Best Creamy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes (Vegan)

Name: Best Vegan Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 18 min
Cuisine: Pacific North West
Ingredients: 6 to 8 Yukon potatoes, peel and rough chopped; 1 cup chicken stock or vegetable stock (vegan option); 4 cloves garlic; 2 tbsp butter or vegan butter (such as Flora Salted Plant Butter), room temperature; 1/4 C heavy cream, milk or milk alternative like oat milk (vegan option); salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 1/4 C fresh chives or cilantro, garnishing (optional)

Oct 1, 2021 · 58 Comments

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The Best Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes (Vegan) are silky, smooth and fluffy in under 30 minutes! I use this quick and easy recipe every Thanksgiving holiday, and all my guests love it! It is so delicious whether you like your creamy mashed potatoes skin on or off!

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In This Post: Everything You'll Need For Making Vegan Mashed Potatoes Creamy
What is the Best Kind Potato for Mashed Potatoes?
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Cooking Tips
What Can I Substitute for Milk and Heavy Cream?
What to Add to Mashed Potatoes for Flavour?
How to Make the Best Pressure Cooker Mashed Potatoes
What Goes With Mashed Potatoes
Best Vegan Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

What is the Best Kind Potato for Mashed Potatoes?

Yukon Gold potatoes are the best for mashed potatoes. But I have had many successes using Russet Potatoes as well. We do not particularly like red potatoes but will use them if that's the only thing we have.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Cooking Tips

You can peel or potatoes or leave the skin on
This easy pressure cooker mashed potatoes without steamer basket is ready in under 30 minutes
You can add any flavours to your mashed potatoes.
Instead of cooking the potatoes in water, cook your potatoes in chicken broth or vegetable broth for the vegan mashed potato option. The potato will absorb all the flavour!
Substitute heavy cream for milk and add melted butter for a super creamy masher.
For plant-based Vegan Thanksgiving recipe, use oat milk or soy milk instead. Oat milk mashed potatoes are so creamy and velvety!
Avoid using too much liquid.
Push the potatoes through a fine mesh sieve to render the smoothest, fluffiest potatoes ever!
Masher will yield chunkier mash potatoes.
Fold in the liquid once your potatoes are mashed to avoid over mixing.

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Although this recipe is not a no drain instant pot mashed potatoes recipe, it is very easy to make and very delicious.

What Can I Substitute for Milk and Heavy Cream?

The best substitute for a dairy-free mashed potato vegan alternative is a neutral-tasting milk substitute like oat milk or soy milk for a plant-based vegan Thanksgiving recipe. My mashed potatoes had a funny taste and mealy texture when we tried almond milk, and coconut milk is too fragrant and tropically. You can also skip using nut milk and use vegetable stock.

Your vegetarian mashed potatoes will still turn out super creamy, silky and luxurious!

What to Add to Mashed Potatoes for Flavour?

You can pick any herbs that you like.
Garlic is nice. Garlic mashed potatoes are my favourite; Lemon garlic is a close second. Cheesy mashed potatoes are also very good with kids.
Mashed baked potatoes with chives and green onions are also very nice.
Herbs such as cilantro, parsley, oregano, sage, or thyme are just some of fresh herbs to use.
Butter.

How to Make the Best Pressure Cooker Mashed Potatoes

After the potatoes are washed, scrubbed and peeled, add the potatoes in the Instant Pot with salt and chicken stock. Pressure cook on high for 8 minutes and quick release.

For traditional mashed potatoes that are not vegan, you can replace the Instant Pot mashed potatoes with chicken broth with vegetable broth instead.

What Goes With Mashed Potatoes

The best mains to serve with mashed potatoes:

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The Best Vegan Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are creamy and silky, smooth and fluffy in under 30 minutes! I use this quick and easy recipe every Thanksgiving holiday, and all my guests love it! It is so delicious whether you like your Instant Pot mashed potatoes skin on or off!

Author: Nancy
Prep Time: 10
Cook Time: 8
Total Time: 18 minutes
Yield: 2-4 persons 1x
Category: Appetizers, Snacks
Method: Instant Pot
Cuisine: Pacific North West, Canadian
Diet: Vegan

Ingredients

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6 to 8 Yukon potatoes, peel and rough chopped
1 cup chicken stock or vegetable stock (vegan option)
4 cloves garlic
2 tbsp butter or vegan butter (such as Flora Salted Plant Butter), room temperature
¼ C heavy cream, milk or milk alternative like oat milk (vegan option)
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
¼ C fresh chives or cilantro, garnishing (optional)

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Instructions

Wash and peel potatoes. (see notes)
Add potatoes, chicken stock or vegetable stock, garlic into the Instant Pot pressure cooker.
Close and lock the Instant Pot cover and set pressure cook on high for 8 minutes followed by quick release.
Carefully remove the potatoes from the Instant Pot. Drain excess liquid.
Push the potatoes through a fine-mesh sieve or smash with a masher.
If the potatoes feel dry, fold in a tablespoon of the vegetable stock or chicken stock
Fold in room temperature butter, salt and pepper.
Garnish with fresh herbs or butter.
Serve hot and enjoy!

Notes

For creamier mashed potatoes, remove the potato skin.

Push the potatoes through a fine mesh sieve to render the smoothest, fluffiest potatoes ever!

I use an 8 quart Instant Pot Duo.

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 bowl
Calories: 214
Sugar: 2.8 g
Sodium: 794.1 mg
Fat: 3.3 g
Carbohydrates: 42.2 g
Protein: 5.1 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg

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