Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe

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!

Using Yukon gold potatoes or baby red potatoes means there's 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. The 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

1. Scrub the potatoes and cut potatoes into three pieces
2. Add the potatoes to the pressure cooker, then add the stock.
3. Secure the lid. Press the steam setting and set the timer to 12 minutes.
4. While the potatoes are cooking mash together butter and flour.
5. When the timer goes off do a quick release, remove the potatoes, strain and save the liquid.
6. Mash the potatoes, seasoning with butter, salt and cream.
7. Return the liquid to the pressure cooker. Change setting to sauté.
8. When the liquid is boiling, quickly whisk in the butter/flour mixture.
9. 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

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.

If you are looking for quick and easy side dishes you can make in the pressure cooker here are 40+ recipes! You'll be sure to find a new favorite!

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• Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower - an updated version of the old classic.
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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?!!