Easy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

This Easy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe is quick and delicious! With simple ingredients, save room in your oven this Thanksgiving by making this popular dish in your pressure cooker!

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Hi friends! Give me all the Thanksgiving sides! Seriously, some people are at Thanksgiving for the turkey or ham, I’m there for the sides! And creamy mashed potatoes with gravy are top on my list. But there are so many sides to be made that we’re doing what we can this year to make your lives easier in the kitchen! And you know one of the best ways to do that? With a handy dandy Instant Pot!

Can you cook Potatoes in an Instant Pot? Why, yes you can! I seriously love this appliance so much, especially for busy weeknight meals AND to make big meals like Thanksgiving a little bit easier. You know you’re going to have that oven cranking and trying to coordinate the turkey and all the sides can be daunting. So let’s see what we can do to make that just a little bit easier.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Ingredients

There’s nothing like delicious mashed potatoes! Since there are so few ingredients in this recipe, my advice is to find the best potatoes you can. How do you pick good potatoes? Here are some things to avoid: cuts and blemishes, dark spots or bruises, wrinkled skin or green skin.

• Russet potatoes
• Butter
• Sour cream
• Milk
• Salt and pepper

How to Make an Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

Place peeled potatoes in a steamer basket in inner pot. Add water. Close the instant pot lid and turn pressure valve to seal. Cook on manual high pressure for 10 minutes. Allow for a quick pressure release. Remove steamer basket, discard remaining water and add cooked potatoes back to the Instant Pot bowl.

Now add the butter, sour cream and milk and mash right in the Instant Pot bowl.

Add whatever spices you like at this point; salt, pepper and chives or parsley and your Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are ready to go!

Tools used to make these Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes:

• Instant Pot: This is one appliance I can’t live without! We cook so many weeknight meals in it and it’s great for cooking meat!
• Instant Pot Steamer Basket: This is a great addition to your Instant Pot accessories! Perfect for cooking potatoes, steaming vegetables and more!
• Potato Masher: Nothing like having a good potato masher! These come in so handy, especially when mashing potatoes in your Instant Pot.

Complete the Meal by Making:

• Easy Instant Pot Turkey
• Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole
• Easy Crock Pot Fried Apples

For More Instant Pot Recipes, Be Sure to Check Out:

• Instant Pot Turkey Chili
• Instant Pot Wendy’s Copycat Chili
• Instant Pot Sweet and Spicy Meatballs

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Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 pounds potatoes
• 1 cup water
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• ½ cup milk
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Place peeled potatoes in a steamer basket in inner pot. Add water.
2. Close the instant pot lid and turn pressure valve to seal. Cook on manual high pressure for 10 minutes.
3. Allow for a quick pressure release.
4. Remove steamer basket, discard remaining water and add cooked potatoes back to the Instant Pot bowl.
5. Add butter, sour cream and milk to the potatoes and mash inside the instant pot.
6. Salt and pepper to taste.