Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes

Name: Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 pounds, Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks; , Table salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter (melted and cooled); 2/3 cup, buttermilk, at room temperature; , Ground black pepper

Side Dishes
Potatoes
Vegetarian
Holiday
Thanksgiving

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2005, America's Test Kitchen TV

Replacing the butter and cream with buttermilk doesn't work. (Unless you like curdled, parched spuds.) So what's the secret to tangy, creamy mashed potatoes?

SERVES 4

TIME 55 minutes

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