Can you freeze HM mashed potato?

sillyvixen

I have never thought of freezing mash on its own, but have used frozen on top of veggie cottage pie dishes.I will give frozen mash a try next time I have potatoes that need using up.

melanzana

Oh and for Christmas preppers. You do know you can parboil your spuds for roasting and then open freeze and bag up?

I knew you did!

I just roll the barboiled in a bit of goose fat, not too much though, and freeze, and then straight in to the oven on the day with a bit more. Can never have too much goose fat IMO!

Just shake the spuds and leave for a bit to cool before putting the goose fat on. and if you are a worrier, the parboiled spuds can look a little grey. Yikes! but they lose all that when being roasted.

Just might help with the Christmas prep!

Eenymeeny

I'm afraid I am the lazy one. I find it a lot easier to buy a portion of mashed potatoes from Morrisons for about a pound and stick it in the freezer until needed. It takes about 5 mins in the microwave from frozen, resting it and stirring it in between. So I think that home frozen would be the same.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

boil a good sized pot of potatoes with carrot, parsnip, turnip/swede, sweet potato, any root vegetable of choice.

Mash, add mustard or horseradish to jazz it up a bit, portion and freeze.

Lot cheaper than paying £1 a tray in supermarket.

Pollycat

I do pig pans of mash, I often have 2 on the go at the same time.
Then I mash and freeze in containers for 2 people.

I add a small amount of butter or olive spread, then when I get some out i can add extra.
I use less butter/spread when I'm doing a pie topping to when I'm doing mash with, say, bangers.

At Christmas I do this as we like just a taste of mash on Christmas Day as ther's so much other stuff to eat.

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

I use an ice cream scoop to open freeze on an oven tray or similar then bag up in freezer bags . Just take out as many as needed .
polly

Pollycat

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

boil a good sized pot of potatoes with carrot, parsnip, turnip/swede, sweet potato, any root vegetable of choice.

Mash, add mustard or horseradish to jazz it up a bit, portion and freeze.

Lot cheaper than paying £1 a tray in supermarket.

I do this but don't mix with potato before freezing as I find carrot and swede quite watery when it's been frozen & thawed and like to squeeze it out before combining with the potato.

Makes a fab topping to a shepherds pie though, especially pork, chicken or turkey.

alexandrajj

Thank you so much everyone!

you've answered my query with so many alternative ways of freezing it. I'm going to now give it a try.

thanks again everyone