Creamy delicious mashed potatoes with homemade gravy made in one pot? YES! If you love great taters but hate all the work and clean up, then this side dish is for you! Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe with Homemade Gravy is the easiest and most delicious way to make mashed potatoes ever!
Love a great baked potato? Try this recipe for Pressure Cooker Baked Potatoes next!
Why you'll love this recipe
If you're like me, you enjoy homemade meals during the spring and summer months, but try to avoid heating up the house at all costs, right?
✔️ Making this dish in the pressure cooker is a great time saver!
✔️ Yukon gold potatoes or baby red potatoes. Why? No need to peel the potatoes! Just give them hefty scrubbing and they are ready. My personal preference is Yukon gold potatoes because I like the creamy texture, but no reason to buy something special - use what you have on hand.
✔️ Using pre-made stock as the base for steaming, flavors the potatoes.
✔️ Chicken stock makes the gravy right in the pressure cooker!
Ingredients
- one box of chicken stock
- 1 ½ pounds Yukon Gold Potatoes
- cream or milk
- butter
- flour
Instructions
- Scrub and clean the potatoes well.
- Cut large potatoes into three pieces
- Add the potatoes to the pressure cooker.
- Add the stock
- Secure the lid. Press the steam setting and set the timer to 12 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking mash together butter and flour completely.
- When the timer goes off, remove the potatoes, strain and save the liquid.
- Mash the potatoes, seasoning with butter, cream
- Return the liquid to the pressure cooker. Change setting to sauté.
- When the liquid is boiling, quickly whisk in the butter/flour mixture. Whisk together until the liquid begins to thicken and continue cooking for about three minutes.
- Taste and adjust seasoning.
Done! The potatoes are creamy and delicious and using box stock makes a delicious gravy! Gotta love a simple meal!
FAQ's
1 ½ pounds of potatoes cook on steam in just 12 minutes! Then with a quick release you'll be ready to mash the potatoes as soon as it's ready to open.
Never fill the IP above the max fill line. If you're cooking liquids it should never be above two thirds full. This is for safety to ensure there is plenty of space to allow the pressure cooker to do
Tips
Ok... a couple of great hints when you're making mashed potatoes -
Don't over mash them, this will cause the potatoes to become gummy. Adding warmed milk/butter also help keep them from getting sticky too!
What if you get all the way to the end and your gravy has lumps, do you throw it out? Of course not! Just run it thru a sieve to remove the lumps OR tell everyone that's the way you like it! 😀
Hey life's too short to sweat the small details, right?
What to serve with
These mashed potatoes are delicious with my fall off-the-bone Barbecued Pork Ribs - also made in the Instant Pot and finished off on the grill! Or... if you want to break out your slow cooker serve up this Slow Cooker Roast Beef alongside... delicious!
I hope you enjoyed this recipe! I have a bunch more Instant Pot recipes on the blog that I'm sure you'll enjoy and you can check it out here - Deb's Pressure Cooker Recipes.
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Pressure Cooker Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds Yukon Gold Potatoes
- 4 cups stock
- 4 tbsp butter divided
- ¼ cup milk or cream
- 2 tablespoon flour
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Scrub and clean the potatoes well. Cut large potatoes into three pieces and add the potatoes to the pressure cooker.
- Add the stock. Secure the lid of the pressure cooker. Press the steam setting and set the timer to 12 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking mash together 2 tablespoon butter and 2 tablespoons flour. Make sure it's completely creamy - no lumps!
- When the timer goes off, remove the potatoes, strain and save the liquid.
- Warm the milk/cream and butter mixture slightly. Just enough to get the butter to melt and the dairy warmed up.
- Mash the potatoes, seasoning with butter and warmed cream. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Return the liquid to the pressure cooker. Change setting to sauté. When the liquid is boiling, quickly whisk in the butter/flour mixture. Whisk together until the liquid begins to thicken and continue cooking for about three minutes. Whisking frequently.
- Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- Tri Tip or Roast Beef would be delicious!
- Orange Marmalade Glazed Ham, mmm!!!
- Grilled Lamb Chops, yum!
- Grilled Mustard Pork Chops - so tender and tangy!
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Recipe backstory
I love how easy these are to make AND that the entire process doesn't heat up your house.
Living in Fresno with temperatures in the triple digits for weeks at a time, heating up the house is a real issue! These come together in a snap for a couple of reasons!
How easy is that?!!
Jennifer Stewart says
I love how you break down all the steps and being able to spoon creamy and delicious mashed potatoes in my mouth is such a short amount of time! I have an old school pressure cooker so I think I need to invest in a new-fangled electric one!
Bowl Me Over says
Hey, I thought I was the last pressure cooker hold out?!! 🙂 Seriously though, I love mine, I bet you will too!
michele says
I cant believe I can have real mashed potatoes in about 15 minutes... Pressure cooking is such a time saving method to use and with real food not all the processed ingredients too!
Bowl Me Over says
Exactly - I hope you give these a try Michele!
Michaela Kenkel says
Mashed potatoes are pure comfort food. I haven't tried to make them in my IP yet? That will chage this week!
Bowl Me Over says
You definitely need to use the IP for potatoes, you'll love them Michaela!!
Sandra Shaffer says
Having an Instant Pot has been one of the best investments! So simple to use and the food is delicious. Mashed potatoes are pure comfort food around here and now they'll take minutes to make, plus that delicious gravy sauce can be poured over dishes like meatloaf!
Bowl Me Over says
Mmmmm.....meatloaf! What a great idea - I need t make a meatloaf in the IP!!
Dan from Platter Talk says
Nice job with this Instant Pot standard. We use our Instant Pot weekly and will definitely be making these pressure cooker mashed potatoes soon! Thanks for another fantastic post.
Bowl Me Over says
Yes the IP is a game changer, I'm so glad you like this recipe Dan!
Liza says
Oh, I LOVE this recipe! I got a multi-cooker and I HAVE to make these potatoes! My boys love mashed potatoes and this recipe is so easy and time-savvy! LOVE IT!!!
Bowl Me Over says
Soooo yummy, the boys will love it and you'll love how easy it is to make!! Thanks Liza!!