher. However, if you prefer creamy potatoes, then you might need the electronic masher. While doing this, you ought to put the entire thing in a separate bowl. Keep tasting it in between and add whatever you feel is required from the ingredients list.

You are all done now! It’s quite easy, isn’t it? The rosemary twigs are good for flavor here and if you love them, then you can add more twigs of rosemary while you boil the potatoes or else, you may add fresh twigs in your potatoes after mashing them to give that added flavor for your Paleo mashed sweet potatoes.

You can even add pepper and salt in the end if you feel to adjust the flavor of Paleo mashed sweet potatoes.

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September
19
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Posted on September 19, 2012 by admin

Mashed sweet potatoes make the best to accompany with traditional holiday recipes such as chicken or roasted turkey. You can use a bit of cinnamon in the mashed sweet potatoes recipe to give it a warm and festive touch. In addition, you also can add a pinch of cloves or ground nutmeg to add some spice to the recipe. However, you ought to ensure that you add both of them in limit and avoid using them in excess. Next, also keep in mind that you do not require marshmallows for the mashed sweet potatoes recipe. Thus, avoid using marshmallows completely here. In short, the natural and sweet aroma of sweet potatoes, compound spice notes as well as the creamy and rich oiliness is all that is required for the mashed sweet potatoes recipe.

The preparation time for the recipe is around five minutes and the coking time is of fifteen minutes. Thus, the total time to prepare the mashed sweet potatoes recipe is twenty minutes.

Ingredients required for mashed sweet potatoes recipe are as follows:

  • First, you need to get around six medium sized sweet potatoes

  • Half stick butter

  • Half cup cream

  • Half teaspoon of ground cinnamon

  • Kosher salt for taste and flavor

  • Pinch of ground nutmeg or cloves

After having all these ingredients, you are set to prepare mashed sweet potatoes.

Preparation of the mashed sweet potatoes recipe:

Take a big sized pot and fill salted water in it. Here, make sure that the water tastes just like seawater. In fact, it is has to be salty. Now, heat the pot at a medium level.

Next, you ought to peel all the sweet potatoes and slice them into half. After this, cut every half piece into quarters. Here, see to it that every sweet potato you cut must end up into eight pieces.

After the water starts to boil, you need to add all the pieces of sliced sweet potatoes into the pot and lower the heat to simmer or low temperature. Keep it for around fifteen minutes or heat it until the pieces of sweet potatoes are sliceable easily with knife.

Next, drain all the pieces of sweet potatoes and return to your pot. Now, add spices, cream, butter and start mashing the potatoes lightly with the help of a potato masher.

Finally, adjust the flavoring with kosher salt and your mashed sweet potatoes are all ready to serve. You can make six to eight servings.

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September
10
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Healthy Sour Cream

Posted on September 10, 2012 by admin

Mashed sweet potatoes with healthy sour cream are a great recipe. What more, you have choices to make the recipe as per your preferences and liking. Here, you will find a few mashed sweet potatoes healthy sour cream recipes, which are highly popular and preferred.

Recipe 1:

Ingredients required for the first recipe are as follows:

  • A dozen of large sized sweet potatoes (peel and slice them in chunks)

A cup of sour cream

  • One fourth cup of brown sugar

  • One fourth cup of maple syrup

  • One fourth cup of sugary flavored whipping cream

  • One fourth of liquefied butter

  • Half teaspoon of pepper and salt or chicken base for taste

Preparation Tips:

Boil the sweet potatoes until they turn tender in a large pan. After boiling the potatoes, mash them with the help of an electric masher and then add butter and sweet cream into it.

Now, fold in the sour cream, maple syrup and brown sugar by making use of a large food turner. Next, add pepper and salt or chicken base for taste.

The recipe is ready to serve now. This recipe pairs greatly with vanilla and bourbon marinated pork meat with pecan gravy.

Recipe 2: Brown sugar-sweetened mashed sweet potatoes with sour cream

Ingredients required are:

  • Four large sized sweet potatoes (diced and peeled)

  • Water

  • One cup of non-dairy vegetarian sour cream

  • Three tablespoons of margarine

  • One fourth cup of sliced nuts (almonds, walnuts or pecans)

  • Two tablespoons of brown sugar

Preparation Tips:

Boil sweet potatoes for around 10 to 12 minutes. Next, drain the potatoes well. Now with the help of an electric masher, mash the potatoes until they turn smooth and tender. Now add margarine and sour cream and mash again until it turns fluffy.

Transfer the mixture in a serving bowl and then add brown sugar and chopped nuts before serving. You can enjoy this recipe for Christmas, Thanksgiving or any other joyful event.

Recipe 3: Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Nutmeg and Sour Cream

Ingredients required for this recipe are:

  • Four medium sized sweet potatoes

  • One tablespoon of canola oil

  • Half tablespoon of salt

  • One fourth tablespoon of white pepper

  • One fourth tablespoon of nutmeg

  • Four tablespoon of sour cream (preferably fat)

Directions:

First, preheat the oven at 350 degrees F. Now, rub the potatoes with oil, put them into an oven compatible dish, and bake the potatoes until they turn smooth.

After cooking the potatoes, keep it aside for around 10 minutes for cooling off. After this, slice the potatoes in half sizes and squeeze or compress potato pulp or mash into three-quart pot. Now, set the stove at medium low and mash it gently until the mixture turns smooth with the help of a masher.

Now add sour cream, nutmeg, butter, pepper and fold to mix them thoroughly. Remove the pot from the stove and serve instantly.

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August
29
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Healthy Mashed Sweet Potatoes Banana

Posted on August 29, 2012 by admin

A healthy mashed sweet potato with banana is a great combination and is easy as well as quick to prepare.

Recipe 1: Mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar and banana

Ingredients required are as follows:

  • Eight potatoes (sweet)

  • Three tbsp of kosher salt

  • One banana

Eight tbsp unsalted butter

Two cups of cream

  • One cinnamon stick

  • One fourth cup of lite brown sugar

  • One tbsp of black pepper

Preparation tips:

Wash the potatoes, poke holes in them with the help of fork, and rub them with one tbsp salt and drape them in aluminum foil.

Place it stove and cook for around twenty minutes or until it becomes tender. In the meantime, cook banana in peel form until it turns black for around 15 minutes.

Now, carefully take out the potatoes from foil and scoop out all the flesh from skin in a large sized bowl. Cover it with foil. Next, scoop out the flesh from the banana in another bowl.

Raise the heating temperature now

After this, take a baking dish or roasting pan having high sides that are capable to take flames directly. Heat it for around five minutes.

Now add butter and allow it to melt. Add cream, potatoes, banana, brown sugar, cinnamon stick, one tbsp pepper and salt. Now with the help of a potato masher, gently mash the potatoes as well as banana and keep stirring to blend.

Recipe 2: Whipped sweet potatoes with banana and honey

Ingredients required are:

  • Five medium sized sweet potatoes in scrubbed form

  • Four bananas unpeeled

  • One cup of non-salted butter

  • One fourth cup of honey

  • Kosher salt

  • Half cup brown sugar

  • One and half cup of chopped pecans

Directions to Cook:

Firstly, preheat your oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Poke holes on potatoes with the help of fork and transfer them into roasting pan for around half an hour. Now toss the banana in the pan and keep roasting for around ten to fifteen minutes until both potatoes as well as banana turn soft and tender. Now, remove the roasting pan from oven and keep the oven on.

Cool the potatoes for a while and after this, scoop the flesh in a bowl. Now, peel banana and add in the bowl with one stick of butter as well as honey. Season it with salt and mash it with wooden spoon until it combines well and becomes fluffy. Transfer it into some ovenproof bowl.

Now in a different bowl, rub the butter stick with your fingers, pecans, flour and brown sugar until it turns coarse crumbs. Now sprinkle this mixture on sweet potatoes, now turn to the oven, and cook for around twenty minutes until the crumbs turn golden in color. Serve it hot and enjoy.

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August
20
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Brown Sugar Recipe

Posted on August 20, 2012 by admin

Mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar recipe contain eight ingredients and it will take around 1 hour and 55 minutes for preparation. With this quantity, you can serve to one person. This dish is to be served as a side dish.

Ingredients needed for preparation of mashed sweet potatoes and brown sugar sauce:

  1. Three sweet potatoes (large)

  2. One-fourth cup of butter

  3. One-fourth cup of brown sugar (packed)

  4. Two teaspoons of milk

  5. One teaspoon of corn syrup

  6. Half teaspoon of ground cinnamon

  7. One-fourth cup of warmed whipping cream

  8. Three-fourth teaspoon of salt

Step by step preparation:

  1. Preheat oven at 350°F.

  2. Now prick your nutritious sweet potatoes with fork all over it.

  3. Than take a cookie sheet having sides and place the sweet potatoes on it.

  4. Place the above sheet in the oven and bake it for one hour fifteen minutes to one hour thirty minutes

  5. Check if the sweet potatoes have become tender when pricked with a fork.

  6. After you are done with baking of sweet potatoes keep it aside so that it cools down and becomes easy to handle

  7. Meanwhile, take a saucepan of one-quart and place it on gas at a medium heat.

  8. Put butter in the saucepan after a while add brown sugar and mix well

  9. Now add milk, cinnamon, and corn syrup.

  10. Keep stirring continuously and bring it to boil.

  11. When it comes to boil stir for one minute or stir until this mixture becomes slightly thick.

  12. Now remove it from heat and keep it warm.

  13. Back to your baked sweet potatoes peel them off.

  14. Now take a large bowl and place the baked sweet potatoes in it.

  15. Mash sweet potatoes without leaving lumps.

  16. Now add salt and cream to it and mash nicely until it becomes smooth.

  17. Take a large serving bowl and spoon mashed potatoes in it.

  18. Serve with thick sauce of brown sugar.

Some expert tips:

  • You can add toasted pecans toppings to make it extra delicious.

  • You can even hold your mashed sweet potatoes on setting of low heat slow cooker for around two hours.

  • Your brown sugar sauce can be heated again just before serving.

  • If you face the problem of gritty brown sugar sauce you can simply add one or two tablespoon of whipping cream

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August
10
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Healthy Mashed Sweet Potatoes Yogurt

Posted on August 10, 2012 by admin

Sweet potatoes have amazing contribution of healthy vitamins like B6, C and E.

It also has a good amount of beta-carotene that is vitamin A and a great source of manganese.

Below are some recipes of sweet potatoes that will help you to consume these nutrients in a tasty way:

Recipe 1:

Smashed Potatoes with Greek yogurt and caramelized onion

Ingredients:

Two lbs red or purple or Yukon gold potatoes (which ever you have)

One 6oz container Greek yogurt plain of FAGE total 0%.

Half cup of skim milk

Two yellow onions of medium size, sliced

Two tbsp of olive oil

One tbsp of sea salt

Two tbsp of black pepper

Steps to make your yummy Smashed Potatoes with Greek yogurt and caramelized onion:

  1. In a frying pan put olive oil and than add sliced onion. Cook these sliced onions for 20 to 25 minutes on a medium low heat. You are done with the onions when it get caramelized

  2. Now wash your sweet potatoes and cut them into 1-2” pieces

  3. Than add these chunks of sweet potatoes into 2 quarts that is ½ gallon of cold water and heat it until it boils.

  4. A hint for you: heat sweet potatoes say for around 8 to 10 minutes until your fork tender.

  5. After the sweet potatoes are boiled, drain them and return to your pot.

  6. Now add milk to your sweet potatoes and start to mash them.

  7. After you are done with mashing of sweet potatoes add yogurt.

  8. Then season the mixture of potatoes, milk and yogurt with pepper and salt.

  9. After adding pepper and salt, continue smashing this mixture until it turns to your required level of softness.

  10. Add those caramelized onion.

  11. Your yummy and healthy sweet potatoes are ready and it is time to serve.

Recipe 2:

Mashed sweet potatoes with low fat yogurt:

Ingredients:

Four potatoes

1/4th cup of plain yogurt

1/4th finely minced onion

1 tsp of dried and finely chopped fresh parsley

Pepper

Salt for taste

Steps:

  1. Put potatoes in water and boil it until it tenders.
  2. Now finely mince onions
  3. Peel potatoes when hot
  4. Than mash potatoes with fork or ricer
  5. Leave mashed potato to cool for a while
  6. Add pepper and salt to potato
  7. Then add onion, yogurt and parsley.
  8. Serve.
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August
10
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Brown Sugar Pecans

Posted on August 10, 2012 by admin

Sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecans sound interesting and delicious. You are already aware of benefits of having sweet potato and adding brown sugar and pecan will make it yummier for your tummy. Below is the recipe so lets get started.

Ingredients you need to make mashed sweet potatoes brown sugar pecans:

  1. One-cup brown sugar (golden)

  2. Half-cup pecans, chopped (say about two ounces)

  3. One-fourth cup chilled butter (cut the butter into pieces of ¼”)

  4. Five pounds sweet potato, red-skinned, peeled and cut into pieces of one and a half inches

  5. Four eggs large

  6. Three tablespoons maple syrup (pure)

  7. Two tablespoons of vanilla extract

  8. One tablespoon of lemon juice (fresh)

  9. Two teaspoons of salt

Steps to prepare mashed sweet potatoes brown sugar pecans:

  1. First, you need to preheat your oven at 350°F.

  2. Now take a small bowl, put sugar in it, and add butter and pecans to it. Mix well.

  3. Than cover, the bowl and keep it in refrigerator to chill until it is ready make use of it.

  4. Tip: you can make this mixture two days prior and refrigerate it.

  5. Take a baking glass dish and apply a butter coat to it.

  6. Take a pot of salted water, add sweet potatoes in it, and bring it to boil.

  7. Check if the sweet potatoes have become tender after you cook it for at around 12 minutes.

  8. Now drain sweet potatoes and let it stand in strainer for around 10 to 15 minutes.

  9. Put boiled sweet potatoes in a processor and make a nice purée

  10. Take a large bowl put two eggs in it and beat it lightly than add vanilla, syrup and lemon juice to it and than beat it nicely.

  11. Now add salt in the above mixture of eggs.

  12. Once you are done with beating of eggs mixture than add sweet potato purée in it and mix well.

  13. Transfer the sweet potato mixture into the baking glass dish on which you had applied butter coating.

  14. Level the mixture.

  15. Now sprinkle evenly pecan topping over the sweet potato mixture.

  16. Keep the baking dish in the preheated oven and bake it until the mixture is completely set and the pecan topping bubbles, bake for around one hour.

  17. After you remove the dish from the oven let it stay as it is for around 15 to 20 minutes.

  18. The dish is ready to serve.

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August
10
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Brown Sugar Topping

Posted on August 10, 2012 by admin

Recipe 1:

Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Brulee

Sweet potato dish is a common and a must for occasions like Thanksgiving Day and best serving dish on holiday table. This dish of mashed potatoes with nutmeg and cinnamon, caramelized crust brown sugar topping tastes simply delightful.

Ingredients you will need:

  1. Five and a half lbs sweet potatoes, boiled and peeled

  2. Three-fourth cup of 1% milk

  3. Three tbsp of softened light butter

  4. Half tsp of salt

  5. One-fourth tsp of ground cinnamon

  6. One-eight teaspoon of ground nutmeg

  7. Half cup of unpacked brown sugar (light)

Direction of cooking:

  1. Boil the sweet potatoes until it becomes soft.

  2. Peel the sweet potatoes and mix with light butter, milk and salt

  3. Mix the above mixture gently

  4. Now add nutmeg and cinnamon and mash the complete mixture

  5. You can also puree the mixture until its texture becomes smooth.

  6. Now take a baking dish of 11 x 7 or 9 x 9 inches.

  7. Put the mixture of sweet potatoes in the baking dish.

  8. Now preheat your broiler

  9. Sprinkle half cup of brown sugar over top of the sweet potato mixture in baking dish.

  10. Place the dish in the broiler for two minutes or until the brown sugar melts

  11. Be careful while you place the sweet potato mixture in the boiler that it does not burn. Therefore, keep checking.

  12. After you remove the baking dish from the boiler, keep it aside until the melted brown sugar harden for around 5 minutes.

  13. You can make seven cups.

Some tips:

  • You can prepare the dish a day prior to the actual day, you want to eat and reheat prior topping with brown sugar and before broiling.

  • Make sure you serve immediately after broiling the sweet potatoes.

  • In case, if you are thinking to take your master chief dish to someone else house than do not add sugar topping before you are ready to serve.

Recipe 2:

Sweet Potato Pecan with Topping Casserole

Ingredients:

Three cups of boiled sweet potatoes and mashed

One cup of brown sugar

Two eggs

One tsp. vanilla

Half cup of butter

Half cup of milk

Mix all these ingredients well and transfer into buttered casserole.

TOPPING:

Half cup of brown sugar

One cup pecans, chopped

One-third cup of flour

One-third cup of butter

Nutmeg and Cinnamon (optional)

Mix all the ingredient mentioned above and sprinkle over the sweet potato. Bake for 30 minutes at 300 degree.

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August
10
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Brown Sugar Butter

Posted on August 10, 2012 by admin

Below are two recipes that include the combination of sweet potatoes and butter:

Recipe 1:

Sweet Potato Cups with Butter and Brown Sugar:

Sweet Potato Cups with Butter and Brown Sugar is perfect for Thanksgiving Day and is so tempting that you just want to have it everyday. This contains butter and brown sugar that makes your mashed potatoes taste even more yummy and it fluffy texture of sweet meringue simply take the taste of this to next level. Therefore, let get started with the ingredients:

  1. Three sweet potatoes (large)

  2. Half cup of brown sugar

  3. Half stick of butter

  4. Two to three egg whites (the quantity depends on the amount of meringue you need)

  5. Half cup of white sugar

Procedure:

Take a large pot, put sweet potatoes in it with water, and boil for around 20 to 30 minutes.

To check if the sweet potatoes are boiled properly use fork and see if it pierces easily.

After sweet potatoes are boiled properly remove it from the pot and than peel off the skin.

Now slice the sweet potatoes into small pieces and puree with a sweet potato masher.

Next, add butter and mix gently.

Than add brown sugar

Take an electric blender and beat the mixture at medium speed until it gets nicely combined and turns smooth.

Wash your electric blender

Now in a separate bowl put egg whites in it.

Whip egg whites at a high speed and during the procedure add white sugar. Add sugar only one teaspoon at a time.

When soft white color peaks are formed, stop your blender.

Take ramekins, place mashed potatoes into it, and cover the top with meringue topping.

Bake these potatoes in oven for ten minutes at 400 degrees.

When the meringue on the top turns into brown color the Sweet Potato Cups with Butter and Brown Sugar are ready

Serve.

Recipe 2:

Sweet Potatoes Glazed in Skillet:

This dish is very simple you just have to cook sweet potatoes in skillet with butter and brown sugar including other seasonings.

Ingredients:

Half cup of brown sugar

One-third cup of water

One tablespoon of butter

One-fourth teaspoon of salt

Three sweet potatoes of medium size cooked, peeled off and sliced.

Method:

Take a heavy skillet

Put brown sugar, salt, butter, and water and mix well

Simmer for five minutes and keep turning them frequently.

Serve four.

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August
10
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Vegan Recipe

Posted on August 10, 2012 by admin

You can try many vegan recipes of mashed sweet potatoes with different combination/ingredients. Below are some vegan recipes that are easy to make and taste simply delightful

Recipe 1:

Mashed Sweet Potatoes Vegan Garlic:

Ingredients:

  • One floury potato (medium size), peeled and slice into one to two inch chunks

  • One sweet potato

  • Two to three garlic cloves, smashed after peeling

  • Three tbsp of olive oil

  • One-fourth tsp of salt

  • Nondairy milk

  • Grated fresh black pepper

Direction to prepare mashed sweet potatoes vegan garlic:

  1. Take a saucepan and fill it with water

  2. Now add sweet potatoes and the potatoes in the saucepan, boil and simmer until both the potatoes become tender

  3. Meanwhile, on low heat place a small saucepan

  4. Put oil in saucepan and add smashed garlic. Leave it to cook for around ten to twelve minutes to impart

  5. Note: While you have put the garlic on saucepan, make sure that it does not change its color. Therefore, keep the temperature low.

  6. Now back to potatoes, check with knife whether it is cooked or not.

  7. Drain water

  8. Take a medium bowl, put potatoes in it, and smash

  9. Add nondairy milk and mix well.

  10. Now put this potato and milk mixture in the oil pan

  11. Add the smashed garlic

  12. Mash the entire ingredient well together

  13. Add pepper and salt and again mix well

  14. Tip: you can also sprinkle a small amount of sea salt on top

  15. Serve

Recipe 2:

Sweet Potatoes Vegan Whipped:

Sweet potatoes vegan whipped is made up of non-dairy ingredients. They are equally succulent and soft like dairy products. This sweet potatoes vegan whipped can be an apt dish for a Thanksgiving dinner. They are also suitable for any meal or when you are craving for sweet potatoes.

Ingredients:

  • Four peeled sweet potatoes cut into small pieces

  • One cup of sour cream (non-dairy)

  • Two tbsp of vegan margarine

  • Half tsp of salt

  • Half tsp of garlic powder (optional)

Method:

    1. Take a pot and put water in it

    2. Add sweet potatoes, cover it and simmer

    3. Check after 19 to 12 minutes if the potatoes have become soft

    4. Drain the water from the pot

    5. Now take a bowl and transfer the potatoes in it

    6. Take an electronic mixer and mix the potatoes until it turns creamy and soft

    7. Now add vegan margarine and sour cream (non-dairy)

    8. Again, beat all the ingredients together until it becomes fluffy

    9. Season it according to your taste.

    10. Serve

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