Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Instant pot mashed potatoes are hands down the best-mashed potatoes! Easy to make and totally versatile, this will become your new favorite way to make mashed potatoes.
Ingredients
- 5 pounds potatoes scrubbed, peeled, and sliced into chunks
- 2 teaspoons salt divided
- ⅓ cup butter
- ¼ cup sour cream
- ⅓ cup milk
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Put potatoes into the liner of the electric pressure cooker. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Cover with water.
- Cover and seal the electric pressure cooker. Set to cook on “manual” or “pressure cook” for 8 minutes. Carefully release the pressure with a “quick release.”
- Drain the potatoes well. Return to Instant Pot.
- Press potatoes through a potato ricer if using a potato ricer.
- Add butter to the potatoes and allow to melt.
- Add the sour cream, milk, garlic and pepper.
- Mix together with a potato masher or hand held mixer.