Fluffy mashed potatoes are a delicious side dish for numerous meals.
In order for it to succeed, however, you need to avoid a certain mistake.
All kinds of delicious dishes and side dishes can be made from potatoes, but one of the most popular is probably the mashed potatoes.
It is traditionally served with sausages, roulades * or meatballs, but depending on your own preferences, it can also be used as a main course.
To ensure that the mashed potatoes have the right consistency, you need to use the right tools during preparation.
Make mashed potatoes - just not with the hand blender
Even if it may be less work, you shouldn't use a hand blender to make mashed potatoes.
The hand blender ensures that the pulp has a
sticky and sticky consistency
that quickly destroys the
culinary
delights.
This is because potatoes contain a lot of starch - in the case of waxy, predominantly waxy and floury boiling potatoes, it is between nine and 18 percent, according to the Thuringian State Agency for Agriculture (TLL).
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The main component of the starch granules is 70 to 80 percent
amylopectin
, which consists of
large, highly branched molecules
.
The second largest share with approximately 20 to 30 percent is composed of
long, unbranched molecular chains
existing
amylose
.
The latter ensures the
smoothness of the mashed potatoes
.
When pureing with a hand blender, however, these long starch chains and protein cells are destroyed, so that the potato mixture becomes more and more sticky, as the online portal
chip.de
reports.
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How is mashed potatoes properly made?
That is why a
“gentler” process is
needed
: Experts recommend always
mashing
potatoes for a puree
.
You can use a potato masher or a potato press, for example.
Although they also crush some of the starch molecules, they do not destroy them like with a hand blender.
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