Linda's Chunky Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 6 large potatoes, diced into lg. cubes
• 1 large head of garlic, roasted in the oven
• 6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine
• 1 cup sour cream, i use light
• salt
• fresh coarse ground black pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 cut the top of the garlic bulb, and place on the middle rack in the oven. bake until bulbs start to pop out of the skins, about 20-25 minutes.
• 3 after the garlic bulb is roasted in the oven, remove, and squeeze the bulb, and the garlic will pop out of each finger.
• 4 put roasted garlic pieces into a dish, and mash, or chop up fine. set aside.
• 5 meanwhile:.
• 6 while the garlic is roasting, cook potatoes in a lg. pan, just covering with water for about 25 mins., or until fork inserts easliy when inserted. drain well, put cover on, and set aside.
• 7 to drained potatoes, add roasted garlic, butter, sour cream, salt, and pepper.
• 8 mash with a hand masher. i use a rubber spatulda to break up potatoes a little more. you don't want them completely mashed like regular mashed potatoes.
• 9 serve.