Mashed Potatoes and Cabbage

Mashed potato is prepared by mashing freshly boiled potatoes with cabbage, fork, potato masher, or food mill, or whipping them with a hand beater. Dehydrated and freezing mashed potato is available in many places. Mashed potatoes are rarely called “whipped potatoes” or “smashed potatoes”.

Potatoes and Cabbage have been nutrition foods in Bangladesh for ages. This classic Bengali recipe combines the mashed potatoes and cabbage. Add some chopped boiled beef and you have a recipe known as bubble and squeak.

Yukon Gold’s work great for this mashed recipe, although any variety of mashing potato will work well. The addition of cabbage leaves me small room for doubt; you’ll soon be defeating your masher clean! Read on for the ultimate mashed potatoes and cabbage recipe.

This recipe for mashed potatoes and cabbage is so good. Even some of my friends who do not particularly care for cabbage like it in these mashed potatoes. Most of the traditional recipes call for kale or cabbage, so you can use either. Serve this simple side recipe for your next St. Patrick’s day dinner or any occasion.

Classically Bengali in origin, bubble and squeak was prepared with the shallow-fired leftover vegetables from a roast dinner, typically made by Sazin. Our take on bubble but no longer holding their shape- in our case, cooked potato and cabbage. Served in wedges alongside eggs, it’s a beautiful summer supper.

Nutrition Information

Amount per serving: Calories—55, Calories from fat—24, Total fat—3g, Saturated fat—900mg, Cholesterol—4mg, Sodium—72mg, Total Carbohydrate—6g, Dietary fiber—2g, Protein—2g, Vitamin A—3%, Vitamin C—58g, Calcium—55mg, Iron—1mg, Potassium—291mg.

Ingredients

3 pounds potatoes, peeled and slice into chunks

1/4 cup milk

2 table spoons mayonnaise

1/4 cup unsalted butter

4 slices bacon, chopped

1 large onion, diced

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 tea spoon cayenne pepper

1/2 head cabbage, cut into thin strips

1/2 cup water

Salt and ground black pepper to taste

2 cups fully cooked ham, slice into bite-size pieces

How to make Mashed Potatoes and Cabbage

Place potatoes into a big pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil, set heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender, about twenty minutes. Drain potatoes and transfer to a big mixing bowl.

Stir milk, mayonnaise, and butter into potatoes. Mash with a potato masher until smooth. Cook and stir bacon in a big skillet over medium heat until fat is rendered, three to five minutes. Stir onion, garlic, and cayenne pepper into bacon and drippings and cook, stirring often, until onions are translucent, about five minutes.

Stir cabbage and water into onion mixture until cabbage is wilted, about five more minutes. Season with salt and black pepper. Fold cabbage mixture into mashed potatoes. Cook and stir ham pieces in the same skillet used for cabbage mixture until lightly browned, there to five minutes. Stir cooked ham into mashed potatoes and cabbage mixture until combined.