How to Make Mashed Baked Potato Casserole
Grand mama would not consider laying out a meal that didn’t have a tater in it, now would she? I’m telling the truth there. So that’s what we’re going to do but this one’s kind of an updated dish that grand mama may have done in her later years and I’ve got some frozen hash browns in the freezer and I’ve got a pot of furry hiatus laying right where I’m going to have to stand, I hope I don’t get her nose. Alright, I’ve got my boiling water and I’m just going to put this hash browns in the boiling water and I’m going to let them cook for about 5 minutes. And then over here in this bowl, I have some herb flavored instant potatoes. I’ve got butter; I’ve got softened cream cheese, sound delicious already, don’t they? I’ve got some Jack cheese and I’ve got some sour cream, I’ve got some garlic salt, potatoes are not good if they don’t have a salt in them so, you want to make sure you season those up good, and while I’m waiting on those to heat up, I’m going to take our casserole dish with a little softened butter, I’m just going to wipe our dish down with it. Alright, and I think those potatoes are ready now, I’m just going to tap those on our colander, cause we want to make sure that we turn out the water on at them. I’m going to turn them all back on. So I’ve turned this all back on, now what I’m going to do is throw these potatoes in there, and just let that water, just let them evaporate, that’ll help just absorb that water and pull that water out of it so it won’t get into our casserole. Alright, I’m going to dump our potatoes in there. Okay, now I’ve done all these ingredients mixed together, all we have to do now is add a liquid to our potato dish and I’m just going to use water and I’ll go measure up 2 cups, perfect, and I’m just going to stir that in; alright those looks really, really good now, see that Jack cheese kind of stringing in there and I’m just going to transfer these potatoes to our dish. Alright now I’m going to put this into the oven and I’m going to bake this for about 45 minutes, 350 pre-heated oven. Alright, we’re going in with this; alright let’s check on our mashed potato bake. Now, at this point, all we have to do is put our onion rings on top and you want to be real careful that these don’t burn so all it needs is about 5 more minutes. Mashed potatoes, I forgot all about them, oh but they’re alright, they’re alright, they’re fine. Oh that scared me; I just knew I had burned those onions after I told John not to do that.