Slow-Cooker Mashed Potatoes with Blue Cheese

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Slow-Cooker Mashed Potatoes with Blue Cheese

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Recipe Data

12
Servings
10min
Prep
4hr20min
Total

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Description

If the stove is full of other sides, make these easy slow-cooker mashed potatoes!

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Ingredients
Serves 12
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5 lbs. Yukon Gold potatoes, unpeeled and quartered
1 (32-oz.) container Hy-Vee vegetable stock
6 tbsp. Hy-Vee unsalted butter, cut up
4 clove(s) garlic, crushed
2 Hy-Vee dried bay leaves
1 (8-oz.) pkg. Hy-Vee plain cream cheese, softened
½ c. Hy-Vee whole milk, warmed
1 ½ tsp. Hy-Vee kosher salt
¼ tsp. Hy-Vee ground black pepper
1 (5-oz.) container Hy-Vee blue cheese crumbles
Green onions, chopped, for garnish

Things To Grab

  • 6-quart slow cooker
  • Potato masher or electric hand mixer

Directions

  1. Place potatoes in a 6-quart slow cooker. Add vegetable stock, butter, garlic, and bay leaves. Stir to combine.

  2. Cover; cook on HIGH for 4 to 4-1/2 hours or LOW for 7 to 8 hours or until very tender. Drain, reserving 1 cup cooking liquid. Discard bay leaves. Return potatoes to slow cooker. Mash with a potato masher or whip with an electric hand mixer.

  3. Add cream cheese, milk, salt, and pepper. Mix until smooth, adding enough reserved cooking liquid as needed. Transfer to a serving bowl. Sprinkle with blue cheese crumbles and garnish with green onions, if desired.

Nutrition facts

Servings

240 Calories per serving
3/4 c.

Amounts Per Serving

  • Total Fat: 8g
  • Cholesterol: 25mg
  • Sodium: 630mg
  • Total Carbohydrates: 36g
  • Protein: 8g

Daily Values

0%
Iron 6%
0%
Calcium 10%
0%
Vitamin D 0%
0%
Potassium 20%

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Hy-Vee Seasons November 2021